Cookie Policy

Last Updated: September 9, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how ReneeOwens.com may use cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with the website.

It should be read together with the Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how personal information may be collected, used, stored, and shared.

What Is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of information stored by your web browser when you visit a website. Cookies can help a website recognize your browser, remember choices, maintain login sessions, preserve shopping-cart contents, provide security, and understand how visitors use the site.

Some cookies last only until you close your browser. These are commonly called session cookies. Others remain for a defined period or until you delete them. These are commonly called persistent cookies.

Similar Technologies

ReneeOwens.com and independent services used by the website may also use technologies that perform functions similar to cookies, including:

• Local browser storage
• Pixels and tracking tags
• Embedded scripts
• Session identifiers
• Referral codes
• Server logs
• Device and browser information

Some technologies can collect information even when traditional browser cookies are blocked.

First-Party & Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are placed by ReneeOwens.com or its website software. They may support functions such as login sessions, comments, consent preferences, security, shopping carts, and account features.

Third-party cookies are placed or controlled by an independent service whose content, tools, or features appear on the website. These may include analytics providers, video platforms, social networks, payment processors, affiliate programs, and other embedded services.

Third parties control their own cookies according to their respective policies.

Categories of Cookies

Not every category or example is necessarily active during every visit. The cookies used depend upon the pages you view, the choices you make, and the website features currently enabled.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies support the basic operation and security of ReneeOwens.com.

They may be used to:

• Load and display the website
• Protect forms and accounts from abuse
• Detect suspicious login attempts
• Maintain an authenticated session
• Remember cookie or consent choices
• Preserve items placed in a shopping cart
• Support checkout and transaction security
• Balance website traffic or maintain technical stability

Because these cookies are required to provide requested services or protect the website, they may not be controlled through every optional consent setting. You may still block them through your browser, but parts of the website may stop functioning correctly.

Comment Cookies

When comments are enabled and you leave a comment, WordPress or related website tools may offer to remember your name, email address, website, or other comment preferences in cookies.

These cookies are intended as a convenience so you do not need to re-enter the same information when leaving another comment.

Declining or deleting comment cookies should not prevent you from reading public content, although you may need to enter your information again when commenting.

Login & Account Cookies

If you create or use an account, cookies may be used to:

• Authenticate your login
• Keep you signed in during a session
• Remember account display preferences
• Protect restricted account areas
• Support order history, downloads, and recipient features

Logging out may remove or deactivate some session cookies. Other security or preference cookies may remain for a limited period.

Shopping Cart & Checkout Cookies

When shopping features are available, commerce cookies may help the website:

• Remember items placed in your cart
• Associate a cart with a browsing session
• Calculate available shipping or tax options
• Maintain checkout progress
• Prevent duplicate or fraudulent transactions
• Recognize account and order status

Payment providers such as PayPal, Stripe, or another service identified at checkout may set their own cookies or use similar security and fraud-prevention technologies.

Independent payment providers operate under their own privacy and cookie policies.

Mermaid’s Satchel Features

If The Mermaid’s Satchel Project uses accounts, recipient codes, forms, carts, or request-management features, cookies may be used to maintain a session, remember selections, protect access, prevent misuse, or complete the request process.

Blocking necessary cookies may prevent recipient codes, private selections, request forms, or account features from working correctly.

Website Security & Performance

Security, hosting, caching, and performance services may use cookies or related technical information to:

• Distinguish human visitors from automated traffic
• Identify malicious or suspicious behavior
• Limit repeated login attempts
• Prevent spam and form abuse
• Deliver cached pages efficiently
• Diagnose errors and maintain availability

These services may also process IP addresses, browser information, request data, or security logs even when they do not place a traditional cookie.

Analytics & Visitor Statistics

ReneeOwens.com may use analytics or visitor-statistics tools to understand how people discover and use the website.

Analytics information may include:

• Pages and posts viewed
• Approximate visit duration
• Referring websites or search sources
• General geographic region
• Browser, device, and operating-system information
• Links or features used
• New and returning visitor trends

This information helps identify useful content, improve navigation, diagnose technical problems, and understand general website activity.

Analytics providers may use cookies or similar identifiers according to their own policies and configuration.

Embedded Videos & Social Media

Pages and articles may include embedded content from services such as:

• YouTube
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest
• Kick
• Ko-fi
• Patreon
• SketchBox
• Other artists, shops, and creative platforms

When embedded content loads or you interact with it, the originating service may place cookies, receive technical information, or connect the interaction with your account on that service.

This may occur particularly when you are already signed in to the external service.

Some embedded content may remain unavailable until the relevant cookies or privacy preferences are accepted.

Affiliate & Referral Tracking

Some pages, posts, and videos may contain affiliate or referral links.

When you follow one of these links, the destination website or affiliate network may place a cookie, read a referral code, or use another identifier to determine whether a later purchase, subscription, or other action qualifies for credit.

A qualifying action may benefit:

• Renee Owens
• A featured artist
• A teacher or creative community
• A client, friend, or collaborator identified near the link

Additional information is available in the Affiliate & Sponsored Content Disclosure.

Email & Newsletter Services

If newsletter or email-subscription features are offered, the email provider may use cookies, pixels, or similar technologies to:

• Process subscription forms
• Confirm subscription choices
• Deliver requested messages
• Measure whether a message was opened
• Record whether a link was selected
• Maintain unsubscribe preferences

The exact features used will depend upon the email service and its configuration.

How Long Cookies Remain

The duration of a cookie depends upon its purpose and the service that controls it.

A cookie may remain:

• Only for the current browsing session
• Until you log out
• Until a shopping session or transaction is completed
• For the period required to remember a preference
• For the attribution period established by an affiliate program
• Until its scheduled expiration date
• Until you delete it through your browser

Third-party services determine the duration of the cookies they control.

Your Cookie Choices

Where a cookie-consent tool is available, you may be able to accept, decline, or manage certain optional cookie categories.

Your consent selection may itself be stored in a necessary cookie so the website can remember your choice.

You may also use your browser settings to:

• View stored cookies
• Delete existing cookies
• Block all cookies
• Block third-party cookies
• Allow cookies only for selected websites
• Clear cookies when the browser closes

Browser controls vary. Please consult the support information provided by your browser developer for current instructions.

Effects of Blocking Cookies

Blocking or deleting cookies should not prevent you from reading most public articles. However, some features may stop working or may need to be configured again.

Affected features may include:

• Account login
• Comment preferences
• Shopping carts
• Checkout
• Recipient or access codes
• Embedded videos
• Consent preferences
• Security verification
• External payment services

Google Analytics Controls

If Google Analytics is enabled, Google offers a browser add-on intended to prevent supported Google Analytics scripts from using your activity.

You may learn more through the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Browser extensions and third-party privacy tools operate independently from ReneeOwens.com, and I cannot guarantee their compatibility or effectiveness.

YouTube Privacy-Enhanced Embeds

Where practical, YouTube videos may be embedded using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This can limit certain cookie activity before a visitor interacts with the video.

Playing or interacting with an embedded video may still allow YouTube or Google to collect information and use cookies according to their own policies.

Do Not Track & Global Privacy Signals

Some browsers and privacy tools send “Do Not Track,” Global Privacy Control, or similar signals.

Because these signals are not interpreted uniformly by every website and service, ReneeOwens.com and its third-party providers may not respond to every signal in the same manner.

Where applicable law requires recognition of a supported privacy signal, reasonable efforts will be made to honor that requirement.

Third-Party Policies

ReneeOwens.com does not control cookies or similar technologies placed by independent services.

Before interacting with embedded content, external shops, affiliate links, social platforms, payment services, or other third-party features, you may wish to review that provider’s privacy and cookie information.

Disabling cookies through ReneeOwens.com may not remove cookies previously placed by another website. Those cookies may need to be managed through your browser or directly through the applicable service.

Cookie Inventory & Website Changes

The exact cookies used by ReneeOwens.com may change when plugins, security tools, analytics services, embedded content, account features, shop services, or payment providers are added, removed, or updated.

A detailed cookie inventory may be provided through the website’s consent-management tool where available.

This policy describes the purposes and categories of cookies that may reasonably be used. It does not mean that every listed service or category is active at all times.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated as the website, its technology, legal requirements, and available services evolve.

The current version will remain available on this page with its latest revision date.

Contact

Questions or concerns regarding cookies or privacy preferences may be submitted through the Contact page.

Thank you for visiting ReneeOwens.com.

I want the mystery here to remain in the paint, fabric, stories, and curious little treasures, not in the technology quietly working behind the page.

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