Cookie Policy

Last updated: July 12, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how timothyplivingston.co uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with the website.

The website is owned and operated by Timothy P. Livingston. In this Cookie Policy, “the Site,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to timothyplivingston.co, Timothy P. Livingston, and applicable affiliated businesses and service providers.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides additional information about how personal information may be collected, used, shared, and protected.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies allow a website or third-party service to recognize a browser or device. They may remember information about your visit, such as your preferences, consent selections, pages viewed, advertising interactions, or whether you previously visited the Site.

Cookies may be placed directly by the Site or by third parties whose services appear on the Site.

Cookies do not necessarily identify you by name. However, cookies and similar identifiers may be considered personal information under certain privacy laws, particularly when combined with other device, browser, account, location, or usage information.

2. Similar Technologies

In addition to traditional browser cookies, the Site and its service providers may use similar technologies, including:

  • Pixels
  • Tags
  • Web beacons
  • Tracking links
  • Scripts
  • Local storage
  • Browser storage
  • Software development tools
  • Device identifiers
  • Advertising identifiers
  • Embedded content technologies
  • Server logs

For purposes of this Cookie Policy, references to “cookies” generally include these similar technologies unless otherwise stated.

3. Why We Use Cookies

The Site may use cookies to:

  • Operate and secure the Site
  • Display pages and content correctly
  • Remember visitor preferences
  • Remember cookie-consent choices
  • Support contact forms and comments
  • Prevent fraud, spam, and abuse
  • Understand how visitors find and use the Site
  • Measure article and page performance
  • Improve website design, navigation, and content
  • Display advertisements
  • Measure advertising performance
  • Deliver personalized or non-personalized advertisements
  • Limit how often an advertisement is displayed
  • Track affiliate referrals
  • Support embedded videos and social media content
  • Diagnose technical problems
  • Maintain administrative and account sessions
  • Comply with legal and regulatory obligations

The cookies used during a particular visit may depend on your location, consent choices, browser settings, and the features you interact with.

4. Types of Cookies

Cookies can be classified in several ways.

First-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are placed by timothyplivingston.co.

These cookies may support website operation, security, visitor preferences, comments, administrative logins, consent records, and other Site features.

Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies are placed or controlled by companies other than timothyplivingston.co.

Third-party cookies may be used by:

  • Advertising providers
  • Analytics providers
  • Video platforms
  • Social media platforms
  • Affiliate networks
  • Email service providers
  • Security providers
  • Consent-management providers
  • Website-hosting or performance providers
  • Other embedded services

We do not directly control every third-party cookie. The use of those cookies is governed by the policies of the third party that places or receives information through them.

Session Cookies

Session cookies generally remain active only while your browser is open. They are normally deleted when you close your browser.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies remain on your device after you close your browser. They may remain until they expire, you delete them, or the company that placed them removes them.

The lifespan of a persistent cookie varies depending on its purpose and the settings of the service that placed it.

5. Categories of Cookies We May Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies support essential website functions.

They may be used to:

  • Load and display the Site
  • Maintain website security
  • Detect malicious or fraudulent activity
  • Manage administrative logins
  • Remember consent selections
  • Process forms
  • Balance website traffic
  • Maintain technical stability

The Site may not function properly without these cookies.

Where permitted by law, strictly necessary cookies may be used without consent because they are required to provide a feature or service requested by the visitor.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies allow the Site to remember choices and provide enhanced features.

They may remember:

  • Display preferences
  • Language preferences
  • Previously entered form information
  • Comment information
  • Accessibility preferences
  • Other customized settings

Disabling functional cookies may prevent certain preferences or features from working correctly.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the Site.

They may collect information about:

  • Pages viewed
  • Articles read
  • Time spent on the Site
  • Approximate geographic location
  • Browser and device type
  • Referring websites or platforms
  • Links clicked
  • Website errors
  • Navigation patterns
  • General visitor engagement
  • New and returning visitors

We may use this information to understand which topics are useful to readers, improve website performance, develop new content, and make navigation easier.

Analytics data may be aggregated or associated with a cookie, device, browser, or other identifier.

Depending on your location and consent choices, analytics cookies may not be activated until you provide permission.

Advertising Cookies

The Site may display advertising through Google AdSense or other advertising providers.

Advertising cookies and similar technologies may be used to:

  • Display advertisements
  • Select advertisements relevant to a page
  • Deliver personalized advertisements where permitted
  • Deliver non-personalized advertisements
  • Measure advertising impressions
  • Measure advertisement clicks and interactions
  • Limit how often an advertisement is shown
  • Prevent invalid traffic, fraud, and abuse
  • Estimate advertising effectiveness
  • Create advertising reports
  • Associate activity across websites, applications, or devices

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on your previous visits to this Site or other websites.

Depending on your location, consent settings, browser settings, and the type of advertising being served, advertisements may be personalized using information about your interests or previous browsing activity.

Rejecting personalized-advertising cookies does not necessarily prevent advertisements from appearing. You may instead receive non-personalized or contextual advertisements based on factors such as the content of the page, general location, or time of day.

Affiliate and Referral Cookies

Some articles or pages may contain affiliate links.

When you click an affiliate link, the applicable retailer, affiliate network, or service provider may place a cookie or use another tracking method to determine that your visit or purchase originated from the Site.

Affiliate tracking may record information such as:

  • The link clicked
  • The referring page
  • The date and time of the click
  • A referral or campaign identifier
  • Whether a qualifying purchase or action occurred

This tracking allows the affiliate provider to credit us with a commission or other compensation.

Using an affiliate link generally does not increase the price you pay unless clearly stated otherwise.

Additional information about these relationships is available in our Affiliate Disclosure.

Embedded Content Cookies

The Site may include embedded content from third-party services, including videos, images, social media posts, maps, forms, or other interactive features.

These services may include platforms such as:

  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Other video, social media, or content platforms

Embedded content may operate as though you visited the third-party website directly.

The third party may place cookies or collect information when:

  • The embedded content loads
  • You play a video
  • You interact with a social media post
  • You click a sharing button
  • You are logged into an account with that third party
  • You otherwise interact with the embedded feature

The third party may associate your activity with an existing account or use the information for analytics, advertising, personalization, or security.

Comment Cookies

If commenting is enabled and you leave a comment, the Site may offer to save information such as your name and email address in cookies.

These cookies are intended to make commenting more convenient so you do not have to reenter the same information when leaving another comment.

Comment information may also be processed by spam-detection and website-security services.

Login and Administrative Cookies

WordPress and other website-management tools may use cookies for authenticated users and administrators.

These cookies may:

  • Verify login status
  • Maintain a secure administrative session
  • Remember display preferences
  • protect the website against unauthorized access

Most ordinary visitors will not receive administrative login cookies unless they have an authorized website account or administrative role.

Email and Form Cookies

Contact forms, newsletter forms, and email service providers may use cookies or related technologies to:

  • Process submissions
  • Prevent spam
  • Remember form information
  • Measure signups
  • Determine whether a form has already been displayed
  • Measure engagement with email campaigns
  • Maintain subscription preferences

Submitting a form may also result in information being transmitted to the service provider that processes the form or email subscription.

Security and Fraud-Prevention Cookies

Security providers may place cookies or process device and network information to:

  • Detect bots
  • Block malicious traffic
  • Prevent spam
  • Protect login pages
  • Identify suspicious activity
  • Prevent invalid advertising activity
  • Maintain website availability

These technologies may process an IP address, browser details, device information, request patterns, or security identifiers.

6. Google Services

The Site may use Google services, including Google AdSense and analytics or measurement services.

Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to collect, store, and process information for purposes such as:

  • Delivering advertisements
  • Personalizing advertisements where permitted
  • Measuring advertising performance
  • Measuring website usage
  • Preventing fraud and invalid activity
  • Limiting advertisement frequency
  • Producing reports
  • Improving Google services

Google’s use of advertising cookies may allow Google and its advertising partners to serve advertisements based on visits to this Site and other websites.

You may manage certain personalized-advertising settings through Google’s advertising controls.

You can learn more by reviewing Google’s Privacy Policy, its explanation of how it uses cookies, and its explanation of how information from websites and applications using Google services is processed.

7. Consent Management

The Site may use a consent-management platform or cookie banner to provide information about cookies and allow you to manage certain choices.

Depending on your location, the consent interface may allow you to:

  • Accept all optional cookies
  • Reject optional cookies
  • Manage cookie categories
  • Select advertising preferences
  • Withdraw consent
  • Review participating advertising providers
  • Opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted advertising

Your consent selection may be stored in a cookie or similar record so that the Site can remember your choice.

Where consent is legally required, applicable optional cookies should not be activated until the required consent has been obtained.

The exact choices available may vary depending on your location, applicable law, technology, and the services operating on the Site.

8. European Visitors

Visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and other jurisdictions with similar requirements may be shown a consent message before certain cookies or technologies are used.

Where required, consent may be requested for:

  • Storing or accessing information on a device
  • Analytics
  • Advertising measurement
  • Personalized advertising
  • Processing personal data for advertising
  • Sharing information with advertising providers
  • Other optional technologies

You may withdraw or modify your consent through the Site’s cookie or privacy settings.

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred lawfully before consent was withdrawn.

9. United States Privacy Choices

Certain U.S. state privacy laws may provide residents with rights concerning targeted advertising or broadly defined sales or sharing of personal information.

We do not exchange personal information for money in the ordinary meaning of the word “sell.”

However, some privacy laws may classify the use of advertising cookies, cross-context behavioral advertising, analytics identifiers, or third-party tracking technologies as a “sale,” “sharing,” or use of personal information for targeted advertising.

Where applicable, you may be able to opt out through:

  • The Site’s cookie banner
  • A “Privacy Choices” link
  • A “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link
  • Recognized browser privacy signals
  • Your browser settings
  • Advertising-provider settings
  • An email request to [email protected]

The choices available may depend on your state, browser, device, and the technologies used by the Site.

10. Global Privacy Control

Some browsers and browser extensions transmit a Global Privacy Control signal that communicates a preference to opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information.

Where required by applicable law and supported by the Site’s technology, we will make reasonable efforts to recognize and process applicable preference signals.

These signals are generally specific to the browser and device being used. You may need to enable the signal separately on each browser or device.

11. Managing Cookies Through the Site

Where available, you can change your cookie choices by selecting the Site’s:

  • Cookie Settings
  • Privacy Choices
  • Manage Consent
  • Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

The wording and appearance of this option may vary.

Changing a preference will generally apply to future cookie activity on the browser and device you are currently using.

You may need to repeat your choices when:

  • You use another device
  • You use a different browser
  • You clear browser data
  • The consent cookie expires
  • The Site makes significant changes to its cookie practices

12. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most browsers allow you to view, block, limit, or delete cookies.

Browser controls may allow you to:

  • Block all cookies
  • Block third-party cookies
  • Delete existing cookies
  • Receive a warning before a cookie is placed
  • Clear browsing data when the browser closes
  • Limit cross-site tracking

The exact settings differ among browsers and devices. Review the privacy or cookie section of your browser settings for instructions.

Blocking all cookies may affect the functionality of the Site. Features such as forms, comments, consent preferences, embedded media, or security protections may not work as expected.

Deleting cookies does not necessarily prevent new cookies from being placed during a future visit.

13. Mobile Device Settings

Mobile devices may offer additional privacy and advertising controls.

Depending on your device, you may be able to:

  • Limit advertising tracking
  • Reset an advertising identifier
  • Control application permissions
  • Restrict cross-site tracking
  • Clear browser storage
  • Manage location access
  • Block certain cookies

Review the privacy or advertising settings supplied by your device manufacturer and operating-system provider.

14. Advertising Opt-Out Tools

You may be able to manage personalized advertising through:

  • Google’s advertising settings
  • Your browser’s privacy settings
  • Your device’s advertising controls
  • The Digital Advertising Alliance
  • The Network Advertising Initiative
  • Other regional advertising-choice programs

Opting out of personalized advertising does not necessarily remove advertisements. It may result in advertisements that are less tailored to your inferred interests.

Opt-out selections may rely on cookies. Deleting those cookies may also delete the record of your opt-out choice.

15. Do Not Track

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting.

Because there is not a universally accepted standard for interpreting every Do Not Track signal, the Site and its service providers may not respond to all such signals.

Where legally required, we may respond to recognized opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control.

You can also manage cookies using the consent tool, browser settings, advertising-provider controls, and other methods described in this policy.

16. Cookie Retention

Cookies may remain on your device for different periods.

Some cookies expire when you close your browser. Others may remain for days, months, or longer, depending on their purpose and the service that placed them.

Cookie retention periods may be determined by:

  • The Site
  • WordPress
  • Google
  • An analytics provider
  • An advertising provider
  • An affiliate network
  • A social media platform
  • A security provider
  • Another third-party service

We do not control the retention period of every third-party cookie.

You can delete stored cookies through your browser settings at any time.

17. Cookie List and Technology Changes

The specific cookies used by the Site may change as:

  • Website features are added or removed
  • WordPress or website plugins are updated
  • Advertising providers change
  • Analytics tools change
  • Embedded content changes
  • Affiliate relationships change
  • Security services change
  • Legal requirements change

The consent-management tool, where available, may provide more current information about specific cookie categories, providers, purposes, and durations.

Because cookies can be added or changed automatically by third-party services, a static list may not always reflect every cookie placed during every visit.

18. Third-Party Responsibility

Third-party providers are responsible for their own cookie and privacy practices.

We encourage you to review the policies of third parties whose content, advertisements, products, links, or services you interact with.

We are not responsible for the accuracy, availability, security, or privacy practices of websites and services that we do not control.

19. Relationship to the Privacy Policy

This Cookie Policy provides information specifically about cookies and similar technologies.

For additional details concerning:

  • Information we collect
  • How information is used
  • How information may be shared
  • Data retention
  • Privacy rights
  • Children’s privacy
  • International visitors
  • Contact procedures

please review our Privacy Policy.

If there is a conflict between this Cookie Policy and the Privacy Policy concerning the broader processing of personal information, the Privacy Policy will apply unless applicable law requires otherwise.

20. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in:

  • Website technology
  • Advertising practices
  • Analytics services
  • Affiliate programs
  • Embedded content
  • Legal requirements
  • Privacy practices
  • Consent-management tools

The updated policy will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.

We encourage you to review this page periodically.

21. Contact Information

For questions, concerns, or requests regarding cookies or this Cookie Policy, contact:

Timothy P. Livingston
Website: timothyplivingston.co
Email: [email protected]