Cookie Policy

Last Updated: August, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how The Dating Garage (“The Dating Garage,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) uses cookies, pixels, browser storage, analytics technologies, and similar tools when you visit or interact with www.thedatinggarage.com and its related pages, accounts, memberships, books, digital field guides, cheat codes, downloads, bundles, products, and services.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

Where required by applicable law, we will request your permission before placing non-essential cookies or similar technologies on your device. You may manage your cookie choices through any cookie-consent tool made available on the website or through your browser settings.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies allow websites to recognize a device, remember information about a visit, maintain sessions, store preferences, improve performance, and understand how visitors interact with website content.

Cookies may be:

Session cookies, which are generally deleted when you close your browser
Persistent cookies, which remain on your device until they expire or are manually deleted
First-party cookies, which are placed directly by The Dating Garage
Third-party cookies, which are placed by outside service providers used by the website

Other technologies, including pixels, tags, software development tools, browser storage, device identifiers, and tracking links, may perform functions similar to cookies.

References to “cookies” in this policy include these similar technologies where applicable.

2. How We Use Cookies

The Dating Garage may use cookies and similar technologies to:

Keep the website operating properly
Maintain secure account and login sessions
Provide access to memberships and protected content
Confirm access to purchased products
Remember website and communication preferences
Process purchases and payments
Maintain shopping-cart and checkout functions
Analyze website traffic and visitor activity
Measure page and content performance
Improve website speed and reliability
Identify technical problems
Prevent fraud and unauthorized access
Protect accounts and website security
Personalize website content
Understand how visitors find the website
Measure email and marketing performance
Support advertising and promotional campaigns
Improve our books, field guides, cheat codes, memberships, products, and services

We do not use cookies to access unrelated private files or information stored on your device.

3. Types of Cookies We May Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are required for the website and its essential features to operate.

These cookies may support:

Website navigation
Page loading
Account authentication
Secure login sessions
Membership access
Access to purchased digital products
Shopping-cart functions
Checkout and payment processing
Fraud prevention
Website security
Privacy and cookie-preference settings

Because these cookies are necessary to provide requested website functions, they generally cannot be disabled through the website’s cookie-management system.

You may still be able to block them through your browser, but doing so may prevent parts of the website from functioning correctly.

Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies help the website remember choices and provide improved features.

These cookies may remember:

Login preferences
Language or regional settings
Display preferences
Saved website choices
Account settings
Membership preferences
Previously viewed content
Device-specific settings

Disabling functionality cookies may reduce personalization or prevent certain convenience features from working.

Performance and Analytics Cookies

Performance and analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website.

These cookies may collect information such as:

Pages visited
Time spent on pages
Links selected
Entry and exit pages
Referral sources
Browser type
Device type
Approximate location
Website traffic patterns
Page-loading performance
Error and diagnostic information
Interactions with website features

This information helps us evaluate website performance, identify problems, understand which content is useful, and improve the visitor experience.

Analytics information may be aggregated or connected to online identifiers, depending on the service being used.

Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Marketing and advertising cookies may be used to understand audience interests, measure promotional performance, and provide more relevant advertising.

These cookies or similar technologies may help us:

Measure advertising campaigns
Track referrals from advertisements
Understand whether visitors complete a purchase
Limit how frequently advertisements are displayed
Build or understand audience groups
Personalize promotional content
Measure email and marketing engagement
Display advertising on third-party platforms
Evaluate which promotions are effective

Advertising and social-media providers may use their own cookies or identifiers according to their privacy policies.

Depending on your jurisdiction, these activities may be considered targeted advertising, cross-context behavioural advertising, or the sharing of personal information.

Where required, you will be provided with an opportunity to consent to or opt out of these activities.

4. Information Collected Through Cookies

Cookies and similar technologies may collect or generate information including:

IP address
Browser type
Device type
Operating system
Device identifiers
Cookie identifiers
Approximate geographic location
Referring website or advertisement
Pages viewed
Links selected
Session duration
Date and time of visits
Shopping-cart activity
Purchase-conversion information
Login and account-session information
Website preferences
Marketing interactions
Email-opening or link-selection information
Website errors and performance information

Cookie information may be connected with account or purchase information when reasonably necessary to operate the website, provide requested services, protect the platform, or measure marketing performance.

Additional information about how we handle personal information is provided in our Privacy Policy.

5. Payment, Account, and Membership Cookies

Third-party payment processors, ecommerce systems, account platforms, or membership services may use cookies necessary to:

Maintain shopping-cart contents
Process checkout requests
Authenticate customers
Verify payment status
Prevent fraudulent transactions
Maintain secure sessions
Provide access to purchased content
Manage memberships
Remember account preferences

Blocking these cookies may prevent you from completing a purchase, signing in, maintaining a secure session, or accessing purchased products.

The Dating Garage generally does not directly store complete payment-card or financial-account information through cookies.

Payment information is handled by the applicable third-party payment provider according to its own privacy and cookie practices.

6. Third-Party Cookies and Services

The Dating Garage may use third-party providers that place or access cookies and similar technologies.

These providers may include:

Website-hosting providers
Ecommerce and payment platforms
Membership software
Website analytics providers
Email-delivery and marketing platforms
Embedded video or media services
Social-media platforms
Advertising providers
Customer-support tools
Website-security providers
Fraud-prevention services
Content-delivery networks

Third-party providers may collect information directly from your browser or device and process that information according to their own privacy policies.

We do not control the retention periods, security practices, or independent use of cookies placed directly by third parties.

You should review the applicable provider’s privacy and cookie policies before using its services or submitting personal information.

7. Embedded Content and External Platforms

Pages on The Dating Garage may include embedded videos, social-media features, forms, payment tools, or other content supplied by external platforms.

When you interact with embedded content, the external provider may place cookies or collect information about:

Your device
Your browser
Your IP address
The page you visited
Your interaction with the embedded feature
Your account with that external platform

Some providers may collect this information even when you do not actively interact with the embedded content, depending on how the feature is configured.

External platforms operate under their own privacy and cookie policies.

8. Cookie Duration

The amount of time a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose and configuration.

Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies may remain for a defined period or until you manually delete them.

Third-party providers determine the duration of cookies they place.

Cookie durations may change when website functions, service providers, or technologies are updated.

We aim to retain cookie information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

9. Managing Your Cookie Choices

Where available, you may manage non-essential cookies through the cookie banner, consent tool, or privacy-settings feature displayed on the website.

Depending on the tools used by the website, you may be able to:

Accept all cookies
Reject non-essential cookies
Select specific cookie categories
Withdraw previous consent
Change your preferences
Opt out of certain analytics
Opt out of certain marketing or advertising activities

Changing your cookie preferences will not necessarily delete cookies already stored on your device. You may need to delete previously stored cookies through your browser settings.

Your preferences may apply only to the browser and device on which they were selected. You may need to repeat your choices when using another browser, device, or private-browsing session.

10. Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to:

View stored cookies
Delete individual cookies
Delete all cookies
Block third-party cookies
Block all cookies
Receive warnings before cookies are stored
Clear browser storage
Manage website permissions
Limit certain tracking technologies

Instructions vary by browser and device. Consult your browser’s settings or help documentation for specific instructions.

Blocking all cookies may interfere with:

Account logins
Membership access
Shopping-cart functions
Checkout and payment processing
Access to purchased downloads
Saved preferences
Security features
Embedded content
Other website functions

11. Do Not Track and Privacy Preference Signals

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting.

There is no single response to Do Not Track signals that is required or consistently implemented in every jurisdiction. As a result, the website may not respond to traditional Do Not Track signals unless required by applicable law.

Some browsers or extensions may also send legally recognized opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control.

Where The Dating Garage is legally required to recognize and process a valid privacy-preference signal, we will make reasonable efforts to honour that signal for the applicable browser or device.

A privacy-preference signal may not disable strictly necessary cookies or cookies required to provide a service you specifically requested.

12. Email Tracking Technologies

Emails sent by The Dating Garage or its email-service provider may contain tracking pixels or uniquely coded links.

These technologies may help determine:

Whether an email was delivered
Whether an email was opened
Whether a link was selected
Which content generated engagement
Whether a purchase or other action followed an email

This information may be used to evaluate communications, improve email content, reduce unwanted messages, and measure promotional performance.

You may be able to limit certain email tracking by disabling image loading in your email application. You may unsubscribe from marketing emails using the unsubscribe link included in the message.

Transactional, security, account, purchase, or customer-support emails may still be sent when necessary.

13. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information collected through cookies and similar technologies against:

Unauthorized access
Loss
Misuse
Disclosure
Alteration
Destruction

However, no internet transmission, website, storage system, cookie technology, or electronic-security measure can be guaranteed completely secure.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your device, browser, passwords, and account credentials.

14. Adults Only

The Dating Garage is intended only for adults who are at least 18 years old.

We do not knowingly use cookies to collect personal information from anyone under 18.

By using the website, creating an account, joining a membership, or making a purchase, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old and legally permitted to use the website in your jurisdiction.

If we learn that personal information has been collected from a person under 18, we may delete the information and restrict or terminate the related account.

15. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes to:

The website
Our products and services
Cookie technologies
Service providers
Advertising or analytics tools
Business practices
Applicable legal requirements

The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date.

Changes become effective when posted unless another effective date is stated.

Where legally required, we may provide additional notice or request updated consent.

We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically.

16. Contact Information

For questions, requests, or concerns regarding this Cookie Policy or the website’s use of cookies, contact:

The Dating Garage
Email: info@thedatinggarage.com
Website: www.thedatinggarage.com

Please include enough information for us to understand and respond to your request.

Do not submit passwords, complete payment-card numbers, banking credentials, or other unnecessary sensitive information by email.

The Dating Garage is independently operated. Please allow a reasonable amount of time for a response, subject to any response period required by applicable law.

17. Related Policies

This Cookie Policy should be read together with:

The Dating Garage Privacy Policy
The Dating Garage Terms of Service
The Dating Garage Refund Policy
Any privacy or cookie notice displayed when information is collected

If there is a conflict between this Cookie Policy and a more specific notice presented when information is collected, the more specific notice will apply to that particular activity.