What Is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer, phone, tablet, or another connected device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow a website to recognize a browser or device. That recognition can help the website remember a setting, keep a form working between pages, protect against suspicious activity, or understand how visitors move through the site.
Some cookies disappear when you close your browser. These are called session cookies.
Others remain on your device for a set period or until you remove them. These are called persistent cookies.
A cookie does not always identify you by name. It may instead recognize a browser or device through a randomly generated identifier.
Cookies Are Not the Only Technology Involved
Websites can also use pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, software development kits, and device identifiers to perform similar functions.
The technology may be different, but the purpose is often familiar: keeping a website working, remembering a choice, measuring performance, or understanding an interaction.
To keep this policy readable, we use the word “cookies” to include these related technologies where appropriate.
Why READTYCH Uses Cookies
We want the READTYCH website to work properly, feel straightforward to use, and give visitors useful information without unnecessary friction.
Cookies may help us:
- Keep the website available, stable, and secure.
- Remember the privacy choices you have made.
- Maintain your progress while you complete a multi-step form.
- Understand how visitors find and use different pages.
- Find broken links, slow pages, and technical errors.
- Learn which content visitors find useful.
- Measure the response to READTYCH communications or campaigns.
- Support contact forms, demo requests, pilot applications, and other inquiries.
Not every cookie serves the same purpose. Some are required for the website to function. Others are optional and depend on your choices.
READTYCH does not use website cookies to make academic decisions about students.
Cookies the Website May Use
Cookies That Keep the Website Working
Some cookies are necessary simply to provide the website.
They can help pages load, protect forms, maintain security, manage website traffic, remember your cookie preferences, and support features you have chosen to use.
Without these cookies, parts of the website may stop working properly. For that reason, they usually cannot be switched off through the READTYCH cookie preference controls.
You can still ask your browser to block them. If you do, forms, saved choices, security features, or other parts of the website may not function as expected.
Cookies That Remember Your Choices
A website feels easier to use when it remembers a choice you have already made.
Functional cookies may remember your language, region, display settings, accessibility preferences, or progress through a form. They can save you from entering or selecting the same information every time you move between pages.
If you decline these cookies, the website will still be available, but some convenience features may behave differently.
Cookies That Help Us Improve the Website
Analytics and performance cookies help us understand the website from a visitor’s point of view.
They can show us which pages receive the most visits, how people move between sections, how long pages take to load, and where visitors leave the site. They may also help us identify errors that are difficult to reproduce during routine testing.
The information can include pages visited, links selected, approximate location, browser type, device type, operating system, visit duration, and the website that led you to READTYCH.
We use these insights to improve content, simplify website journeys, and resolve technical problems.
Where the law requires consent for analytics cookies, we will ask before using them.
Cookies That Measure Campaigns
READTYCH may communicate with educators, institutions, researchers, technology partners, and other people interested in the future of learning.
Campaign measurement cookies can help us understand whether one of those communications led someone to visit a relevant page, request more information, or begin a pilot application.
They may also help prevent the same message from appearing repeatedly.
Some advertising or campaign technologies can recognize a browser across different websites. Where these technologies are used, we will provide the choices required by applicable law.
Declining optional advertising cookies will not prevent you from reading the READTYCH website or contacting our team.
Cookies Used by Embedded Features
A READTYCH page may include a video, map, scheduling feature, form, social media element, or another tool supplied by a third party.
Opening or interacting with that content may allow the provider to place its own cookies or receive information about your browser and device.
For example, a video provider may need to know that the video was loaded, while a form provider may need cookies to protect the form from misuse.
Where appropriate, nonessential embedded features may remain inactive until you make a cookie choice.
Its own privacy and cookie policies also govern the third party’s handling of information.
Who Places the Cookies?
Some cookies are placed by READTYCH or by a provider working directly on our behalf. These are generally known as first-party cookies.
Other cookies are placed by outside services that support the website. These are known as third-party cookies.
A third-party provider may help with website security, analytics, video hosting, form processing, communications, scheduling, or campaign measurement.
The particular cookies used by the website can change as READTYCH develops its services or works with different technology providers. When available, the cookie preference tool will show the current categories of optional cookies in use.
What Information Can Cookies Collect?
The information depends on the cookie and why it is being used.
It may include:
- Your internet protocol address.
- The browser and device you are using.
- Your operating system and language settings.
- Your approximate city, state, region, or country.
- The date and time of your visit.
- The pages you open.
- The links or buttons you select.
- The amount of time spent on a page.
- The website or page that referred you to READTYCH.
- Loading times, error messages, and other performance information.
- Your cookie consent choices.
- A randomly generated browser or device identifier.
If you choose to submit a contact form, demo request, or pilot application, some website activity may be associated with the information you provide. We explain the broader handling of that information in our Privacy Policy.
Cookies and Student Information
READTYCH is building technology for education, so the difference between an ordinary website visitor and a student using an institutional learning platform matters.
This Cookie Policy primarily covers the public READTYCH website.
READTYCH does not use public website cookies to determine a student’s grades, ability, eligibility, or access to an educational opportunity. We also do not knowingly use these cookies to deliver behaviorally targeted advertising to children.
Future use of the READTYCH Digital Book or education platform by a school, district, university, education department, or another institution may be governed by additional product notices, institutional agreements, privacy settings, and legal requirements.
Those product-specific practices will not be governed by this public website Cookie Policy alone.
Your Cookie Choices
You should be able to understand and control the optional technologies used during your visit.
Use the READTYCH Cookie Preference Tool
Where available, the READTYCH cookie preference tool allows you to accept, reject, or manage categories of optional cookies.
Cookies needed to operate and secure the website will remain active.
You can return to the preference tool later if you change your mind.
Change Your Browser Settings
Most browsers include controls for cookies.
Depending on the browser you use, you may be able to see which cookies are stored, remove existing cookies, block third-party cookies, block cookies from selected websites, or ask the browser to warn you before accepting one.
You may also be able to delete cookies automatically whenever the browser closes.
The location of these controls differs between browsers. You can usually find them under Privacy, Security, Site Settings, or a similarly named section.
Blocking every cookie can make some parts of the website less reliable. A form may lose your progress, a preference may need to be selected again, or a security feature may not recognize the current session.
Review Your Device Settings
Phones, tablets, and other connected devices may provide additional controls for advertising identifiers, location access, application tracking, and related information.
These options are usually available in the device’s privacy or security settings.
Browser Privacy Signals
Some browsers and browser extensions can send an opt-out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control.
Where applicable law requires us to recognize a supported signal, READTYCH will treat it as a request to opt out of covered selling or sharing associated with that browser or device.
These signals usually apply only to the browser and device from which they are sent. If you use several browsers or devices, you may need to enable the setting separately on each one.
Giving or Withdrawing Consent
Where consent is required, READTYCH will provide a choice before using nonessential cookies.
Accepting optional cookies is not a condition of reading the website. You can decline them and still explore READTYCH, review product information, and contact the team.
Some optional features may behave differently if the cookies supporting them are turned off.
You can change or withdraw your consent through the cookie preference tool.
A new preference generally controls what happens from that point forward. It may not remove cookies already stored on your device. You can delete those through your browser settings.
How Long Do Cookies Stay on Your Device?
Some cookies last only for the current visit and disappear when the browser closes.
Others remain for a defined period so the website can remember a choice, recognize a returning browser, protect a service, or measure activity over time.
The exact period varies according to the cookie’s purpose.
READTYCH aims to keep cookie information only for as long as it remains reasonably necessary for its intended purpose or as required for security, technical, contractual, or legal reasons.
You can remove stored cookies at any time through your browser.
Selling or Sharing Personal Information
READTYCH does not sell personal information in exchange for money.
Privacy laws in some states use broader definitions of “sale” or “sharing.” Under those laws, certain advertising, analytics, or cross-site tracking activities may be treated as selling, sharing, or targeted advertising even when no payment changes hands.
If READTYCH uses a technology covered by one of these definitions, eligible visitors can exercise their rights through the cookie preference tool, a supported browser privacy signal, or the request methods described in our Privacy Policy.
Third-Party Services
Outside providers may handle information under their own privacy policies and terms.
READTYCH does not control every decision made by an independent third party after information reaches that provider. We encourage you to review the privacy information supplied by any external service you choose to use.
When selecting providers, READTYCH considers the purpose of the service, the information involved, and the access required to perform that service. Providers should receive only the access reasonably needed for their work.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
The READTYCH website will continue to develop. The technologies supporting it may change too.
We may update this Cookie Policy when we add or remove website features, change providers, improve our privacy practices, or respond to new legal requirements.
The date at the beginning of the policy will show when it was last updated.
If a change meaningfully affects how optional cookies are used, we may provide additional notice or ask you to make a new choice where required.
Questions About Cookies?
Privacy language can sometimes make a simple question feel unnecessarily complicated. If something in this policy is unclear, you are welcome to ask us about it.
You can contact READTYCH through our Contact page.
You may also want to read:
- Privacy Policy
- Terms of Use
- Privacy and Student Data
- Trust Center