This policy explains the cookies and similar technologies Learn to Upholster uses, why, and how you can control them. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers data protection more broadly.
Last updated: July 2026.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website, or one of its partners, stores on your device so that certain things can be remembered between visits. “Similar technologies” means related tools such as your browser’s local storage, which works in much the same way. Where this policy says “cookies,” it covers both.
The cookies this site uses
1. Strictly necessary and functional
The reading tools on the site store a small amount of information in your browser’s own local storage — for example, your reading progress, any chapters you bookmark, and glossary preferences. This information stays on your device, is not shared with anyone, and is not used to track you or to advertise. Because these are essential to features you have asked for, they do not require consent.
2. Advertising (Google AdSense)
We use Google AdSense to display adverts, which helps keep the site free. Google and its advertising partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve and personalise ads and to measure how they perform. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this site and others. You can read more in Google’s own overview of how it uses cookies and how it uses information from sites that use its services.
In the UK, the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland, these advertising cookies are only set after you have given consent (see below). Other ad-technology vendors may also set cookies; we do not control those, and you can review each vendor’s own choices through the consent tool.
3. Analytics
Where analytics are used, they help us understand which pages readers find useful so we can improve the site. Any non-essential analytics cookies are treated the same way as advertising cookies and are only set with your consent.
How consent works
If you visit from the UK, the EEA or Switzerland, a consent message appears on your first visit asking whether you accept, reject or wish to manage advertising and analytics cookies. Non-essential cookies are not set unless you allow them. That consent message is provided through a Google-certified consent management platform that meets the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF v2.2), which is the standard Google requires for advertising in these regions.
Changing your choices
Once advertising is active, a “Privacy & cookie settings” link (managed by Google) appears on the site, which reopens the consent tool so you can change or withdraw your consent at any time. You can also:
- control or delete cookies through your browser settings, and set your browser to refuse them (some features may work less well);
- manage Google’s ad personalisation in your Google Ad Settings;
- opt out of personalised advertising from many providers at YourAdChoices (US) and Your Online Choices (EU/UK).
Affiliate links
Some pages contain affiliate links, principally through the Amazon EU Associates Programme. If you click one and buy something, the retailer may set its own cookies, and we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This never affects the price you pay or what we choose to recommend, and links of this kind are marked “(paid link).”
More information
For how we handle information more generally, your data-protection rights, and how to contact us, please see our Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about cookies specifically, you can reach us via the contact page.