Cookie Policy

Cookies are small pieces of information stored on or accessed through your device when you visit a website.

Websites may also use related technologies, including local storage and similar browser technologies.

Some of these technologies are necessary for a website to function correctly. Others may be used for analytics, optional functionality, embedded third-party content or marketing.

The Sovereign Forge may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Operate and secure the website
• Maintain essential website functionality
• Remember your privacy and cookie preferences
• Support authentication and account functionality
• Understand website usage where analytics consent has been provided
• Enable optional third-party functionality or embedded media
• Support marketing technologies where consent has been provided

Non-essential technologies requiring consent are disabled by default and should not activate until the appropriate consent has been provided.

Strictly Necessary. These technologies are required for essential website functions such as website operation, security, session management, authentication, and maintaining your privacy and cookie preferences. Where legally permitted, strictly necessary technologies operate without consent because the website may not function correctly without them. They cannot be disabled through our consent manager where they are genuinely necessary.

Analytics. Analytics technologies help us understand how visitors interact with The Sovereign Forge so that we can improve website performance, usability and content. Analytics technologies requiring consent are disabled by default and activate only if you choose to allow them.

Functional / Third-Party Media. These technologies may support optional website functionality or external services such as embedded video and other third-party media. Where consent is required, these services remain disabled until you choose to allow them. Some embedded content may therefore display a privacy placeholder until the necessary category has been enabled.

Marketing. Marketing technologies may be used to understand campaign effectiveness, measure interactions or support relevant advertising and communications. Marketing technologies requiring consent are disabled by default and activate only if you choose to allow them.

When you first visit The Sovereign Forge, the cookie consent manager provides three primary options:

• Accept All — Allows all optional cookie categories.
• Reject All — Rejects optional technologies requiring consent while allowing only technologies genuinely necessary for operation of the website.
• Manage Preferences — Allows you to choose individually which optional categories you wish to enable. Optional categories must not be pre-selected on your behalf.

Rejecting optional cookies will not prevent normal access to The Sovereign Forge, although certain optional third-party functionality may not operate.

You can open the consent manager at any time by selecting Cookie Settings in the footer.

You may change your cookie preferences at any time.

Select Cookie Settings in the footer of any page to reopen the consent manager.

You can then:

• Accept optional categories
• Reject optional categories
• Enable or disable individual categories
• Withdraw previously granted consent

Withdrawing consent will apply to future processing and should prevent future activation of technologies associated with the category you have disabled.

The cookies and similar technologies actually used by The Sovereign Forge depend on the services currently active on the website. The cookie consent manager and website configuration should accurately reflect the technologies detected and deployed on the live website. We do not intentionally list technologies that are not actually in use.

At present, the only stored item is your consent choice, kept in your browser’s local storage under tsf_cookie_consent. No analytics, marketing or third-party media technologies are currently active.

Your recorded consent choice remains valid for 12 months. After that period it expires and the consent manager is presented again so you can renew, change or withdraw your choice. You may also change it at any time before then via “Cookie Settings” in the footer.

The Sovereign Forge will periodically review its cookie configuration and update this policy when services or technologies materially change.

Certain website functionality may be provided by third-party technology providers. These may include, where actually deployed: website infrastructure and hosting providers, authentication and database providers, analytics services, payment or commerce platforms, video and media providers, social-media integrations, email or communication services, and security and performance services.

Where a third-party service uses optional technologies requiring consent, the relevant service should remain disabled until the appropriate consent category has been accepted. Third-party providers may process certain information independently under their own privacy policies.

Some pages may contain content supplied by external providers, such as embedded videos. Where loading that content would activate technologies requiring consent or transmit information to the external provider, the content should remain blocked until the relevant consent has been provided.

A visitor may be shown a placeholder explaining that the relevant cookie category must be enabled before the content can be displayed.

Most web browsers also allow users to manage or delete cookies through browser settings.

Please be aware that disabling strictly necessary cookies or browser storage through your browser may affect website functionality.

Our own Cookie Settings control is the preferred method for managing optional technologies used by The Sovereign Forge.

We may update this Cookie Policy when:

• Technologies used by the website change
• New services are introduced
• Existing services are removed
• Our privacy practices change
• Applicable legal or regulatory requirements change

The current version will always be published on this page together with its last-updated date.

If you have questions about our use of cookies or similar technologies, contact:

The Sovereign Forge
Privacy Contact: schullerkim0@gmail.com

You may also use the Data Request page for privacy-related enquiries.