Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the owners of the site.

Faketective uses cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site.

1. Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.

• Authentication: We use cookies to keep you logged into your account.
• Security: Cookies help us detect and prevent security risks.
• Preferences: We use cookies to remember your settings (like dark mode or volume).

2. Analytics Cookies

We use analytics tools (like Vercel Analytics) to understand how visitors interact with our website. This helps us improve the user experience and identify technical issues. These cookies provide anonymous data and do not identify individual users.

3. Advertising Cookies (Google AdSense)

We use Google AdSense to serve ads when you visit our website. Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.

You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies or to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version.

Please note that blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website (such as staying logged in).

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• Google AdSense: To provide a more relevant experience and limit the number of times a particular ad is shown to you.
• Supabase: To manage user sessions and authentication data.
• Vercel: For performance monitoring and basic anonymous traffic analytics.