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Cookies Policy
Last updated: 30 October 2026
We use cookies, pixels, and other technologies (collectively, “cookies”) to recognise your browser or device, learn more about your interests, and provide you with essential features and services, and for additional purposes, including:
- Recognising you when you sign in to use our services. This lets us recommend titles, show personalised content, recognise you as a customer, partner or subscriber, and provide other customised features.
- Keeping track of your specified preferences, such as the currency prices are shown in and how the reader is set up.
- Keeping track of what you have borrowed or bought.
- Conducting research and diagnostics to improve Verno’s content, products and services.
- Preventing fraudulent activity.
- Improving security.
- Delivering content, including advertising, relevant to your interests on Verno sites and third-party sites.
- Reporting, which lets us measure and analyse how our services perform.
Verno’s cookies let you take advantage of some of Verno’s essential features. If you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able to sign in, buy or borrow titles, or use any Verno service that requires an account.
Introduction
We use cookies and similar technologies such as tags and tracking pixels on Verno services and digital platforms — websites, portals and applications including vernobooks.com and the Verno reader — to keep them working, to give you the best experience, and to make sure anything we send you is relevant.
This policy sets out the cookies we and our partners set and how they are used, so that you can make an informed choice about using our platforms.
A cookie is a small text file that your browser can store on the device you use to access the internet, and which lets the browser pass small amounts of information about how a platform is used back to a web server. Other technologies — a pixel, a tag, or analysis of certain characteristics that identify a device — can be used instead. We refer to all of them here as cookies.
We use our own cookies and those of third parties, both to run our platforms — keeping you signed in, remembering what you were reading — and to monitor visits so we can keep improving. Our marketing partners also use cookies to measure how our advertising performs and to show you relevant Verno advertising elsewhere.
Cookie consent
The first time you use a Verno platform you are told about our use of cookies and can decide which, if any, of the non-essential cookies to allow — or accept all of them.
Your choice is recorded against the device you used, and kept for a year from the last time you visited, after which we will ask again.
What cookies we use
These are the categories, and what each is for:
EssentialCannot be disabled
These let you buy ebooks, services and subscriptions on our digital platforms securely, and keep the service stable when traffic is high. They cannot be switched off.
Performance
These help us improve the platform by analysing anonymously how our pages perform and how they are used, so we can find the ones that are harder to use than they should be.
Marketing
These let us show you Verno advertising on other sites and services, based on what you have looked at here, so that the advertising you see is relevant to you.
Your cookie choices
You have not made a choice yet, so only essential cookies are in use.
Your choice is kept on this browser, so you will be asked again on a different browser or device.
How to control cookies
You can decide which cookies to allow, block or delete by following the instructions your browser provides. You can also change your mind with us at any time using the controls above.
Cookies are specific to each browser, so if you use more than one you will need to set your choice — or block and delete non-essential cookies — in each of them. Rejecting cookies may mean you do not get the best experience of our platforms.
Approved third parties may also set cookies when you use Verno platforms. These include providers of measurement and analytics services, social networks and advertising companies, which use cookies to deliver content and advertising relevant to your interests, to measure how effective it is, and to perform services on Verno’s behalf.
Most browsers’ Help menu will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive one, how to block them, and when they expire. If you block all cookies, neither we nor third parties can set them — but you may have to set some preferences again on every visit, and some features will not work. Some mobile operating systems limit these technologies further, and your choices here do not override those settings.
To find out more about cookies in general, including how to see what has been set on a browser and how to manage and delete them, visit allaboutcookies.org.
See our Privacy Policy for more about the information we gather.
What Verno stores on your device
These are set by Verno itself, on this site, and none of them is a cookie — your browser keeps them as site data, which it clears alongside cookies when you clear a site.
| Name | What it is for |
|---|---|
| verno.auth | Keeps you signed in between visits, and the session this browser is on. |
| verno.device | Identifies this device so a book can be licensed to read on it. |
| verno.in_profile | Remembers which family profile this tab is reading as. |
| verno.reader.preferences | Your font, size, theme and page layout in the reader. |
| verno.reader.place.v1 | Where you stopped in each book, so it reopens there. |
| verno.currency | The currency prices are shown in. |
| verno.theme | Light or dark. |
| verno.cookie_consent.v1 | Your choice on this page, so you are not asked again. |
The full cookie list
Cookies and similar technologies used by Verno and its approved third parties. Last updated 17 October 2026.
Essential
| Provider | Description |
|---|---|
| Verno | Buy products, services and subscriptions on Verno digital platforms |
| Ensighten | Data and tag management; cookie consent management for Verno sites and digital platforms |
| Akamai | Content delivery network for media and software delivery, and cloud security |
| Google Maps | Maps service to show the location of Verno offices and service centres |
| New Relic | Application performance management and real user monitoring for cloud and data-centre web applications |
| Cloudinary | Media management and optimisation |
| Monetate | Provides a relevant web experience based on day-to-day changes to platform content |
| Google Translate | Enables platform content to be translated into other languages |
| Cloudflare | Content delivery network, DNS, DDoS protection and security |
| Live Chat | Live chat software to communicate with platform users |
| WP Engine | Hosting of blog pages |
| PayPal | Payment method on digital platforms |
| TripAdvisor | Presents TripAdvisor ratings of products and services being viewed |
| Amazon AWS & CloudFront | Content delivery network that securely delivers data, video, applications and APIs |
| Google Cloud Platform | Content delivery network that securely delivers data and APIs |
| YouTube | Displays Verno videos |
| Displays Instagram images on the Verno blog |
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Performance
| Provider | Description |
|---|---|
| Google Analytics | Analytics service that tracks visitor behaviour and measures site performance |
| Hotjar | Analytics service that tracks the user experience of the website |
| VAS | Verno's own analytics service |
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Marketing
| Provider | Description |
|---|---|
| Awin | Affiliate marketing network for advertisers, agencies and publishers |
| MoEngage | Customer engagement platform for web push and personalisation |
| Adcash | Ad-serving platform for online campaigns |
| Bing | Ad-serving platform for online campaigns |
| Kayak | Price comparison site |
| Sojern | Digital travel marketing solutions |
| Luzme | Price comparison site for ebooks |
| 123pricecheck | Price comparison site for ebooks |
| Dooreads | Direct links to major ebook retailers on book pages, so Verno can check prices across platforms |
| Kenshoo | Marketing platform for search marketing, social media and online advertising |
| DoubleClick | Digital marketing technology for ad-serving, media, video, search and affiliate marketing |
| Technology marketing platform for search |
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