Last updated: August 16, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Times Media Service LLC uses cookies and similar technologies on Grand Terrace at https://grandterrace.net. It should be read with our Privacy Notice.
Times Media Service LLC is the operator responsible for the practices described in this Policy.
Times Media Service LLC, 32 N Gould St., Suite R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States. Telephone: 307-655-1046. Email: privacy@timesmediaservice.com.
1. What cookies and similar technologies are
Cookies are small text files that a website or service stores on a browser or device. We also use or encounter similar technologies, including local storage, pixels, analytics tags, security scripts, service workers, consent strings, server-side consent identifiers, device or browser identifiers, browser push-subscription endpoints, and payment or newsletter technologies on provider-hosted pages.
Some technologies are necessary to deliver a service or protect the site. Others are optional and operate only after the relevant consent.
2. The WPLP consent banner
WPLP presents our consent banner worldwide. The first layer provides Accept All, Reject All, and Manage Options with equal prominence.
Before you make a choice, strictly necessary technologies are on and locked. The functional or preferences, analytics, and advertising or marketing categories are off. Reject All leaves only strictly necessary technologies active.
You can reopen the publication’s cookie-settings control at any time to change or withdraw an optional choice. The browser-side WPLP consent record remains for 24 months before the site asks for consent again, unless an earlier change, withdrawal, browser action, or legal requirement causes the choice to be refreshed.
When you reject or withdraw an optional choice, the related optional processing stops and controllable optional cookies and browser identifiers are deleted immediately. This does not retrieve data already transmitted to a provider; that provider handles previously received data under its own retention practices and legal obligations.
3. Cookie and technology categories
Strictly necessary
These technologies are required to provide a feature you request, maintain a session, remember privacy choices, protect an account or the site, process an eligible transaction, or balance and deliver site traffic. They are on and locked in Manage Options because the relevant service cannot operate securely without them.
Examples include WordPress and WooCommerce session and account technologies, WPLP consent storage, SiteGround security, and Google reCAPTCHA v3 on protected account and comment pages.
Functional or preferences
These optional technologies remember choices or enable a convenience that is not essential to the core service. They remain off until you enable the category. An example is an optional profile-image preference such as Gravatar after you select it.
Analytics
These optional technologies help us understand readership and site performance. Google Analytics 4 is fully blocked until you enable analytics, including denied-state pings. If you do not enable analytics, GA4 does not run on the site.
Advertising or marketing
These optional technologies would support advertising or marketing services if such a service were active and the required choice had been made. This category is currently off by default, and Google AdSense is not active on the publication sites. Times Media Service LLC does not currently sell personal data or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising.
4. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track
We treat both a browser Global Privacy Control signal and a Do Not Track signal as an opt-out from optional technologies. When either signal is detected, WPLP applies the same optional-category opt-out. Strictly necessary technologies may continue to operate.
This treatment is separate from whether a particular signal creates a legal obligation in the jurisdiction where you live.
5. Consent records
WPLP stores a browser-side consent record for up to 24 months. WPLP also keeps a server-side consent log for 12 months, stored only in the WordPress database for this publication.
Depending on the record, the server-side log contains:
- Consent choices or an applicable Transparency and Consent Framework string.
- The date and time of the choice.
- A pseudonymous consent identifier.
- An IP-derived value stored in hashed or otherwise irreversibly pseudonymized form.
- Browser or device information.
- Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track status.
We use these records to apply your choices, demonstrate that a choice was recorded, troubleshoot consent behavior, and comply with applicable requirements.
6. Technologies used by the publication
WordPress and WooCommerce
WordPress uses strictly necessary technologies for reader authentication, account security, signed-in commenting, and site operation. WooCommerce uses strictly necessary technologies to maintain a checkout, apply account age restrictions, process eligible U.S.-only transactions, and connect the transaction to hosted payment pages.
A reader must be signed in to comment or complete a WooCommerce transaction. WooCommerce checkout is technically blocked when the account holder is known to be under 18.
SiteGround
SiteGround hosts the publication in the United States and processes web-access and security information needed to deliver and protect the site. Web-access and security logs are retained for up to 30 days. Security controls may temporarily block an IP address or browser, reject a login or comment, or temporarily lock an account.
Google reCAPTCHA v3
Google reCAPTCHA v3 loads only on protected account and comment pages. It runs on those pages before a visitor accepts optional cookies because we treat it as a strictly necessary security service. It processes device, browser, interaction, network, and risk information to identify automated abuse. An automated risk decision may reject the current login or comment.
Google Analytics 4
Google Analytics 4 runs only after analytics consent. It is fully blocked before consent, including denied-state pings. User-level event data is retained for 14 months. Aggregate reports may remain available beyond that period.
Google Signals is enabled only after analytics consent. Advertising personalization is disabled for all regions. The GA4 properties are not linked to Google Ads or another Google advertising product, and they do not receive a pseudonymous User-ID for signed-in readers.
Gravatar
The site requests a Gravatar from Automattic only after a signed-in reader selects Gravatar as a profile-image option. That request may send a hashed form of the reader’s email address along with technical request information to determine whether an image is available.
Browser push notifications
When you enable browser push, our self-hosted system stores a push-subscription endpoint and associated device or browser data until you withdraw the subscription or the endpoint expires. Delivery status, clicks or opens, failures, and expired-endpoint history are retained for 30 days.
You can disable push through reader-account notification settings, browser site-permission settings, or the publication push-settings control.
Mailchimp newsletter pages and messages
Newsletter signup occurs on a Mailchimp-hosted page, not in a form hosted on the publication site. Mailchimp applies its own technologies on its domain and provides links to the Times Media Service Privacy Notice and Mailchimp’s privacy information. Every subscriber uses double opt-in.
Mailchimp open and click tracking is enabled in newsletter messages. Subscriber-level engagement history is retained while the person is subscribed and removed when the contact is reduced to a minimal suppression record. The minimal suppression record is retained indefinitely to honor the opt-out.
Stripe, PayPal, Stripe Tax, and Printful
WooCommerce redirects an eligible customer to a Stripe- or PayPal-hosted payment page. Those providers apply their own necessary security, session, payment, and fraud-screening technologies on their domains. Stripe Tax calculates sales tax at checkout. Printful receives the order and shipping information needed to fulfill merchandise.
Times Media Service LLC does not receive or store a complete payment-card number or card security code. For a recurring subscription, WooCommerce stores only a Stripe or PayPal customer identifier and payment-token reference.
7. Current advertising status
Google AdSense is not active on Times Media Service publication sites. There are no current Google advertising-product links in GA4, and GA4 advertising personalization is disabled for all regions.
The advertising or marketing consent category remains available as a control category but is off by default. It is locked off for a signed-in reader known to be under 18. We will update this Policy and request consent again where required before activating a materially different advertising use.
8. Live cookie and tracker inventory
WPLP automatically scans the publication weekly. We use the reviewed scan results to keep WPLP’s current Policy Data up to date. The inventory below is displayed from that Policy Data rather than maintained as a fixed list in this template.
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The inventory may change as site features or providers change. If a newly detected technology is optional, it must be assigned to the appropriate optional category before it is allowed to run.
9. Age-related controls and sign-out
Times Media Service publications are general-audience publications and are not directed primarily to children under 13. Account creation is blocked worldwide for a person who indicates an age under 13.
The consent flow does not ask a visitor without an account to provide a birth date or declare whether the visitor is under 18. For a signed-in reader whose account shows an age under 18, the advertising or marketing category is locked off.
Outside the United States, consent-based services are restricted to people age 16 or older. This rule is stated in policy but is not separately technically enforced beyond the account age controls described here.
When an under-18 reader signs out, the consent associated with that signed-in state is cleared. Optional cookies and browser identifiers already stored are deleted immediately where controllable.
10. How to manage technologies
You can manage cookies and related technologies in several ways:
- Select Reject All on the first banner layer to leave only strictly necessary technologies active.
- Select Manage Options to make a category-by-category choice.
- Reopen the publication cookie-settings control to change or withdraw optional consent.
- Use browser controls to delete or block cookies and local storage.
- Enable Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track to trigger our optional-category opt-out.
- Disable browser push through account settings, the publication push-settings control, or browser site-permission settings.
Blocking strictly necessary technologies through browser settings may prevent account, comment, security, consent, or checkout features from working. Deleting storage may cause the banner to ask for your choices again.
11. Other websites and provider-hosted pages
Mailchimp signup pages, Stripe and PayPal payment pages, and other linked services operate on separate domains. Their own privacy and cookie notices govern technologies placed on those domains. A choice made in the publication’s WPLP banner does not necessarily control a provider’s hosted page.
12. Changes to this Policy
We may update this Policy when site features, providers, scans, or legal requirements change. We will show a revised last-updated date. For a material change, we will also provide a prominent website notice and ask for consent again through WPLP when required.
13. Contact us
Questions about this Cookie Policy or our consent controls may be sent to privacy@timesmediaservice.com.
You may also contact Times Media Service LLC, 32 N Gould St., Suite R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States, by telephone at 307-655-1046.