COOKIE POLICY
LAST UPDATED: February 2026
The Regret Wall uses cookies and similar technologies to ensure our digital sanctuary remains functional, secure, and insightful. This policy explains what these technologies are and your rights to control our use of them.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
- First-party cookies are set by The Regret Wall directly.
- Third-party cookies are set by parties other than the website owner, such as Google or Clerk.
2. Why Do We Use Cookies?
We use cookies for several reasons. Some are required for technical reasons in order for our Platform to operate, and we refer to these as 'essential' or 'strictly necessary' cookies.
- Authentication: To keep you logged into your profile.
- Security: To prevent unauthorized access and malicious activity.
- Preferences: To remember your chosen language and theme settings.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Beyond essential cookies, we may use performance and advertising cookies to improve our services.
- Essential Website Cookies: These are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Platform.
- Performance and Functionality Cookies: Used to enhance performance but are non-essential.
- Analytics and Customization Cookies: Help us understand how our Platform is being used (e.g., Google Analytics).
- Advertising Cookies: Used to make advertising messages more relevant to you (e.g., Google AdSense).
4. Third-Party Cookies: Google AdSense & Analytics
We partner with Google to serve advertisements and analyze traffic. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our sites.
- Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners.
- When you visit a partner's website, a cookie may be dropped on your browser.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
5. Controlling and Managing Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies.
- Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.
- If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality may be restricted.
- To find out more about how to manage cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org.
6. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
- Please re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed.
- The date at the top of this policy indicates when it was last updated.