Last updated: September 5, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how The Honest Story USA, available at https://thehoneststoryusa.com/, uses cookies and similar technologies.
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, phone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies help websites operate correctly, remember visitor preferences, understand how visitors use the website, prevent fraud, measure performance, and deliver relevant advertisements.
Cookies may be:
- Session cookies: Deleted when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies: Remain on your device until they expire or you delete them.
- First-party cookies: Placed by The Honest Story USA.
- Third-party cookies: Placed by external services, such as advertising or analytics providers.
How We Use Cookies
The Honest Story USA and its service providers may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Essential Cookies
These cookies support important website functions, including security, page navigation, fraud prevention, network management, and access to website features.
The website may not function correctly without these cookies.
Preference Cookies
These cookies remember choices such as language, display settings, cookie preferences, and other customized features.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website. They may collect information about:
- Pages visited;
- Time spent on the website;
- Referring websites;
- Browser and device types;
- Approximate location;
- Links or features used; and
- Technical errors.
We may use this information to measure traffic, understand audience interests, and improve our content and website performance.
Advertising Cookies
Advertising cookies may be used to:
- Display advertisements;
- Personalize advertisements where permitted;
- Limit how often an advertisement appears;
- Measure advertising performance;
- Detect invalid traffic, fraud, and abuse; and
- Produce aggregated advertising reports.
Google AdSense
We may use Google AdSense to display advertisements on The Honest Story USA.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to this website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its advertising partners to serve advertisements based on visits to our website and other websites on the Internet.
You may manage or opt out of personalized Google advertising through Google’s My Ad Center:
https://myadcenter.google.com/
You can learn how Google uses information from websites and applications that use its services at:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Additional advertising opt-out options may be available at:
https://www.aboutads.info/choices/
Other Advertising Partners
Other advertising providers may use cookies, tracking pixels, web beacons, or similar technologies in advertisements displayed on our website.
These technologies may automatically collect information such as your IP address, device type, browser type, approximate location, and interaction with advertisements.
The Honest Story USA does not directly control cookies placed by third-party advertising providers. Please review each provider’s privacy and cookie policies for more information.
Personalized and Non-Personalized Ads
Depending on your location, consent choices, and applicable law, you may receive personalized or non-personalized advertisements.
Personalized advertisements may be based on your interests, browsing activity, approximate location, or previous interactions.
Non-personalized advertisements are generally based on contextual information, such as the content you are viewing or your general location. Non-personalized ads may still use cookies for fraud prevention, frequency control, aggregated reporting, and advertising measurement.
Consent for Cookies
Where required by law, we will request your consent before placing non-essential cookies on your device.
Visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland may be shown a consent message that allows them to:
- Accept available cookie purposes;
- Reject non-essential cookies;
- Review advertising partners;
- Manage personalized advertising choices; and
- Change or withdraw consent.
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
If a Privacy and Cookie Settings link appears on our website, you may use it to review or change your choices.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most browsers allow you to view, block, or delete cookies through their settings.
You may be able to:
- Block all cookies;
- Block third-party cookies;
- Delete existing cookies;
- Receive a warning before cookies are stored; or
- Clear cookies when the browser closes.
If you disable cookies, certain website features may not work correctly. Cookie controls vary by browser and device, so consult your browser’s help documentation for instructions.
Do Not Track and Privacy Signals
Some browsers send “Do Not Track” or other privacy preference signals.
Because there is no single universally accepted standard for every privacy signal, our response may depend on applicable law, browser capabilities, and the services operating on our website.
Where legally required and technically supported, we will process applicable opt-out preference signals.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when our technology, service providers, advertising practices, or legal obligations change.
The updated policy will be published on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, contact us:
Website: https://thehoneststoryusa.com/
Email: thehoneststoryusa@gmail.com