Cookie policy

What cookies are

Small files a site stores in your browser. Some remember your choices; the rest count visits and help us see what gets read. We also use browser local storage. Your banner choice stays in the browser; after consent, analytics services may store identifiers there and use them in requests.

Our rule

Until you have answered the question in the banner, we load no counters at all. Not "set them and honour your choice afterwards": with no consent stored, the Google and Yandex scripts are not on the page and not one request goes out to them.

Closing the banner is not consent. Consent means clicking accept, or setting the categories yourself.

Necessary — always on

They remember your cookie answer. Without it the banner would appear again. This is used for site preferences, not analytics.

• bridgeit-cookie-consent (local storage) — your answer in the banner, and its date. Kept until you clear your browser.

Analytics — only with your consent

How many people arrive, from where, which pages they read, how far they scroll, and which external links they open. The services use browser identifiers to count visitors; we view the results in aggregate reports.

Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC), running in Consent Mode v2 — every storage type denied by default until you say otherwise.

• _ga — device identifier. Kept 2 years.
• _ga_<property id> — session state. Kept 2 years.

Yandex Metrica (Yandex LLC). Session recording (Webvisor) is deliberately switched off.

• _ym_uid — visitor identifier. Kept 1 year.
• _ym_d — date of first visit. Kept 1 year.
• _ym_isad — whether an ad blocker is present. Kept 20 hours.

Metrica may also set other cookies and local storage entries, including _ym_metrika_enabled and _ym_<tag ID>_lastHit. See Yandex Metrica's current list for their purposes and retention periods.

Marketing — not in use

The category exists in the settings panel, but there are no advertising tags or pixels on this site today. If that changes, this document changes with it, the revision is raised, and the banner asks again.

Changing your answer

The "Cookie settings" link in the footer of any page opens the banner again. Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it: one click, the same panel. You can also turn cookies off in your browser, but the necessary ones go with them, and the site will ask on every visit.

Changes

If the list of counters or categories changes, the date at the top is updated and any previously stored answer is treated as void — consent is given to a specific list, not indefinitely to any list.

What we do with personal data more generally is described in the privacy notice.