1. What Are Cookies & Storage Technologies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) by websites that you visit. Alongside cookies, modern websites may utilise related terminal storage mechanisms such as local storage, session storage, and tracking pixels (web beacons) to store and retrieve data on your equipment.
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR), the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), and the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, terminal equipment storage is strictly regulated. Websites operating in the United Kingdom are prohibited from accessing or storing information on your device unless:
- The technology is strictly necessary for the provision of an information society service explicitly requested by you; or
- You have provided prior, informed, affirmative consent following clear and comprehensive disclosure.
2. Exhaustive Technology Inventory for emindeniz.uk
We conduct regular technical audits of our digital assets. Below is the verified inventory of technologies that may be deployed on our website:
A. Strictly Necessary Technologies (Always Active)
These technologies are essential for the technical operation, authentication security, and anti-abuse protection of our website. They do not require consent under PECR Regulation 6(4).
| Identifier | Provider | Purpose | Lifespan | Exemption Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | First-party (emindeniz.uk) | Maintains stateful security, administrative login session, and stores anti-CSRF cryptographic tokens to prevent form submission forgery attacks. | Session (expires on browser close) | Strictly Necessary (Security & Core Service Delivery) |
| ed_cookie_consent | First-party (emindeniz.uk) | Records your explicit cookie consent preferences (necessary, analytics, marketing choices and timestamp) so your choices are respected across page loads. | 180 Days | Strictly Necessary (Statutory Compliance Record) |
B. Analytics & Performance Measurement (Optional • Default: BLOCKED)
These technologies measure how visitors navigate and interact with our website, helping us detect navigation bottlenecks, optimize page loading speeds, and understand which service content is most helpful.
| Identifier | Provider | Purpose | Lifespan | Default State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Ltd) | Calculates aggregate visitor, session, and campaign data for site analytics reports. Zero personally identifying form data is transmitted. | 2 Years (when active) | BLOCKED until affirmative consent is granted AND a valid account is provisioned. |
C. Marketing & Conversion Attribution (Optional • Default: BLOCKED)
These technologies evaluate the effectiveness of our paid search and social campaigns (such as Google Ads or Meta Advertising), attributing genuine business enquiries back to marketing sources without transferring raw personal contact information.
| Identifier | Provider | Purpose | Lifespan | Default State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd | Delivers and measures advertising attribution on Meta platforms (Facebook and Instagram). | 90 Days | BLOCKED until affirmative consent is granted. |
| _gcl_au | Google LLC (Google Ads) | Measures conversion efficiency and ad click attribution for Google Search & Performance Max campaigns. | 90 Days | BLOCKED until affirmative consent is granted. |
3. Google Consent Mode v2 Architecture
Our website implements Google Consent Mode v2. By default, before you take any action on our cookie consent banner, our application establishes four conservative default consent parameters:
gtag('consent', 'default', {
'ad_storage': 'denied',
'analytics_storage': 'denied',
'ad_user_data': 'denied',
'ad_personalization': 'denied'
});
Only when you actively click "Accept All" or select the respective category in our Preferences Manager are these states elevated to 'granted'. If you select "Reject Optional", these signals remain strictly 'denied', preventing terminal device access.
4. How to Control or Revoke Your Choices
Consent under the UK GDPR must be as easy to withdraw as it was to grant. You can change your preferences at any time through two primary mechanisms:
Click the "Cookie Preferences" button in our website footer or click below to launch the modal dialog. Adjust your choices and click "Save Preferences". If you revoke consent, any accessible client-side cookies associated with optional categories will be automatically cleared.
Most modern web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can configure your browser to block all cookies, accept only first-party cookies, or delete cookies when you close your browser. Please consult your browser documentation:
5. Questions & Technical Inquiries
If you have questions regarding our implementation of cookies or data privacy controls, please email our engineering team at bymrdeniz@gmail.com.