Cookie Policy

Last Updated: October 10, 2025

This Cookie Policy explains how Chronicle Oddities (“we,” “us,” and “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at https://chronicleoddities.com (“the Site”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information. This policy should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Chronicle Oddities) are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Site to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Site. Third parties serve cookies through our Site for advertising, analytics, and other purposes.

Specifically, we use cookies for:

Affiliate Marketing: To track referrals to our partner sites (like travel booking platforms, Amazon, etc.) so we can earn commission on the sales you make. This is fundamental to our business model.
Analytics: To understand how visitors interact with our Site, helping us improve its structure and content.
Site Performance: To ensure the website functions correctly and to remember your preferences.
Advertising: To build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other websites.

What types of cookies do we use?

The table below details the types of cookies we use and why we use them.

Type of Cookie	Who Serves These Cookies	How to Refuse
Strictly Necessary Cookies These are required for the website to function and cannot be switched off. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.	Chronicle Oddities	These cannot be refused as they are essential for the site to work. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work.
Performance / Analytics Cookies These allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.	Google Analytics (Third-Party)	To refuse these cookies, you can: – Use our cookie preference settings (if implemented). – Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. – Use the refusal links in the “Third-Party Cookies” section below.
Functionality Cookies These enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization, such as remembering your name or language preference.	Chronicle Oddities	These can be disabled through your browser settings, but may affect site functionality.
Targeting / Advertising Cookies These cookies are set through our site by our advertising and affiliate partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. They work by uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.	Google AdSense / DoubleClick CJ Affiliate Amazon Associates (Third-Party)	To refuse these cookies, you can: – Use our cookie preference settings (if implemented). – Use the refusal links in the “Third-Party Cookies” section below. – Visit YourAdChoices or Your Online Choices.
Affiliate Tracking Cookies These are essential for our business model. They are placed by our affiliate partners (CJ, Amazon, travel networks) when you click a product or travel link on our site. They track the sale and allow us to receive a commission. They do not store personal information but identify that you came from our site.	CJ Affiliate Amazon Associates Travel Affiliate Networks (Third-Party)	These can generally only be refused by not clicking on our affiliate links. Blocking them will prevent us from earning a commission from your purchases, which supports our site.

Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on. The following are examples of third-party cookies we use:

Google Analytics: One of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
CJ Affiliate: Tracks clicks and conversions from our affiliate links to various merchants. View CJ’s Privacy Policy.
Amazon Associates: Tracks clicks and purchases made on Amazon after you click a link from our site. View Amazon’s Privacy Notice.
Google AdSense & DoubleClick: We use Google AdSense to show ads on our site. Google uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. View Google’s Advertising Policy.

How can you control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by:

1. Browser Controls

You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.

For example:

2. Third-Party Opt-Outs

You can opt-out of third-party advertising cookies and similar technologies via the following links:

Note: If you use multiple devices or browsers, you will need to opt-out on each one.

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our Site or opened an e-mail that we have sent them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Site to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the Site from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

Do you serve targeted advertising?

Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Site. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. This can be accomplished by them using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details, or other personally identifying details unless you choose to provide these.

How often will you update this Cookie Policy?

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.