What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help the website function properly, provide analytics data, and improve your browsing experience.
How We Use Cookies
This Website uses cookies for the following purposes:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the Website to function and cannot be switched off. They are usually set in response to actions you take, such as setting your privacy preferences.
- cookie_consent — Stores your cookie consent preferences. Duration: 365 days.
Analytics
This Website uses Plausible Analytics Community Edition (self-hosted) to understand how visitors interact with the Website. Plausible is designed to be privacy-friendly and does not use cookies — no cookie is set on your device for analytics purposes. All data is collected in aggregate and anonymously, and is stored on our own server.
How to Manage Cookies
When you first visit the Website, a cookie banner will ask for your consent before any non-essential cookies are placed. You can change your preferences at any time by clearing your browser cookies and revisiting the Website.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings:
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies
- Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
- Edge: Settings → Cookies and Site Permissions
Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of some features on the Website.
YouTube Cookies
Our Contact page embeds a YouTube video using privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). In this mode, YouTube does not set cookies until you actively play the video. Once played, the following cookies may be set:
- VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE — Estimates user bandwidth. Duration: 6 months.
- YSC — Registers a unique ID for video statistics. Duration: session.
- PREF — Stores user preferences. Duration: 8 months.
Full YouTube functionality is only enabled after you accept all cookies via our consent banner. YouTube’s privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.
How to Withdraw Consent
You can withdraw your cookie consent at any time by:
- Clicking the “Manage Cookies” link in the footer of any page — this will reset your preferences, delete analytics cookies, and re-display the consent banner
- Clearing cookies in your browser settings
When you withdraw consent, all non-essential cookies will be removed.
Consent Records
When you interact with our cookie banner, we store the following consent record locally on your device: consent level (all cookies or necessary only), timestamp (ISO 8601 format), and policy version. This record is used solely to remember your preferences and is not transmitted to any server.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Please check this page periodically for changes.
Contact
If you have questions about our use of cookies, contact us at info@marinelaardelean.com.