Cookie notice

Writer uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (collectively “Cookies”) when you use any of the Writer websites or services (collectively the “Services”). This Notice explains what Cookies are, how we use them, and your choices regarding them. We use information we collect about you through Cookies in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

What Cookies Are and How We Use Them

Cookies are small text files that are automatically downloaded to your browser or device when you visit a webpage. Cookies can perform a variety of functions, including recognizing you when you return to the Services, letting you navigate between webpages efficiently, remembering your preferences, delivering certain features of the Services, securing the Services, helping us understand how you use the Services, and generally helping us improve your experience with the Services. We and our vendors use Cookies for these and other purposes. We and certain third-party advertising technology vendors also use Cookies to help ensure that the online ads you see are more relevant to you and your interests. As part of how they work, Cookies can send data to us, to the party that provides the Cookie, and/or to other parties as relevant, depending on the purpose of the Cookie.

Types of Cookies We Use

We use four types of Cookies.

• Strictly Necessary Cookies. These Cookies are required for our Services to operate. For example, these Cookies enable you to log in to your account or use a shopping cart. The Services cannot function without Strictly Necessary Cookies, and you cannot opt out of them.
• Functional Cookies. These Cookies allow our Services to provide enhanced functionality and personalization but are not strictly necessary. For example, these Cookies can remember your login information, preferences, and settings, so you don’t have to enter your login information or set your preferences every time you use the Services. These Cookies can also remember if you’ve used any of our Services before, limit the number of times you are shown a particular advertisement, provide a consistent user experience when we test different features, and enable you to view videos through the Services. If you disable these Cookies, certain features of the Services may not be available or function as intended.
• Performance Cookies. These Cookies collect information about usage of the Services, including by counting website visitors and tracking their actions on our website (e.g., what links are clicked and what pages are viewed most often). These Cookies help us collect and analyze usage information to understand how the Services are used; engage in auditing, research, or reporting; take measures to prevent fraud; and provide certain features to you. We may also use these Cookies in our emails to you to capture data such as when you open the email or click any links or banners in the email.
• Targeting Cookies. These Cookies record visits and actions taken on the Services to help advertise the Services to you, including to make the online ads you see more relevant to you (called “tailored advertising”). We and certain third-party advertising technology partners (such as ad networks and ad servers) may use this information to make our websites, content, and online ads more relevant to you and your interests. These Cookies also limit the number of times you see a particular online ad as well as to help measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns.
• Social Media Cookies: These Cookies are used when information is shared through a social media sharing button or “like” button on our Services, or when you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter, or Snapchat.

How Long Cookies Last

We may use both “session Cookies” and “persistent Cookies.” Session Cookies operate during the time you visit our Services or until the end of a particular web browsing session, and they expire and are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Persistent Cookies do not expire when you close your browser. They remain on your browser or device until the time they expire (which varies by Cookie) or until you delete them (e.g., through your browser settings).

Third-Party Cookies

Certain third parties may also use Cookies on our Services. These third parties include, for example, certain analytics providers that help us understand use of the Services and certain advertising technology partners that help us serve online ads. 

Among other analytics providers, Google Analytics helps us analyze how our Services are used. For example, by collecting and analyzing website usage information through its Cookies, Google Analytics can tell us which pages our users view, which are most popular, what time of day our websites are visited, whether visitors have been to our websites before, what website referred the visitor to our websites, and other similar information. 

We have little control over these “third party” Cookies, so we suggest that you check these third parties’ privacy policies to help you understand how these third parties collect and use data about you.

Your Cookie Choices

You can manage what Cookies are set on your browser or device as listed below. Please keep in mind that if you disable certain Cookies, the Services or certain features may not be available to you or may not function as intended. Also, if you use different devices to view and access the Services (i.e., your computer, phone, tablet etc.), you may need to adjust the setting on each browser on each individual device, and/or the settings on each device, to reflect your Cookie preferences.

Your options for managing Cookies include:

• Browser and Device Settings. You may be able to configure your browser or device to refuse some or all Cookies or notify you when a Cookie is being set. You may be able to remove Cookies that are on your browser or device. For more information, please see the “help” or “settings” menu of your browser or device.
• On the Services. To set your Cookie preferences on our Services, please click here: manage settings.
• Google Analytics Opt-Out. To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by clicking here.
• Advertising Cookie Opt-Outs. For more information about tailored advertising and how you can generally control Cookies from being put on your device to deliver tailored advertising: the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out link, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Opt-Out link, or Your Online Choices. These websites allow you to opt out of Advertising Cookies being placed on your browser or device by companies that participate in the opt-out mechanisms run by these sites. See each website for more information.

Changes to This Notice

We may update this Notice from time to time. When we do, we will post an updated version on this page, unless another type of notice is required by applicable law. By continuing to use our Services, you are confirming that you have read and understood the latest version of this Notice.

Contact Information

If you have questions about how we use Cookies, you may contact us at privacy@writer.com or at our mailing address as follows: 140 Geary St #800, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA.