Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Ripped & Torn uses cookies and similar technologies.
Cookies help websites work, remember preferences, understand visitor behaviour, display embedded content, and support affiliate links or advertising where used.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work properly, improve performance, remember choices, and provide information to website owners.
This policy also covers similar technologies such as tracking pixels, scripts, tags, link tracking, web storage and other technologies that store or access information on your device.
How we use cookies
Ripped & Torn may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
- to make the website work properly;
- to protect the website from spam, abuse or technical problems;
- to remember cookie choices or site preferences;
- to understand how visitors use the website;
- to improve pages, articles, navigation and layout;
- to display embedded content such as videos, audio, maps, social media posts or newsletter content;
- to track affiliate link clicks and referrals;
- to support advertising or promotional activity, if used.
Types of cookies we may use
| Type | Purpose | Consent |
|---|---|---|
| Essential cookies | These are needed for the website to work properly. They may support basic functions such as page loading, security, forms, cookie preferences or logged-in areas. | These usually do not require consent because they are necessary for the site to function. |
| Preference cookies | These remember choices you make, such as display settings or cookie preferences. | Consent or a clear option to object may be required depending on how they are used. |
| Analytics cookies | These help us understand how visitors use the website, such as which pages are viewed, how long people stay, and how visitors move around the site. | Consent may be required unless the analytics use falls within a permitted exception and users are given clear information and a simple way to object. |
| Affiliate cookies | These may be used by affiliate networks, retailers or third-party partners to record that a visitor clicked from Ripped & Torn to another website. | Consent may be required, especially where tracking goes beyond what is strictly necessary. |
| Advertising cookies | These may be used to measure advertising, limit repeated ads, personalise ads or understand ad performance. | Consent is required for advertising-related storage or tracking technologies. |
| Embedded content cookies | Embedded content from third-party services may set cookies or use similar technologies. This may include video players, audio players, social media posts, maps, newsletters or Substack-style embeds. | Consent may be required depending on the third-party service and how the technology is used. |
Affiliate links and tracking
Some pages on Ripped & Torn may contain affiliate links. If you click one of these links and buy something from a third-party website, Ripped & Torn may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.
Affiliate links may use cookies, tracking pixels, link decoration or similar technologies to record that you clicked from this website. The affiliate network, retailer or third-party website may use this information to attribute a sale or referral.
When you click an affiliate link, you leave Ripped & Torn and visit a third-party website. That website may set its own cookies and will have its own privacy and cookie policies.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles and pages on Ripped & Torn may include embedded content from third-party websites. This may include videos, audio, playlists, social media posts, maps, ticket listings, shop widgets, newsletter embeds or other external content.
Embedded content behaves as if you visited the third-party website directly. Those websites may collect information about you, use cookies, track your interaction with the embedded content, and combine this with other information they hold about you.
Managing your cookie choices
Where required, Ripped & Torn will ask for your consent before setting non-essential cookies or using similar technologies.
You can manage your cookie choices through the cookie banner or cookie settings tool on this website, where available.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete cookies, or receive a warning before cookies are stored. Blocking some cookies may affect how the website works.
Third-party cookies
Third-party services may set cookies or use similar technologies when you interact with their content, links, adverts or services through this website.
These third parties may include, depending on what is used on the site:
- analytics providers;
- video and audio platforms;
- social media platforms;
- newsletter or email platforms;
- affiliate networks;
- retailers and marketplaces;
- advertising networks;
- spam protection or security services.
We do not control third-party cookies once they are set by another website or service. You should check the cookie and privacy policies of those third parties for more information.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, especially if we add or remove services that use cookies or similar technologies.
Any updates will be published on this page with an updated date.
Contact
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us through the contact page.
Last updated: 8 July 2026
