Cookie Policy

1. What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files stored in your browser.

2. Cookies we use

• Session cookies (strictly necessary): used to recognize you when you sign in and to protect your account.
• Language preference cookie (strictly necessary): remembers the interface language you chose.
• Security and usage-limit cookies (strictly necessary): used to prevent abuse of free usage rights and to protect the service.
• Analysis-without-account cookie (strictly necessary, et_guest): holds a random ID; links your first free analysis and its report to this browser and prevents repeated use. Kept for 1 year.
• Password reset cookie (strictly necessary, et_pw_recovery): recognizes only a session opened with a password reset link; removed within 24 hours.
• Time zone cookie (functional, et_tz): holds your browser's time zone (e.g. Europe/London) so dates in reports and lists match your local day. It contains no personal data and is kept for 1 year.
• Cookie consent cookie (strictly necessary, et_cookie_consent): remembers whether you accepted or declined analytics cookies and when; it contains no personal data and is kept for 6 months, after which you are asked again.
• Consent deferral cookie (strictly necessary, et_consent_defer): if updated consent texts cannot be saved because of a database delay, it postpones asking for consent again for 1 day; it is secure, signed and tied to your account, and is kept for at most 1 day.

3. Analytics cookies (optional, only with your consent)

We use Google Analytics 4 through Google Tag Manager to measure and improve how the site is used. These tools are loaded ONLY if you choose “Accept” in the cookie banner at the bottom of the site. If you make no choice or choose “Decline”, no analytics cookie is set and no data is sent to Google; you can still use every feature of the site.

• _ga (Google Analytics): holds a random ID to distinguish your browser; kept for 2 years.
• _ga_<id> (Google Analytics): keeps the state of the visit session; kept for 2 years.

Information collected: pages visited, visit duration, clicks and navigation within the site, device and browser type, screen size, language and approximate location (country/city; your IP address is used by Google only to estimate location and is not stored in Google Analytics). We do not use this information to identify you personally or to show you ads. Google Tag Manager itself sets no cookies; it only loads the analytics tag you consented to.

Provider: Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) and its affiliate Google LLC (USA). Data may be processed in the USA; this transfer relies on the safeguards provided in Article 9 of the KVKK and Chapter V of the GDPR (standard contractual clauses). Legal basis: your explicit consent (KVKK Art. 5(1); GDPR Article 6(1)(a)).

You can withdraw your consent at any time via the “Cookie settings” link in the site footer; when you do, analytics cookies are deleted from your browser and are not loaded again. We do not use advertising or remarketing cookies; if we do, we will ask for your separate consent in advance and update this policy.

4. Managing cookies

You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings; however, if strictly necessary cookies are blocked you may not be able to sign in. For questions, write to woksyy@eticexi.com.