Cookie Policy

Understanding Cookies and Ourge

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our website. They help us remember your preferences, improve site functionality, and provide a personalized reading experience tailored to your interests and reading habits.

We use cookies to maintain your login session, remember your reading progress, store your preferred settings, and analyze how you interact with our platform to continuously improve our services.

Essential Cookies for Core Functionality

Essential cookies are necessary for our website to function properly and cannot be disabled. These cookies enable basic features like secure login, account authentication, and maintaining your session while browsing different sections of our platform.

Without these cookies, you would not be able to access your account, save reading progress, or use many of the interactive features that make Paper Lantern Library functional.

Performance and Analytics Cookies

We use performance cookies to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website, including which pages are most popular, how long users spend reading, and which features are used most frequently.

This data helps us identify areas for improvement, optimize loading times, and ensure our platform provides the best possible reading experience for our community.

Functional Cookies for Enhanced Experience

Functional cookies remember your choices and preferences, such as your preferred reading font size, theme settings, bookmark locations, and language preferences, allowing us to provide a more personalized experience.

These cookies also enable features like remembering your position in reading challenges, maintaining your reading lists across sessions, and providing relevant book recommendations based on your reading history.

Targeting and Advertising Cookies

For users on our free tier, we use targeting cookies to display relevant advertisements and promotional content. These cookies help us show ads that align with your reading interests and preferences.

Premium subscribers do not receive advertising content, and targeting cookies are not used for their accounts, providing an ad-free reading experience as part of their subscription benefits.

Third-Party Cookies and External Services

We work with trusted third-party services for analytics, payment processing, and content delivery. These services may place their own cookies on your device, subject to their respective privacy policies and cookie practices.

Third-party cookies may include those from payment processors, analytics providers, and content delivery networks that help us provide reliable and secure services to our users.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can control cookie settings through our cookie banner, which appears when you first visit our site. You can accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customize your preferences for different cookie categories.

Your cookie preferences are saved and can be updated at any time through the cookie settings link in our website footer or by clearing your browser's cookie storage.

Browser-Level Cookie Controls

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can choose to block all cookies, accept only first-party cookies, or receive notifications when cookies are being set.

Please note that disabling cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our platform, including maintaining login sessions and saving reading progress.

Impact of Disabling Cookies

If you choose to disable cookies, you may experience reduced functionality on our platform. Essential features like account login, reading progress tracking, and personalized recommendations may not work properly.

While you can still access public domain books and basic reading features, the full Paper Lantern Library experience requires certain cookies to function optimally.

Other Tracking Technologies

In addition to cookies, we may use web beacons, pixel tags, and similar technologies to collect information about your interactions with our emails and website content.

These technologies help us understand email engagement, track the effectiveness of our communications, and improve our content delivery and user experience.

Mobile App Data Collection

Our mobile applications may collect similar information through app-specific technologies and device identifiers. This data is used to provide seamless synchronization between web and mobile platforms.

Mobile data collection is governed by the same principles outlined in this policy and our Privacy Policy, with appropriate controls available through your device settings.

Data Retention for Cookie Information

Cookie data is retained for varying periods depending on the type and purpose. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser, while persistent cookies may remain for up to two years or until you delete them.

We regularly review and clean up stored cookie data to ensure we only retain information that is necessary for providing our services and improving user experience.

Updates to Our Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements. Any significant changes will be communicated through our website and, where appropriate, via email notification.

We encourage you to review this policy regularly to stay informed about how we use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your Paper Lantern Library experience.

Contact Us About Cookie Practices

If you have questions or concerns about our use of cookies or need assistance with cookie settings, please contact us at hello@urmenraindrop.com or call +81 90-6139-6511.

Our support team can help you understand your options and assist with any cookie-related issues you may encounter while using our platform.