Cookie Policy
1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser when you visit a website. They can remember session state, settings, and interactions, and may also support analytics and service optimization.
2. How We Use Cookies
Under the EU ePrivacy rules and GDPR, strictly necessary cookies are used on the basis of legitimate necessity for website operation, while non-essential cookies require your prior consent. Our consent system blocks non-essential cookies before consent, supports granular choices, allows withdrawal at any time, and keeps consent logs for compliance. Cookie lifetimes vary by purpose (session cookies expire when the browser closes; persistent cookies are retained for defined periods and then removed or refreshed).
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for core site functionality, such as page routing, security protections, load balancing, consent-state storage, and accessibility/session continuity. They cannot be switched off in our systems because the website cannot operate properly without them.
Analytics, Preference, and Optional Marketing Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand traffic and improve content. Preference cookies remember settings such as language or consent choices. Optional marketing cookies (if enabled) support campaign measurement and outreach optimization. These categories are non-essential and are set only after your explicit consent.
4. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be set by trusted third-party providers acting as processors (for example, analytics, payment, email, embedded media, or security services). These providers process data under contract and only for defined purposes, subject to GDPR-level safeguards.
- Google Analytics: Google Analytics (only if consented): used to measure website usage and improve services; data handling is subject to contractual safeguards and provider privacy terms.
5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can review, grant, refuse, or withdraw consent for non-essential cookie categories at any time through our cookie preferences tool. Changes apply prospectively and are logged for compliance evidence.
6. Browser Cookie Settings
You can also disable or delete cookies through browser settings (for example, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge). Blocking all cookies may impact site functionality, especially features relying on strictly necessary cookies.
7. Changes to This Policy
We may revise this Cookie Policy to reflect legal or technical changes. The latest version will be posted on this page with an updated date, and where required we will ask for renewed consent.
8. Contact Us
For questions about this Cookie Policy or consent management, contact avesta nature at info@avestanature.org.