Cookie Policy

1. What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage, pixels, and software development kits. Together they let a site remember preferences, keep sessions coherent, secure the experience, and measure aggregate usage. This Policy explains our use of these technologies and supplements our Privacy Policy.

2. Categories of Cookies We Use

We deliberately keep our footprint minimal. We do not run advertising networks, retargeting pixels, or cross-site behavioral tracking on this Site.

• Strictly necessary — required for the Site to function: page routing, security, load balancing, and remembering your cookie-consent choice. These cannot be switched off and do not require consent under applicable law.
• Preference — remember non-essential choices such as dismissed notices or display settings, so the experience stays consistent between visits.
• Analytics / performance — help us understand, in aggregate, which pages are read, how visitors navigate, and where the experience fails. Data is aggregated and, where supported, IP addresses are truncated or anonymized.
• Third-party embeds — if a page includes an embedded map, video, or font service, that provider may set its own cookies governed by its own policy. We limit such embeds and prefer privacy-respecting configurations.

3. What We Do Not Do

We do not sell cookie data. We do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not build advertising profiles about you, and we do not use cookies to make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

4. Legal Basis and Consent

For visitors in jurisdictions requiring prior consent (including the EEA, the United Kingdom, and similar regimes), non-essential cookies are set only after you accept them through the consent notice presented on your first visit. Strictly necessary cookies are set on the basis of our legitimate interest in operating a secure, functional website. For U.S. visitors, cookie usage is disclosed here and, where applicable, subject to your opt-out rights described in our Privacy Policy.

You may withdraw or change your consent at any time using the cookie preferences control available in the site footer. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

5. Managing Cookies in Your Browser

Independent of our consent notice, every major browser lets you review, block, or delete cookies. Consult the privacy or security settings in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, or your mobile browser. You may also browse in a private or incognito window, which discards cookies at the end of the session.

Please note that blocking all cookies — including strictly necessary ones — may impair navigation, security features, and the persistence of your preferences on this and most other websites.

6. Retention

Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain for a defined period — typically no longer than twelve (12) months for preference and consent records, and generally shorter for analytics identifiers — after which they expire or are refreshed subject to your continued consent.

7. Changes to This Cookie Policy

As our technology stack evolves, this Policy will be updated with a revised "Last updated" date. Where a change materially expands the categories of data collected, we will re-present the consent notice.