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Cookie Policy
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This policy explains how nitalee.com uses cookies and similar technologies, and how you choose which ones it may use.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files a website saves in your browser so it can remember something between pages or visits. Browser storage (like local storage) works in a similar way.
Your choices
When you first visit, a banner asks which cookies you allow. You can accept all, reject all optional cookies, or choose by category. Until you choose, only essential cookies are used. Nothing optional loads before then.
You can change your mind anytime with Your privacy choices at the bottom of every page, or with the button below. If you turn a category off, the cookies this site set for it are removed.
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, I treat it as a request to opt out of marketing cookies, and they stay off.
Every cookie this site uses
This is the complete list. These are the only cookies this site sets, even if you allow every category, and it keeps nothing in your browser’s local or session storage. The site’s own cookies last 6 months at most. Google Analytics cookies, which are only set if you allow performance cookies, can last up to 2 years.
| Name | What it’s for | How long | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
nitalee_consent | Remembers your cookie choices so the banner doesn’t ask again. | 6 months | Essential |
PHPSESSID | Set only when you send the contact form, to limit it to one message every 30 seconds and stop spam. | Until you close your browser | Essential |
_ga | Google Analytics: a random ID that tells visits apart so visitors can be counted in aggregate. | 2 years | Performance |
_ga_18MEF270V3 | Google Analytics: keeps track of the current visit (session) for this site’s analytics property. | 2 years | Performance |
No marketing cookies are set today, and the site uses no advertising pixels. If I add another tag later, it will only run if you allow its category, and I’ll list its cookies here first.
The categories
Essential
Needed for the site to work, so they’re always on. They are only used to remember your cookie choice and to protect the contact form from spam.
Performance
Used only if you allow them. Google Analytics 4, loaded through Google Tag Manager, tells me in aggregate how people find and use the site: page views, and clicks on buttons and social profile links. I use it to improve the site, not to identify you.
Marketing
Used only if you allow them. Advertising tags that would measure whether an ad led to a visit. None are used today.
Google Tag Manager and Consent Mode
This site loads Google Tag Manager (container GTM-W9Z5NXXH), a tool for managing site tags. Tag Manager itself sets no cookies. The only tags in it are the Google Analytics tags described above, and each one requires your consent for performance cookies before it runs.
The site also uses Google Consent Mode. Before Tag Manager loads, it tells every tag that analytics and advertising storage are denied. They only switch to granted for the categories you allow. If you don’t allow performance cookies, Google Analytics doesn’t load at all.
Services that load without cookies
Some files come from other companies’ servers. They receive your IP address and browser details, like any website you visit, but this site doesn’t ask them to set cookies:
- Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com): the Fraunces and Inter typefaces.
- jQuery CDN (code.jquery.com): the jQuery library the site uses.
- Google Tag Manager (googletagmanager.com): the Tag Manager script itself, which sets no cookies.
Controlling cookies in your browser
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking essential cookies may stop the contact form from working. Here’s how in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge.
Changes and questions
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too, and if I add a new kind of cookie the banner will ask you again. For more on how I handle personal information, see the Privacy Policy. Questions? Use the contact form.