Cookie Policy
This policy explains how Valor & Ventures Media uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit valorandventures.media, and the choices available to you. It works alongside our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. We also use related technologies such as local storage and pixel tags. Together we refer to them as cookies in this policy.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These keep you signed in, protect member-only dispatches and book downloads, remember your consent choices, and defend the site against fraud and abuse. They cannot be switched off through the site because core features would stop working.
Preference Cookies
These remember choices you make as a reader — your newsletter topics, dismissed banners, time-zone display, and audio player position on podcast episodes.
Analytics Cookies
We use privacy-respecting analytics to understand which stories are read, how readers arrive, and where pages fail. This data is aggregated and used to improve our reporting and site performance, not to build advertising profiles.
Advertising and Sponsorship
Sponsored placements on VVM are sold directly and served from our own systems wherever possible. Where a partner or affiliate link sets its own cookie, that partner's policy governs it. See our Advertising Policy and Affiliate Disclosure for details.
Payments
Checkout for memberships, books, and podcast subscriptions is processed by Stripe, which sets cookies necessary to complete payment and prevent fraud. We never store your card details.
Your Choices
You can clear or block cookies at any time in your browser settings, and use private browsing to limit storage. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will sign you out and prevent access to member content and downloads.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
We honor Global Privacy Control signals for analytics and any partner sharing. Because there is no common standard for Do Not Track headers, we treat them the same way.
Readers in the EU, UK, and California
Where consent is required by the GDPR, UK GDPR, or comparable laws, non-essential cookies are set only after you agree. You may withdraw consent at any time by clearing cookies or contacting us. California readers may exercise their rights under the CCPA/CPRA using the contact address below.
Changes to This Policy
We update this policy when our use of cookies changes. The date above always reflects the current version.
Contact
Questions about cookies or data practices can be sent to privacy@valorandventures.media.