Cookies Policy

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are used to make sites work, to remember preferences, or to track activity. This page explains how we use them on russianwithjulia.com.

These cookies are strictly necessary for the service to work and are set regardless of your consent choice:

• Consent cookie (cookie_consent) — remembers whether you accepted or declined analytics cookies. Lifetime: 1 year.
• Authentication cookie (set when you log into your account on /courses) — required to keep you signed in. Set by our backend (Convex Auth). Lifetime: 30 days.
• Stripe cookies — Stripe (our payment processor) sets technical cookies on its own payment pages and via its embedded scripts to detect and prevent fraud. These cookies are essential to safe payment processing. See Stripe’s cookie policy for details.

To understand how our site is used and to measure the reach of our content, we use the following third-party cookies. They are loaded unless you decline them via the cookie banner (see section 4):

• Google Analytics 4 (cookies _ga, _ga_*) — measures audience and traffic sources. Operated by Google. Data retention: 14 months. See Google’s privacy policy.
• Meta Pixel (cookie _fbp) — measures the performance of our social media presence and ads. Operated by Meta (Facebook/Instagram). Conversion data retention: 90 days. See Meta’s privacy policy.
• YouTube cookies — video reviews on the home page are embedded from YouTube. When you click play on a video, YouTube may set its own cookies. Until you click play, no YouTube cookie is set (we use a thumbnail-only preview).

On your first visit, a cookie banner lets you Accept or Decline the analytics and marketing cookies described in section 3. If you decline, Google Analytics and the Meta Pixel are not loaded at all. Your choice is stored in the cookie_consent cookie; to change it, clear your cookies and reload the page.

You can also opt out at the source with the Google Analytics Opt-out add-on and, for Meta, browser extensions such as Facebook Container.

You can configure your browser to block or delete cookies. Note that if you block the authentication cookie, you will not be able to access your purchased video courses on /courses.

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