Cookie Policy

2Cookies this site uses

The cookies on this site fall into three categories. Only the first is used without asking you, because without it we could not give you what you asked for:

• Necessary. Just one, NEXT_LOCALE, which stores the language you chose so we do not have to ask on every page. It is set by our own server, lasts one year, and is exempt from consent because it serves a preference you requested yourself.
• Analytics, only with your permission. Google Analytics 4, which tells us which pages are visited and how people reach them. It installs Google cookies on our domain: _ga and _ga_<identifier>, which last up to two years, and _gid and _gat, which last hours or minutes and serve to tell consecutive requests apart.
• Marketing, only with your permission. The Meta pixel, to measure how our ads perform. It installs _fbp and, if you arrive from an ad, _fbc, both lasting around three months.

3Your decision, and how to change it

The first time you visit we ask you, and until you answer nothing analytics or marketing related loads: the Google and Meta scripts are not even present on the page. Refusing costs exactly what accepting costs and sits in the same banner, with the same weight. The checkboxes in the detail panel are never pre-ticked. You can change your mind whenever you like from "Cookie preferences" in the footer of any page. Your decision expires after twenty-four months, at which point we ask again; we also ask again if we change the categories or the tools inside them, because permission given for one set does not cover another.

4What happens when you withdraw permission

When you withdraw it we delete the analytics and marketing cookies set on our own domain, and reload the page, because a script that has already loaded cannot be unloaded any other way. The deletion is repeated on every visit while there is no permission, so that no trace of an earlier decision or an expired consent remains. Deletion is by category: if you accept analytics and refuse marketing, the Meta cookies go and the Google ones stay. There is one honest limit worth knowing: no website can delete cookies that Google or Meta hold on their own domains, such as google.com or facebook.com. Those depend on your browser settings and on your account with those services.

5Other storage in your browser

Besides cookies, this site stores two things in your browser, and they are not the same kind of storage. The first, t360-consent, lives in local storage (localStorage) and holds your cookie decision: the categories you accepted, the policy version, and the date. It stays until you clear the site's data, and it is what lets us avoid asking again on every page. The second, chunk-load-reload-attempted, lives in session storage (sessionStorage), which belongs to a single tab: it is used when a file on the site fails to download, it allows one single reload and prevents an endless reload loop, and it disappears when you close the tab. Neither is sent to any server.

6The record of your consent

The law requires us to be able to demonstrate that consent was given, not merely to collect it. So when you answer the banner we store a record on our server with what you accepted or refused, the policy version, the language, the date, your IP address, and your browser identification. The IP address is stored for this alone and for the same period as the record, twenty-four months, after which it is deleted automatically. This record is created whether you accept or refuse, because proof of a refusal matters just as much.

7International transfers

If you accept analytics or marketing cookies, Google and Meta also process the corresponding data in the United States. Both are certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and its UK Extension, which the European Commission regards as providing an adequate level of protection. If you do not accept them, no transfer takes place, because their tools never load.

8Managing cookies in your browser

Independently of our own preferences panel, your browser lets you accept, refuse, or delete cookies, and block third-party ones. Bear in mind that if you delete the language cookie the site will go back to showing whatever language it detects from your browser, and that if you block storage altogether we will have to ask about cookies on every visit, because we will be unable to remember your answer.

9Changes to this policy

We may amend this policy if the tools we use or the applicable law change. When we do, we will update the date and version shown at the top and publish the new text on this same page. If the change affects anything that requires your permission, we will ask you again.

10Versions in other languages

This document is published in the languages of the site so that you can read it in your own. Translations are offered as a courtesy and, in the event of any discrepancy between versions, the English version prevails.