Legal & Privacy
Cookie Policy — W.E. Books (The Wonder Emporium Inc.)
This Cookie Policy explains how The Wonder Emporium Inc., d/b/a W.E. Books ("W.E. Books," "we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website and the WE Books mobile and web reading/listening application (the "App"), collectively the "Service." This Cookie Policy supplements our Customer Privacy Policy and Author Privacy Policy.
By continuing to use our website, you consent to our use of cookies as described in this policy, except where we ask for your specific consent (for example, non-essential cookies via a cookie banner) or where applicable law requires otherwise.
1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They allow the site to recognize your device and remember information about your visit, such as your login status or preferences. Similar technologies include web beacons, pixels, local storage, and SDKs used within the App.
2. Categories of Cookies We Use
2.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the Service to function and cannot be switched off. They include cookies that:
- Keep you logged into your account or Author Dashboard;
- Maintain your shopping cart and checkout session;
- Support security features (e.g., fraud prevention, session integrity); and
- Remember cookie consent preferences you've selected.
You cannot opt out of strictly necessary cookies without losing core functionality of the Service.
2.2 Functional Cookies
These cookies remember choices you make (such as display preferences in the App, or your last-read page) to provide a more personalized experience. Disabling these may reduce convenience but will not break core functionality.
2.3 Analytics/Performance Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website and App — for example, which pages are visited, how long users stay, and where users drop off during checkout — so we can improve the Service. We may use third-party analytics providers (such as Google Analytics) for this purpose.
2.4 Marketing/Advertising Cookies
Where enabled and where you consent (as required in your jurisdiction), these cookies are used to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns, such as tracking whether a visit to our site followed a social media or email promotion. We do not currently use third-party cookies to serve behavioral advertising to you across other websites.
3. Cookies Used in the App
The App may use similar local storage or SDK-based technologies (rather than traditional browser cookies) to keep you logged in, sync your reading/listening progress across devices, and understand feature usage. These serve the same categories of purpose described in Section 2.
4. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies are placed by third-party service providers acting on our behalf (for example, our analytics provider or payment processor's fraud-prevention tools). These third parties may use the information collected via cookies for their own purposes as described in their respective privacy policies, to the extent permitted by their agreements with us and applicable law.
5. Your Cookie Choices
5.1 Cookie Consent Banner
Where required by applicable law (for example, for visitors in the EEA, UK, or certain U.S. states), we will present a cookie consent banner allowing you to accept or reject non-essential cookie categories (functional, analytics, marketing) before they are set. You can change your preferences at any time via the cookie settings link in our website footer.
5.2 Browser Controls
Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies through their settings. Please note that blocking strictly necessary cookies will likely prevent parts of the Service (such as login or checkout) from working properly.
5.3 Do Not Track
Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" signal. Because there is no common industry standard for responding to these signals, our Service does not currently respond differently based on a detected Do Not Track signal.
6. 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 or regulatory reasons. We will post the updated policy with a new "Last Updated" date. Material changes will be highlighted via our website or App where appropriate.
7. Contact Us
Questions about this Cookie Policy can be directed to:
Email: support@thewonderemporium.com
Mail: The Wonder Emporium Inc., Houston, Texas
Legal Review & Compliance Note
This document is a working draft prepared for The Wonder Emporium Inc. / W.E. Books and has not been reviewed by an attorney. Before publishing, please: (1) confirm with your web developer exactly which cookies/SDKs are actually implemented on the live site and App so this policy matches reality (a mismatch between stated and actual cookie use is a common compliance issue); (2) implement an actual functioning cookie consent banner if you'll have EEA/UK or applicable U.S.-state visitors, since this policy alone does not satisfy the technical consent requirement in those jurisdictions; and (3) revisit Section 5.3 if you later decide to honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals, which some U.S. states now require treating as a valid opt-out request.