Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
Effective date: August 20, 2026
Last updated: August 20, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how BrettWy.com ("BrettWy," "we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit BrettWy.com (the "Site"). It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your browser or device. They can help a website function, remember preferences, protect forms, understand general usage, and support third-party services.
Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, local storage, scripts, and server logs. In this policy, we refer to these technologies collectively as “cookies” unless a distinction is necessary.
2. How BrettWy Uses Cookies
BrettWy is a WordPress-based educational website. At present, the Site provides educational articles, website navigation, contact information, and an email sign-up form. Cookies or similar technologies may be used to:
- operate and secure the Site;
- support WordPress and essential website functionality;
- prevent spam, abuse, and unauthorized activity;
- process newsletter and resource sign-up forms;
- remember cookie or website preferences;
- diagnose errors and maintain website performance; and
- produce limited, aggregated information about Site usage when an analytics service is enabled.
BrettWy does not use cookies to access your cryptocurrency wallet, private keys, seed phrase, account passwords, or digital assets. Never provide this information through the Site, an email form, or a message.
3. Categories of Cookies
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies support functions required for the Site to operate safely and correctly. They may be used for security, network management, form processing, spam prevention, preference storage, and other essential WordPress functions. Because the Site may not work properly without them, these cookies generally cannot be disabled through a consent tool.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies may remember choices you make so the Site can provide improved or more consistent functionality. If these cookies are optional under applicable law, they will be handled according to the available consent controls.
Analytics Cookies
If analytics is enabled, these cookies may help us understand how visitors find and use the Site, which pages are visited, and whether technical problems occur. Analytics information may include an IP address, approximate location, browser type, device type, referring page, pages viewed, and visit times.
Where applicable law requires consent, optional analytics cookies should not be activated until you provide that consent.
Marketing and Affiliate Cookies
BrettWy may publish affiliate links in current or future content. When you select an affiliate link, the third-party merchant or affiliate network may set its own cookies to identify the referral and determine whether BrettWy may receive compensation. Those cookies are controlled by the applicable third party, not BrettWy.
If BrettWy later enables advertising pixels, retargeting, or other marketing cookies directly on the Site, this policy and the Site’s consent controls will be updated as appropriate.
Embedded-Content Cookies
Pages may link to or, in the future, display content from third parties such as video platforms or social networks. Embedded content can behave as though you visited the third party directly and may allow that provider to set cookies. Where required, optional embedded content should remain blocked until you provide consent.
4. Current Cookie and Technology Summary
The exact cookie names and durations may change when WordPress, the website theme, plugins, hosting services, security tools, or the newsletter provider are updated. The following table reflects the functions currently associated with the Site based on its visible features. It does not claim that every listed technology sets a cookie during every visit.
| Service or function | Purpose | Category | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress and Site operation | Supports essential website functions, security, and technical operation. | Strictly necessary | Session or as configured |
| Security and spam prevention | Helps protect forms and the Site from abuse, malicious traffic, and unauthorized activity. | Strictly necessary | Session or as configured |
| Cookie or website preferences | Remembers the visitor’s selected preferences. | Strictly necessary or functionality | As configured by the preference tool |
| Email sign-up form | Processes newsletter or educational-resource subscription requests and helps protect the form from misuse. | Strictly necessary or functionality | Session or as configured by the email provider |
| Server logs | Records limited technical information for security, troubleshooting, and Site operation. Server logs are not browser cookies but are disclosed here for transparency. | Essential technology | According to hosting and security settings |
This is an interim functional summary, not a substitute for a technical cookie scan. BrettWy will revise this table when a verified inventory identifies specific cookie names, providers, and retention periods.
5. Third-Party Cookies
Some Site functions may be provided by third parties, such as hosting, security, newsletter delivery, spam prevention, analytics, embedded content, or affiliate services. A third party may collect information or set cookies according to its own privacy and cookie policies.
BrettWy does not control cookies placed after you leave the Site or independently interact with a third-party website. Review the third party’s policies before submitting information or using its services.
6. Your Cookie Choices
Where a cookie-settings tool is available, you can use it to accept, reject, or adjust optional cookie categories. Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they support essential Site functions.
You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
- view stored cookies;
- delete some or all cookies;
- block cookies from particular websites;
- block third-party cookies; or
- receive a notice before a cookie is stored.
Blocking strictly necessary cookies may cause forms, preferences, security features, or other parts of the Site to stop working correctly.
7. Consent
Where applicable law requires consent, BrettWy will seek consent before activating non-essential cookies directly through the Site. Consent should be voluntary, specific, informed, and capable of being withdrawn.
You may withdraw or change your consent through the Site’s cookie-settings tool when that option is available. You may also clear stored cookies through your browser. Clearing cookies may remove previously saved preferences.
8. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when website features, plugins, service providers, cookies, or legal requirements change. The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date. Material changes may also be communicated through the Site or consent tool when appropriate.
9. Contact Us
If you have a question about this Cookie Policy or BrettWy’s use of cookies, contact:
BrettWy.com
Email: info@brettwy.com
Website: https://brettwy.com/