Cookie Policy
What this site stores, what our partners may store, and how to change your mind.
The short version
The Patina Nest is an independent blog about cottagecore and vintage home décor. To keep it free to read, we use a handful of cookies: some to make the site work, some to count visits, and some connected to advertising and shop links.
Most of them are set by our partners rather than by us: Google, for advertising and (if enabled) visitor statistics, and the shops we link to — Etsy, Amazon and Chairish — once you click through to them.
You can accept, refuse or delete most cookies whenever you like. Turning off the non-essential ones will not stop you reading anything here; it may simply make the ads you see less relevant to you.
Eleanor HartleyAuthor, The Patina NestLast updated:
What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to keep. When you open another page, or come back next week, the browser hands it back and the site recognises you. That is all a cookie does. What matters is who set it and what it is used for.
Related tools, such as local storage, tracking pixels and page tags, do similar jobs, and when this page says “cookies” it includes them.
The Patina Nest is an independent blog about cottagecore and vintage home décor. Most of what you read here is text and photographs, but a few cookies are involved, mainly because of the advertising and shop links that help pay for the site. This page lists them. For personal information more generally, see our Privacy Policy.
Cookies we use, and why
We group them by purpose, because that is how most browsers and consent tools group them too.
Essential and site-function cookies
These keep the site working. The software behind The Patina Nest is WordPress, which can set cookies when someone logs in or leaves a comment, for example to remember the name and email address you typed. Our caching plugin, LiteSpeed Cache, can also set a small cookie so that logged-in users and commenters see a live version of a page instead of a stored copy. A visitor who only reads the site will normally never receive any of these. Statistics cookies
If Google Analytics is switched on through the Site Kit plugin, it sets cookies that let us count visits, see which pages are read and get a rough idea of where visitors arrive from, such as Pinterest, Google Search or a direct link. We use that to decide what to write next and to notice pages that are not working. We look at combined figures, not at individual visitors. Advertising cookies (Google AdSense)
The Patina Nest shows advertising through Google AdSense. To show an ad, avoid repeating the same one, count impressions and clicks, and spot invalid clicks, Google and its advertising partners may set or read cookies in your browser. Depending on where you are and the choices you have made, ads can be personalised to your interests or simply matched to the page you are reading. We do not choose which ad any individual visitor sees, and we cannot see who was shown what.
Google describes its own practices on its advertising technologies page, in how Google uses cookies and in how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Affiliate links and retailer cookies
Some posts link to products or listings on Etsy, Amazon and Chairish. When you click one of those links, the retailer, or the affiliate network it uses to track referrals, may set a cookie so that it can tell you arrived from The Patina Nest. If you then buy something, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. These cookies come from the retailer’s side, not from this site, and only after you follow the link. Each retailer explains its own use of cookies: Etsy, Amazon and Chairish.
Pinterest and other platforms
Many visitors arrive from Pinterest. Pinterest sets its own cookies on its own site and app, and those are covered by Pinterest’s policies, not this one. If a Pinterest save button, an embedded Pin or a Pinterest tag is added to this site, Pinterest may also set cookies here, and we will list them on this page.
Cookies at a glance
The table below summarises what you may come across. Names and lifespans are decided by the companies that set the cookies and can change without notice, so read the examples as a guide, not a guarantee. Your browser’s settings show exactly what is stored on your device for this site at any moment.
How to control or delete cookies
You are not stuck with the settings you arrived with. There are four places to change them, and they work independently of one another.
On this site
Where a consent message is shown on this site, the “Privacy and cookie settings” button in the panel further down this page reopens it, so you can change or withdraw your answer at any time. The button only appears while a consent tool is active.
Every major browser lets you see, block and delete cookies. Instructions are published for Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox and Safari. Blocking every cookie can stop sign-ins and other features working on sites you use elsewhere, so you may prefer to block only third-party cookies. Browser settings apply to one browser on one device, so repeat them wherever you read.
Advertising choices
Google’s Ads Settings let you turn off ad personalisation. Industry opt-out tools cover many other advertising companies: the Digital Advertising Alliance in the United States, YourAdChoices in Canada, Your Online Choices for the UK and Europe, and the Network Advertising Initiative. Opting out does not remove ads; it makes them less tailored to you.
Some browsers can send a Global Privacy Control signal.
Google Analytics
Google offers a browser add-on that stops Google Analytics collecting data about your visits to any site that uses it.
Rules that depend on where you live
Visitors in Europe, the UK and Switzerland
Non-essential cookies, including advertising cookies, should only be set after you have agreed, and you should be able to withdraw that agreement as easily as you gave it. Google also requires publishers who show AdSense ads to visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland to use a Google-certified consent tool. We show a consent message to visitors in these regions and set advertising cookies only after they agree. Visitors in the United States, Canada and Australia
Privacy law in the United States varies from state to state, and Canada and Australia each have their own national rules. Several US states give residents a right to opt out of targeted advertising. The opt-out tools listed above are open to you wherever you live, and if you would like to exercise a privacy right, contact us using the details below and we will reply as soon as we can.
Changes to this policy
We will update this page when we add or remove a service that sets cookies, such as a newsletter form, an embedded video or another advertising partner, and we will change the “last updated” date near the top of the page when we do. If a change is significant, we will say so here instead of leaving you to spot it.
Questions about cookies?
If something on this page is unclear, or you want to know which service a particular cookie on your device belongs to, write to us and we will point you in the right direction.
Change your choices
Your choices are stored per browser and per device, so you may need to repeat them if you read on both a phone and a laptop.
For how we handle personal information more broadly, read our Privacy Policy.