This Cookie Notice explains how LRStahley.com, personally owned and operated by Lee Ruckman Stahley, uses cookies and similar technologies to support website features, remember preferences, and understand readership.

Read this notice alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how we handle personal information.

For questions, contact contact@lrstahley.com.

1. What Cookies and Similar Technologies Are

Cookies are small text files a website places on your browser or device. They can help keep you signed in, remember choices, or support other website functions.

Similar technologies include local storage and session storage, which allow a website to retain information in your browser. Local storage may remain until it is cleared, while session storage generally lasts for the browser tab’s session.

In this notice, “cookies and similar technologies” includes these forms of browser storage. Their privacy implications depend on what they contain and how they are used.

2. How We Use These Technologies

The website uses browser storage to support essential functions, remember preferences, and operate first-party page-view analytics.

We do not use advertising cookies or third-party advertising trackers. We do not use our page-view analytics to personalise advertisements.

Our hosting and other service providers may support the technologies needed to deliver website features. First-party analytics does not mean that no service provider processes the information; relevant records may be stored through the platform hosting the website.

3. Essential Website Functions

Essential cookies and similar technologies support functions such as account authentication, security, and maintaining the shopping experience as you navigate the website. Storage used to remember your cookie choices may also be necessary to honour those choices.

Where a technology is strictly necessary to provide a service you request, it may operate without optional cookie consent to the extent permitted by applicable law.

You can block or clear browser storage through your browser settings. However, blocking essential storage may prevent you from signing in, maintaining a shopping session, or using other requested features.

4. Preferences

Some browser storage may remember choices you make so that you do not need to repeat them during later visits.

Whether a preference technology requires consent depends on its purpose and the applicable law. A preference needed to provide a feature you expressly request may be treated differently from storage used merely for convenience.

The website’s cookie controls should identify any optional preference storage available for you to accept or decline.

5. First-Party Analytics

We use first-party analytics to understand which pages readers visit and which content they find useful. Our page-view records include:

• The page visited.
• Referrer information, where available, indicating where a visit originated.
• An anonymous visitor identifier used to distinguish browsers or visitors.

The visitor identifier is not intended to identify you by name. However, an identifier that distinguishes your browser may still qualify as personal information under applicable privacy law.

These analytics help us assess readership and improve website content and navigation. They are not used for advertising tracking.

Where consent is required for optional analytics storage or access, we must obtain it before activating that technology. Your available choices are accessible through Cookie Preferences in the website footer.

6. Your Cookie Choices

You can review and change your choices through the Cookie Preferences link in the website footer.

You may accept or decline the optional technologies presented in those controls. Essential technologies may remain active where needed to provide requested website functions and where permitted by law.

You may withdraw consent for optional technologies at any time. Withdrawing consent affects future use of those technologies; it does not automatically delete information already collected or make earlier processing unlawful.

To request deletion of personal information already held by us, contact contact@lrstahley.com. Requests are handled as described in the Privacy Policy.

Cookie choices generally apply to the browser and device on which you make them. You may need to choose again if you use another browser or device, clear browser storage, or browse in a private session.

7. Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to inspect, block, or delete cookies and other website data through their privacy or security settings.

Deleting cookies alone may not remove all local storage or other website data. Consult your browser’s instructions for clearing all stored data associated with a website.

Clearing website data may sign you out, remove saved preferences, or interrupt your shopping session. It may also remove the record of your cookie choices, requiring you to select them again.

Private browsing does not prevent every form of information processing. The website and its providers may still receive information needed to respond to your requests and operate their services.

8. How Long Information Remains

Different forms of storage have different lifetimes. Session-based storage generally ends with the relevant browser session or tab. Persistent cookies and local storage may remain until they expire, are removed by the website, or are cleared through your browser.

Our page-view logs are intended to be retained for approximately 90 days, as described in the Privacy Policy. This is the retention period for those logs; it does not establish the expiry period of a cookie or browser-stored visitor identifier.

The duration of account, security, shopping, and preference storage depends on the technology and provider involved. Any specific expiry periods published in our cookie controls should reflect the website’s actual configuration.

9. Checkout and External Services

Checkout, payment, authentication, and other requested features may involve third-party service providers. Those providers may use technologies necessary to operate and secure the service you use. Their handling of information is also subject to their applicable privacy and cookie notices.

Following a link to an external bookstore, retailer, or other website takes you to a service with its own practices and controls. Your cookie choices on LRStahley.com do not automatically apply to another website.

Our statement that we do not use advertising cookies describes this website’s practices; it does not describe every external website we link to.

10. Changes to This Notice

We may update this notice to reflect changes in website features, technologies, providers, or legal requirements. The effective date above identifies the latest revision.

If we introduce a new purpose that requires consent, we will seek that consent before using the relevant technology for that purpose.

11. Contact

For questions about cookies, browser storage, or your privacy choices:

Lee Ruckman Stahley — L.R. Stahley

Owner and operator of LRStahley.com

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Email: contact@lrstahley.com