Cookie policy & signal etiquette

Essence of a cookie

A cookie is a modest text fragment that your browser stores so servers can recognise returning visitors, honour preferences, or—when lawfully permitted—assemble anonymised statistics. Contemporaneous cousins include local storage keys, session storage pulses, pixel tags, and software development kits embedded only after consent.

Custodian and reverent contact

Consent theatre and its serious backend

Upon entry you encounter a banner offering Accept all, Reject, or Cookie settings. Strictly necessary signals deploy immediately because without them no secure session or fraud defence could exist. Analytics and marketing layers initialise only after affirmative toggles or a whole-hearted accept. Your verdict is mirrored into localStorage key wenora_cookie_prefs_v1, creating durable proof of decision without exposing personal narratives.

Instrument inventory & notional lifetimes

• Strictly necessary: routing affinity, rate limiting fingerprints, CSRF companions, consent receipts—sessional to twelve months depending on role.
• Analytics (opt-in): pseudonymous page choreography, conversion funnels, error telemetry—typically thirteen months unless you withdraw sooner.
• Marketing (opt-in): attribution partners, creative rotation diagnostics—retention governed by partner contracts trimmed to EU minima.

Concrete cookie names evolve as vendors release revisions; substantive mutations trigger a renewed notice cycle.

Revocation, browser mutiny, and silent failures

You may replay preferences anytime by clearing site storage or requesting a reset link from support. Browser-level blocking may cripple checkout or captcha flows; we document such conflicts in our FAQ. If you withdraw analytics consent mid-session, residual pings already dispatched cannot be retracted from logs but future emissions halt.

Third-party elevations & SCC posture

Optional cookies occasionally invoke vendors whose legal residence spans the Atlantic. Where EU adequacy does not exist we bind them through Standard Contractual Clauses, supplemental technical measures, and periodic reassessment following Schrems II jurisprudence.

Evolution & your recourse

We amend this instrument when inventory, law, or supervisory guidance shifts. The issuance stamp above tracks major revisions. Continued browsing after publication acknowledges the new text unless fresh opt-in is legally indispensable—for example if we introduce novel marketing beacons.

Questions deserving a personalised ledger excerpt may be directed to the email above with subject “Cookie attestation”.