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Cookie Policy

Last Updated: October 10, 2025

1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how Practice Japanese ("we," "our," or "us") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners.

Cookies can be "persistent" (remaining on your device until deleted or expired) or "session" (deleted when you close your browser).

3. Types of Cookies We Use

3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the operation of our website and cannot be disabled. They include:

  • Authentication Cookies: Used by Firebase to maintain your login session
  • Security Cookies: Help ensure secure connections and protect against fraudulent activity

Legal Basis: These cookies are necessary for the performance of our contract with you (to provide the Service).

3.2 Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow us to remember your preferences and provide enhanced features:

  • Theme Preference: Remembers your light/dark mode selection

Legal Basis: Legitimate interest (to improve your user experience).

3.3 Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics 4 to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website:

  • Pages visited and time spent on each page
  • Navigation paths through the website
  • Device and browser information
  • Geographic location (country/city level)
  • Referral sources

These cookies help us understand user behavior and improve our Service. The information collected is anonymous and aggregated.

Provider: Google Analytics (Google LLC)
Cookie Duration: Up to 2 years
Legal Basis: Legitimate interest (to improve our Service)

3.4 Advertising Cookies

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. These cookies may collect information about your browsing activity across different websites to show you relevant ads:

  • Your visits to our website and other websites
  • Your interaction with advertisements
  • Device and browser information
  • Approximate geographic location

Provider: Google AdSense (Google LLC)
Cookie Duration: Varies (up to 2 years)
Legal Basis: Consent (where required) or legitimate interest

4. Local Storage

In addition to cookies, we use browser localStorage to store data directly on your device:

  • Learned Kanji: Kanji characters you have marked as learned
  • Learning Progress: Your progress through various tools

This data is stored only on your device and is not transmitted to our servers. It will be deleted if you clear your browser data. We are not responsible for the loss of locally stored data.

5. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our website are set by third-party services. We do not control these cookies or how the third parties use them. Please refer to the privacy policies of these third parties for more information:

6. How to Manage and Delete Cookies

6.1 Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to:

  • Block all cookies
  • Block third-party cookies only
  • Delete cookies when you close your browser
  • Notify you when a website tries to set a cookie

Instructions for popular browsers:

Important: Blocking or deleting cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our Service, such as staying logged in or maintaining your preferences.

6.2 Opt-Out of Personalized Advertising

You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google and other participating companies:

6.3 Google Analytics Opt-Out

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

6.4 Do Not Track

Some browsers have a "Do Not Track" (DNT) feature that signals to websites that you do not want to be tracked. Currently, there is no uniform standard for how DNT signals should be interpreted. We do not currently respond to DNT signals.

7. Mobile Devices

If you access our Service through a mobile device, you can manage cookies and tracking through your device settings:

  • iOS: Settings → Safari → Block All Cookies or Settings → Privacy → Advertising → Limit Ad Tracking
  • Android: Settings → Google → Ads → Opt out of Ads Personalization

8. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our data practices. We will post the updated policy on this page with a new "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

9. Questions and Contact

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:

Email: support@practice-japanese.com

10. Consent

By continuing to use our Service, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Cookie Policy. For cookies that require consent under applicable law, your continued use of the Service constitutes your consent to our use of such cookies.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by adjusting your browser settings or using the opt-out tools described above.