Cookie Policy

Last updated: 2024

MantelMuse ("we", "us", "our", mantelmuse.com) uses a small number of cookies and browser storage technologies to make the site work properly and to help us understand how visitors use our home decor reviews and guides. This Cookie Policy explains what these technologies are, which ones we use, and how you can control or withdraw your consent.

What Are Cookies and Local Storage?

Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device when you visit it. Local storage (specifically localStorage) is a similar browser technology that allows a website to store small pieces of information directly in your browser, without necessarily being sent back to a server with every request. Both technologies allow a site to remember information about your visit or your preferences.

How MantelMuse Uses Cookies and Local Storage

We keep our use of tracking technologies minimal and purposeful. Specifically, we use the following:

• Consent Banner Preference (localStorage): When you first visit MantelMuse, you will see a cookie consent banner asking whether you accept or decline non-essential cookies. Your choice (accept or decline) is stored in your browser's localStorage. This allows us to remember your preference so the banner does not reappear on every page you visit. This storage item does not identify you personally and is not shared with third parties.
• Analytics Cookies (only if accepted): If you click "Accept" on our consent banner, we activate analytics cookies that help us understand how visitors interact with MantelMuse — for example, which articles and product reviews are most popular, how long readers spend on a page, and which pages lead to broken links or errors. If you click "Decline," these analytics cookies are not set, and no analytics tracking scripts are loaded on your device.
• Strictly Necessary Storage: Certain basic functionality, such as remembering your cookie consent choice itself, is considered strictly necessary for the site to function as intended and does not require separate consent.

Third-Party Analytics Cookies

When analytics cookies are enabled (because you accepted our cookie banner), we may use third-party analytics providers to collect aggregated, non-identifying statistics about site usage. These third-party services may set their own cookies on your device in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies. Information collected typically includes anonymized data such as approximate location (city or country level), device and browser type, pages visited, referring website, and time spent on the site. We use this information solely to improve MantelMuse's content, layout, and user experience — we do not use analytics data to build individual advertising profiles, and we do not sell this data to third parties.

Because these analytics cookies are third-party in nature, we encourage you to review the privacy and cookie policies of our analytics providers for further detail on how they handle data, should you wish to learn more.

Do We Use Advertising or Tracking Cookies?

MantelMuse does not currently use third-party advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, or cross-site tracking cookies. The only optional cookies we use are analytics cookies, and these are only activated with your consent as described above.

How to Withdraw or Change Your Consent

You are always in control of your cookie preferences. If you previously accepted analytics cookies and wish to withdraw that consent, or if you want to reset your stored preference so the consent banner appears again, you can do so at any time by clearing your browser's cookies and local storage for mantelmuse.com. Generally, this can be done through your browser's settings:

• Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Clear browsing data > select "Cookies and other site data" and "Cached images and files," then choose mantelmuse.com or clear all site data.
• Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data > Clear Data.
• Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data > search for mantelmuse.com and remove it.
• Edge: Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Choose what to clear > Cookies and other site data.

Once your browser's storage for mantelmuse.com has been cleared, our consent banner will appear again the next time you visit, allowing you to make a fresh choice about analytics cookies. You can also adjust most browsers to block all cookies or to notify you before a cookie is set, though doing so may affect how some parts of the site function.

Browser Controls

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings, including blocking cookies entirely, deleting existing cookies, or being notified when a cookie is about to be set. Please note that blocking or deleting essential storage items, such as the consent preference itself, may cause the cookie banner to reappear on future visits, since your browser will no longer have a record of your previous choice.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies and technologies we use, or for legal, operational, or regulatory reasons. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies and similar technologies.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how MantelMuse uses cookies and local storage, please reach out to us through the contact information provided on our website. We are happy to help clarify any concerns you may have about your privacy and browsing preferences.