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Cookie Policy
This page explains what cookies are, which ones this website uses, why it uses them, and how you can manage your preferences. We aim to be direct and clear on each point.
Last updated: January 2025
1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device when you visit. They are used for a range of purposes — from keeping you logged in, to understanding how visitors use the site, to enabling advertising platforms to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns.
Cookies are not programs and cannot access other files on your device. They are read only by the website or third-party service that set them.
Similar technologies include pixel tags (also called web beacons), which are small images embedded in pages or emails that register when they are loaded. These are used by analytics and advertising services alongside or instead of cookies and are covered by this policy.
2. How We Use Cookies
This website — cinder-wenthor — uses cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential operation: To record your cookie consent preference so that we do not prompt you on every page visit.
- Analytics: To understand how visitors navigate the site — which pages are viewed, how long visitors spend, and via which channel they arrived. This helps us improve the content and structure of the website over time.
- Advertising measurement: To understand whether visitors who clicked on one of our advertisements went on to contact us. This helps us understand which advertising efforts are effective.
We do not use cookies to collect information that identifies you personally, and we do not sell visitor data to third parties.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the basic functioning of the website. They do not collect personal data for marketing or analytics purposes and cannot be switched off.
Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website by collecting information in an aggregated form. No information is used to identify individual visitors.
Advertising Measurement Cookies
These cookies are set by advertising platforms to measure whether an advertisement led to a contact or conversion on this website. They do not enable us to re-target you with advertisements.
4. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on this website are set by third-party services, not by Cinder Wenthor directly. These include Google Analytics, Meta, and Microsoft Bing. Each of these services has its own privacy policy governing how they use the data collected.
We use Google Maps on our contact page to display our location. Google may set cookies when the map is loaded. Their use of data is governed by Google's Privacy Policy.
We do not control third-party cookies and encourage you to review the privacy policies of these providers if you have concerns about how they handle data.
- Google Privacy Policy: policies.google.com/privacy
- Meta Privacy Policy: www.facebook.com/privacy/policy
- Microsoft Privacy Statement: privacy.microsoft.com
5. Your Choices
When you first visit this website, a consent notice is displayed that allows you to accept or decline non-essential cookies. You may change your preference at any time by clearing your browser's cookie for this site and revisiting — the consent notice will reappear.
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
- View cookies currently stored on your device
- Delete cookies individually or in bulk
- Block cookies from specific websites or from all websites
- Configure settings to prompt you before accepting cookies
Note that declining or deleting analytics and advertising cookies will not affect your ability to use this website or to contact us. Essential cookies are required for the consent mechanism itself to function and cannot be disabled through our notice.
Browser-specific instructions for managing cookies are available in each browser's help documentation.
6. Consent and Withdrawal
Non-essential cookies (analytics and advertising measurement) are only set after you accept the cookie consent notice on your first visit. If you decline, these cookies are not set and the corresponding tracking scripts are not loaded.
You may withdraw consent at any time by clearing the cw_cookie_consent cookie from your browser settings and reloading the site, at which point the consent notice will appear again and you may make a fresh choice.
Withdrawing consent applies from that point forward. It does not affect any data that was collected during a prior period of consent.
7. Cookie Retention Periods
Cookie durations are set by each respective service and are listed in the tables in Section 3. As a general guide:
- Session cookies — expire when you close your browser
- Persistent cookies — remain for the stated duration or until you delete them manually
We review which third-party services we use and their associated cookies periodically. This policy is updated when changes are made.
8. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy if we add or remove services, or if legal requirements change. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects when the policy was last revised. Continued use of this website after a revision constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
Material changes — such as the addition of a new category of cookie — will be reflected in an updated consent notice on revisit.