Cookie policy

1. What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store. Some are essential to making a site work. Others exist to measure behaviour or to follow you between sites for advertising. The distinction matters, both in law and in practice.

2. The position on this site

As of the date of this version, this site sets:

• Strictly necessary technical cookies. From the website platform and caching layer. No consent required.
• Google Analytics cookies. Set only where you have consented, to measure which pages are useful.
• No advertising cookies. There is no advertising on this site.
• No social or sharing trackers. There are no social embeds or share pixels.
• No cross-site advertising profiles.

3. Cookies that may be set

These come from the website platform rather than from anything added for measurement or advertising:

Strictly necessary, set without consent:

• Session and authentication cookies. Set only if you log in to the site's administration area, which applies to the publisher and not to readers.
• Caching and performance cookies. The caching layer may set a technical cookie to serve the correct version of a page. It carries no identifying information about you.
• Security cookies. May be set to protect forms and administrative functions against abuse.

Analytics, set only with your consent:

• Google Analytics cookies (typically named _ga and _ga_ followed by a property identifier). They distinguish one visitor from another so that visit counts are meaningful, and they expire after a period set by Google. They do not identify you by name and are not used for advertising.

4. Consent

Under EU rules, strictly necessary cookies need no consent, and non-essential ones do. Because this site runs Google Analytics, a consent banner asks before any analytics cookie is set.

If you decline, no analytics cookie is set and nothing about the site changes for you. You can change your mind later by clearing cookies for this site, which brings the banner back.

5. If this changes

Advertising is possible in future. If it happens, this page will be updated to list every cookie involved before any of them is set, the consent banner will cover them, and the privacy policy will be updated at the same time. The version number here will change when it does.

6. Controlling cookies yourself

Every major browser lets you see, block, and delete cookies, usually under privacy or site settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect how pages are served, but it will not stop you reading the site.

7. Fonts and external requests

Typefaces may be loaded from a third-party font service. That is not a cookie, but it does mean your browser makes a request to that service, which receives your IP address as part of it. This is noted in the privacy policy as well.

8. Contact

Questions about cookies or anything else on this page: hello@visittosyria.com.