Last Updated: June 9, 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to gratefulcollectibles.com (“we”, “our”, “us”). We are committed to being transparent about the technologies we use. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit our website gratefulcollectibles.com. This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
By continuing to browse or use our site, you agree that we can store and access cookies as described in this policy.
2. What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer or other device when you visit a website. It allows the website to recognize your device and remember if you’ve been to the website before. Cookies are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
3. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a single, specific purpose: to understand and analyze how our visitors interact with our website. To do this, we use a third-party service called Google Analytics.
We do not use cookies for advertising, marketing, or to track your activity across other websites. Our use of cookies is strictly for internal analytical purposes to improve the user experience on our own website.
4. What is Google Analytics?
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. It uses cookies to collect data that helps us understand how much traffic our site gets, which pages are most popular, how long visitors stay on the site, and other similar insights.
The information generated by the Google Analytics cookies about your use of our website is anonymous and is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
5. The Specific Cookies We Use (Google Analytics)
Our website uses the following cookies from Google Analytics:
- _ga: This is the main cookie used by Google Analytics. It is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request on a site and used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports.
- Default Expiration: 2 years
- ga(unique ID): This cookie is used to persist session state.
- Default Expiration: 2 years
- _gid: This cookie is also used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited.
- Default Expiration: 24 hours
Please note that Google may change the names and purposes of its cookies from time to time. For the most accurate and up-to-date information, you can refer to Google’s own documentation on cookies.
6. How to Control or Opt-Out of Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences in the following ways:
- Browser Controls: Most web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or to delete certain cookies. For more details on how to manage cookies with your specific browser, please visit the help pages for that browser (e.g., Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge). Please note that if you choose to block cookies, your experience on our website may be affected.
- Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: To provide website visitors with more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics. You can download and install the add-on for your current web browser here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
7. Changes to This Cookie 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. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us.