Cookie Settings

Last updated: June 25, 2026

This page explains how you can manage your cookie and privacy preferences on PodcastCharts.net.

PodcastCharts.net uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember your privacy choices, measure website traffic, display embedded podcast and video players, show advertising, measure ad performance, and support affiliate links.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time.

How to Change Your Cookie Preferences

You can manage or update your consent choices by clicking the small cookie icon in the bottom-left corner of the website.

When you click the cookie icon, the cookie settings panel will open. From there, you can review, accept, reject, or change your preferences for different types of cookies and similar technologies.

Your updated choices will apply after you save your preferences.

What You Can Manage

Depending on your location and the cookie tools available on PodcastCharts.net, you may be able to manage preferences for categories such as:

strictly necessary cookies
analytics and performance cookies
advertising cookies
personalized advertising
embedded media cookies
affiliate and referral tracking
functionality cookies
similar tracking technologies

Some cookies are essential for the website to work properly and cannot be disabled through the cookie settings panel. These may include cookies used to remember your consent choices, maintain security, prevent abuse, or provide basic website functionality.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are required for PodcastCharts.net to function correctly.

These cookies may be used to:

load the website
remember your cookie preferences
maintain security
prevent spam, fraud, or abuse
support WordPress functionality
keep the website stable and reliable

Because these cookies are necessary, they may remain active even if you reject optional cookies.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use PodcastCharts.net.

We use, or may use, tools such as Google Analytics and Google Site Kit to measure website traffic, popular pages, referral sources, device types, and general visitor behavior.

These cookies help us improve our articles, rankings, podcast coverage, website design, and user experience.

Where required by law, analytics cookies will only be used if you consent to them.

Advertising Cookies

PodcastCharts.net uses, or plans to use, advertising services such as Google AdSense.

Advertising cookies may be used to:

display ads
measure ad impressions and clicks
prevent the same ad from appearing too often
detect invalid traffic or ad fraud
personalize ads where permitted by law and your consent choices
show contextual or non-personalized ads where personalization is not enabled

Depending on your location and choices, you may see personalized ads, non-personalized ads, contextual ads, or limited ads.

You can manage advertising-related preferences through the cookie settings panel by clicking the small cookie icon in the bottom-left corner.

Embedded Media Cookies

PodcastCharts.net may use embedded media players from third-party platforms, including but not limited to:

YouTube
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
Amazon Music
other podcast, audio, video, and streaming platforms

When these embedded players load or when you interact with them, the third-party platform may use cookies or similar technologies. These technologies may be used to display the player, measure plays or views, remember playback settings, personalize content, or connect activity to your account on that platform if you are logged in.

Where required by law, embedded media may be blocked, delayed, or replaced with a placeholder until you provide consent.

Affiliate and Referral Cookies

PodcastCharts.net may contain affiliate links to third-party websites, vendors, services, platforms, subscriptions, retailers, or other commercial offers.

If you click an affiliate link, a third-party affiliate network or vendor may use cookies, tracking links, or similar technologies to recognize that you came from PodcastCharts.net. If you later make a purchase, sign up, subscribe, or complete another qualifying action, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.

Affiliate tracking may be controlled by third-party vendors or affiliate networks, and their own privacy and cookie policies may apply.

U.S. Privacy Choices

PodcastCharts.net mainly targets visitors in the United States, but visitors from around the world may access the site.

Some U.S. state privacy laws may give residents the right to opt out of certain types of targeted advertising, sale, or sharing of personal information.

PodcastCharts.net does not sell personal information in the traditional sense of exchanging visitor information for money. However, some advertising, analytics, affiliate, and tracking technologies may be considered “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” under certain U.S. privacy laws.

Where applicable, you may manage these choices through:

the cookie icon in the bottom-left corner
the cookie settings panel
a “Your Privacy Choices” link, if displayed
a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link, if displayed

Visitors from the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Similar Regions

If you visit PodcastCharts.net from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another region with similar privacy laws, we may ask for your consent before using non-essential cookies and similar technologies.

This may include consent for:

analytics cookies
advertising cookies
personalized advertising
embedded media cookies
audience measurement
affiliate tracking
storing or accessing information on your device

You can withdraw or change your consent at any time by clicking the small cookie icon in the bottom-left corner.

Browser Cookie Controls

You can also manage cookies through your browser settings.

Most browsers allow you to:

delete cookies
block all cookies
block third-party cookies
clear cookies when you close your browser
manage cookies for specific websites

Please note that browser settings are separate from the cookie settings panel on PodcastCharts.net. If you delete cookies from your browser, your saved consent choices may also be deleted, and you may need to set your preferences again the next time you visit the website.

Changes to Cookie Settings

We may update our cookie settings, consent tools, cookie categories, advertising technologies, analytics tools, embedded media providers, affiliate programs, or third-party partners from time to time.

If we make changes, we may update this page and/or our Cookie Policy.

For more information, please review: