Cookie Policy

Effective date: July 23, 2026
Last updated: July 23, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how BareAnime uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit BareAnime.com, Shop.BareAnime.com, or another website, page, store, account feature, or online service operated by BareAnime that links to this policy.

In this Cookie Policy, “BareAnime,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to BareAnime. “You” and “your” refer to visitors and users of our services.

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

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites store on a computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when a person visits a website.

Cookies may allow a website to:

• Function correctly
• Remember preferences
• Maintain login sessions
• Keep products in a shopping cart
• Secure accounts and transactions
• Understand how visitors use the website
• Measure advertising and affiliate referrals
• Personalize content or advertisements
• Load content provided by third parties

Cookies may contain identifiers and technical information, but they do not necessarily contain information such as your name or email address.

When a cookie or similar identifier can be connected to an individual, device, account, or household, it may be treated as personal information under applicable law.

2. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are placed by BareAnime or through services operating under the BareAnime domain.

They may be used to:

• Operate the website
• Remember cookie preferences
• Maintain accounts
• Preserve shopping-cart contents
• Provide security
• Measure website activity

Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies are placed or accessed by companies other than BareAnime.

Third-party cookies may be used by:

• Analytics providers
• Advertising networks
• Affiliate programs
• Payment providers
• Embedded-video platforms
• Social-media platforms
• Newsletter providers
• Fraud-prevention services
• Other external service providers

BareAnime does not directly control the duration, operation, or use of cookies placed by third parties. Those providers process information according to their own policies.

3. Session and Persistent Cookies

Session Cookies

Session cookies usually expire when you close your browser.

They may be used to:

• Maintain a temporary login session
• Preserve a shopping cart during a visit
• Support website navigation
• Complete checkout
• Prevent fraud or abuse

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you remove them.

They may be used to:

• Remember your preferences
• Recognize returning visitors
• Measure traffic over time
• Remember cookie-consent choices
• Attribute affiliate referrals
• Support advertising or personalization

The duration of a cookie depends on its purpose and the provider that placed it.

4. Similar Technologies

BareAnime and its service providers may use technologies that operate similarly to cookies, including:

• Tracking pixels
• Web beacons
• Local storage
• Software development kits
• Tags
• Scripts
• Device identifiers
• Server logs
• Link-tracking technologies
• Embedded-content identifiers

References to “cookies” in this policy generally include these similar technologies unless the context requires otherwise.

5. Categories of Cookies We May Use

BareAnime may use the following categories of cookies.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies support functions required for BareAnime to operate.

They may be used to:

• Load website pages
• Maintain website security
• Prevent spam, fraud, or abuse
• Remember cookie-consent choices
• Maintain login sessions
• Provide account functions
• Preserve shopping-cart contents
• Process checkout
• Remember items recently viewed
• Distribute traffic across servers
• Protect forms and transactions

Because these cookies are necessary to provide the website or a service you request, they generally cannot be disabled through our cookie-consent tool.

You may block them through your browser, but parts of BareAnime may stop functioning correctly.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies support optional features and preferences.

They may be used to:

• Remember display or accessibility preferences
• Remember language or regional settings
• Support social-media features
• Load enhanced website functions
• Remember previous choices
• Provide personalized site features
• Support newsletter or account tools

If you reject functional cookies, certain optional features may not work properly.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use BareAnime.

They may collect information about:

• Pages viewed
• Visit duration
• Referral sources
• Links selected
• General geographic region
• Browser and device type
• New and returning visitors
• Website errors
• Search activity
• Content performance
• Store and checkout activity

We may use:

• Google Analytics, provided by Google LLC
• Jetpack Stats, provided by Automattic Inc.
• Other analytics providers added in the future

Analytics information helps us improve site performance, understand which anime content interests readers, and identify technical problems.

Where required by law, analytics cookies will not be activated until you provide consent.

Advertising Cookies

Advertising cookies may be used to:

• Display advertisements
• Measure advertisement performance
• Limit how frequently an advertisement appears
• Determine whether an advertisement led to a visit or purchase
• Detect advertising fraud
• Build or use interest-based advertising profiles
• Display advertisements based on browsing activity

Advertising providers may collect information across different websites, apps, browsers, or devices.

BareAnime may introduce or change advertising providers as the website develops. Where required, advertising cookies will not be activated until you consent.

Affiliate Cookies

BareAnime may participate in affiliate programs, including the Amazon Associates Program.

When you select an affiliate link, the retailer, affiliate network, or tracking provider may place or read a cookie or similar identifier.

These technologies may be used to:

• Record that you arrived through a BareAnime link
• Attribute a purchase or qualifying action
• Calculate a commission
• Prevent affiliate fraud
• Measure affiliate-link performance

Affiliate cookies are generally controlled by the applicable retailer or affiliate network.

BareAnime may receive information showing that a qualifying transaction occurred, but we generally do not receive your complete payment information from the retailer.

Please review our Affiliate Disclosure for additional information.

Account and Authentication Cookies

If BareAnime provides accounts, profiles, commenting, or community features, cookies may be used to:

• Keep users signed in
• Verify account sessions
• Protect accounts
• Remember usernames or preferences
• Detect unauthorized login attempts
• Support account recovery
• Manage profile and community features

Logging out may remove some session cookies, while other security or preference cookies may remain for a limited period.

Shopping and WooCommerce Cookies

Shop.BareAnime.com may use WooCommerce and related services to operate the store.

Shopping cookies may be used to:

• Remember products placed in your cart
• Identify when cart contents change
• Maintain a shopping session
• Support checkout
• Remember recently viewed products
• Calculate shipping or tax
• Prevent duplicate orders
• Detect fraud
• Process payments

Common WooCommerce cookie names may include:

• woocommerce_cart_hash
• woocommerce_items_in_cart
• wp_woocommerce_session_
• woocommerce_recently_viewed

The exact names and durations may change depending on WooCommerce settings, extensions, payment providers, and updates.

WordPress Cookies

WordPress may use cookies to:

• Support login and authentication
• Remember user preferences
• support comments
• Maintain administrative sessions
• Secure forms
• Remember whether a commenter previously entered a name or email address

Common WordPress cookie names may include cookies beginning with:

• wordpress_
• wordpress_logged_in_
• wp-settings-
• wp-settings-time-
• comment_author_

The exact cookies used depend on which WordPress features and plugins are active.

Jetpack Cookies and Technologies

BareAnime may use Jetpack services provided by Automattic Inc.

Depending on which Jetpack features are active, Jetpack may process information or use cookies for:

• Website statistics
• Newsletter subscriptions
• Security
• Spam prevention
• Comments
• social features
• Related-post recommendations
• Advertising
• repeat-visitor features
• performance monitoring

Jetpack features and cookie practices may change as features are enabled, disabled, or updated.

Newsletter Cookies and Tracking

If you subscribe to the BareAnime newsletter, Jetpack Newsletter or another email provider may use tracking technologies to:

• Record subscriptions
• Confirm consent
• Process unsubscribe requests
• Measure email delivery
• Determine whether an email was opened
• Measure link selections
• Prevent abuse
• Improve newsletter performance

Email-tracking technologies may operate through pixels or tracked links rather than traditional browser cookies.

You may unsubscribe from marketing communications through the link included in each marketing email.

Embedded-Content Cookies

BareAnime may embed content from third-party platforms, including:

• YouTube
• Social-media services
• Video or audio platforms
• Product widgets
• Commenting tools
• Advertising services
• Affiliate retailers

Embedded content may allow the third party to:

• Place cookies
• Recognize your browser or account
• Record your interaction with the content
• Connect the interaction to an existing third-party profile
• Personalize content or advertising

This may occur particularly when you are logged into the third-party service.

Where technically practical and legally required, nonessential embedded content may remain blocked until you consent to the applicable cookie category.

Payment and Fraud-Prevention Cookies

Payment processors, security providers, and fraud-prevention services may use cookies or device information to:

• Process payments
• Authenticate transactions
• Detect suspicious behavior
• Prevent fraudulent purchases
• Manage disputes and chargebacks
• Protect payment information

Some payment and security technologies may be considered necessary to complete a transaction you request.

6. Specific Services We Currently Expect to Use

BareAnime currently uses or expects to use the following services.

Google Analytics

BareAnime may use Google Analytics, provided by Google LLC, to measure website traffic and performance.

Google Analytics may use cookies such as:

• _ga
• _ga_<container-id>

These identifiers may be used to distinguish visitors and sessions, measure website activity, and generate reports.

The exact cookies, identifiers, retention periods, and features used depend on our Google Analytics configuration.

Where required, Google Analytics storage will remain disabled until you consent to analytics cookies.

Jetpack Stats

BareAnime may use Jetpack Stats, provided by Automattic Inc., to measure page views, referral sources, reader activity, and content performance.

The information processed and cookies used may depend on Jetpack’s configuration and the features BareAnime enables.

Jetpack Newsletter

BareAnime may use Jetpack Newsletter, provided by Automattic Inc., to manage newsletter subscriptions, send new-post notifications or marketing messages, and process unsubscribe requests.

WooCommerce

Shop.BareAnime.com may use WooCommerce to provide cart, account, product, checkout, tax, shipping, and order-management functions.

WooCommerce may use necessary cookies to preserve cart and session information.

Amazon Associates and Other Affiliate Programs

Affiliate partners may place or access cookies after you select an affiliate link. The applicable partner determines the cookie’s name, purpose, and duration.

Google or YouTube Embedded Services

BareAnime may embed YouTube videos or use other Google services.

Google may collect information or place cookies when embedded content is loaded or played. Where required, the content may remain blocked until the user consents to the relevant cookie category.

7. Cookie Inventory

Because WordPress plugins, analytics tools, advertisements, embedded content, and affiliate services can change, the precise cookies used by BareAnime may change over time.

Our cookie-consent tool may display an automatically generated or periodically updated cookie inventory containing:

• Cookie name
• Provider
• Purpose
• Category
• Type
• Expiration or duration

The cookie inventory displayed through our consent tool forms part of this Cookie Policy.

BareAnime will periodically review its website and cookie settings. However, a third-party service may change a cookie before this written policy is updated.

8. Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit BareAnime, you may be shown a cookie-consent banner or preference panel.

Depending on your location and the technologies in use, the banner may allow you to:

• Accept all cookies
• Reject nonessential cookies
• Accept selected categories
• Review cookie purposes
• Change or withdraw consent

Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they are needed to operate the website or provide a service you request.

Rejecting nonessential cookies should not prevent you from reading ordinary BareAnime articles, although embedded media, personalized features, analytics, advertisements, or other optional tools may not function.

9. Changing or Withdrawing Consent

You may change your choices at any time through the Cookie Settings or Manage Consent link displayed on BareAnime.

Withdrawing consent does not automatically remove cookies already stored on your device. You may need to delete existing cookies through your browser settings.

After you withdraw consent, BareAnime should stop activating the rejected categories on future page loads, subject to technical limitations and cookies required for essential functions.

Your choices may need to be set again when:

• You use a different browser
• You use a different device
• You clear your cookies
• The consent cookie expires
• BareAnime introduces a new cookie purpose
• The website’s cookie settings materially change

10. Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to:

• View stored cookies
• Delete individual cookies
• Delete all cookies
• Block all cookies
• Block third-party cookies
• Limit cross-site tracking
• Receive notifications before cookies are placed

Browser settings differ by browser and device.

Blocking all cookies may interfere with:

• Account login
• Commenting
• Shopping carts
• Checkout
• Cookie preferences
• Embedded content
• Other website functions

11. Global Privacy Control and Similar Signals

Some browsers and extensions transmit privacy preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control.

Where applicable law requires BareAnime to recognize a valid opt-out preference signal, we will process that signal as required.

A browser-based signal may apply only to the browser or device from which it is sent.

12. Do Not Track

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting.

Because there is not one universally accepted technical or legal standard governing all Do Not Track signals, BareAnime may not respond to every Do Not Track setting.

This does not limit any rights you may have under applicable law or through our cookie-consent controls.

13. Consent Records

Our consent-management provider may store a necessary cookie or consent record showing:

• Whether you accepted or rejected cookies
• Which categories you selected
• The date of your choice
• The version of the consent notice shown
• A pseudonymous consent identifier

This record allows BareAnime to remember and demonstrate your choices.

14. Children’s Privacy

BareAnime is not directed to children under 13.

We do not knowingly use cookies to sell, share, or target advertising based on the personal information of children under 13.

BareAnime does not knowingly sell or share the personal information of children under 16 for cross-context behavioral advertising.

A parent or legal guardian who believes a child’s information has been collected may contact us using the information below.

15. International Visitors

BareAnime is operated from the United States and is intended for anime fans worldwide.

Cookie and consent requirements may differ depending on where you live.

Where required by applicable law, BareAnime will:

• Request consent before activating nonessential cookies
• Provide separate cookie categories
• Allow visitors to reject nonessential cookies
• Allow consent to be withdrawn
• Provide information about cookie purposes and providers

16. Third-Party Privacy Policies

Third-party providers control their own cookies and data-processing practices.

You should review the privacy and cookie policies of services you interact with, including:

• Google
• Automattic and Jetpack
• WooCommerce
• Amazon and other affiliate retailers
• Payment processors
• Shipping and fulfillment providers
• Social-media platforms
• Embedded-content providers
• Advertising partners

BareAnime is not responsible for third-party websites or services that operate outside our control.

17. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when:

• We activate or remove a plugin
• We add an analytics or advertising provider
• We change newsletter services
• We introduce user accounts or community features
• We add new embedded content
• Legal or regulatory requirements change
• A provider changes its cookie practices

When we revise the policy, we will update the “Last updated” date.

If we introduce a materially different nonessential cookie purpose, we may request consent again where required.

18. Contact Us

For questions about this Cookie Policy or how BareAnime uses cookies, contact:

BareAnime
Website: BareAnime.com
Email: Contact@bareanime.com
Location: United States

Use the subject line Cookie Privacy Request to help us identify your message.