Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. Our sites use them in three ways. You choose the second and third from the one notice you see on your first visit (Accept all or Necessary only), and you can change your choice at any time from Privacy choices at the foot of the page or the Privacy & cookies section in the Mary chat.
Strictly necessary
Always on. They keep you signed in, remember your cart and language, protect forms against abuse, and let the Mary chat remember which conversation is open. Without them the sites cannot work. Examples: the sign-in session for your Mary Banks ID, the storefront's cart and session token, the language cookie, and the chat's local conversation cache.
Personalization
With your consent. Mary keeps a few notes from your conversations and a short summary so she can help you as one person across all of our sites, and we use your learning and reading history to recommend courses, books, paths and sessions. If you decline, Mary still answers your questions but does not keep notes about you, and her recommendations are based only on what you tell her in the moment. Until you answer the notice, Mary keeps no notes, exactly as if you had declined. If you accept later, she keeps notes only from what you say after that, never from earlier conversations.
Analytics
With your consent. Our sites use PostHog to see which pages and features are used, including recordings and heatmaps of how pages are used (anything you type is hidden), so we can improve them. Nothing is sent to PostHog before you answer the notice, and if you choose Necessary only, nothing is sent at all: no visit count, no cookies, nothing stored on your device, and on later pages PostHog is not even loaded. Some sites also use Vercel Analytics or Google Analytics (the church sites) to count visits without identifying you personally. Error monitoring (Sentry) runs on some sites to catch faults; it records technical details of errors, not what you type.
One choice for all our sites
Because our sites share one sign-in, your choice is saved to your Mary Banks profile the first time you make it while signed in, and every other site honors it. If you are not signed in, browsers keep each site separate, so a site you visit for the first time may ask once more.
Managing cookies
You can also clear or block cookies in your browser settings; blocking strictly necessary cookies will stop sign-in and purchases from working.
This policy is issued jointly by Mary Banks Ministries and Bible Teachers International, Inc. Questions: info@marybanks.net.