1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device when you visit. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the website owner.
In addition to traditional HTTP cookies, we also use localStorage — a form of browser storage that functions similarly and allows us to remember your preferences across visits without setting a traditional cookie.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies and similar browser storage technologies for the following purposes: to remember your cookie consent preference, and to collect anonymized analytics data about how visitors use our website (only with your explicit consent).
We do not use cookies for advertising, user profiling, or to track you across other websites.
3. Cookies and Storage We Use
cookie-consent (localStorage) — Purpose: remembers your cookie consent choice (accepted or refused). Duration: persistent until you clear your browser data or reset your choice via our preferences button. Third-party: no.
_vercel_analytics (HTTP cookie / tracking pixel) — Purpose: anonymized analytics including pages visited, navigation patterns, and approximate location at country level. Duration: session or short-term. Third-party: yes (Vercel). Only active if you have accepted analytics cookies.
4. Vercel Analytics
With your consent, we use Vercel Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. Vercel Analytics is designed with privacy in mind: it does not use fingerprinting or cross-site tracking, it collects only anonymized and aggregated data, and it does not identify individual users.
Data collected by Vercel Analytics is processed in accordance with Vercel's privacy policy, available at https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy.
5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can manage your cookie preferences at any time in the following ways:
Via our website: click "Manage cookie preferences" in the footer of any page to reopen the consent banner and update your choice. Via your browser: most browsers allow you to view, block, or delete cookies through their settings. Note that blocking all cookies may affect the functionality of this and other websites.
Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before withdrawal.
6. Changes to This Policy
We may update this cookie policy periodically to reflect changes in the technologies we use or in applicable law. The most recent version will always be available at https://thejewelinsideus.org/cookie-policy.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this policy, please contact us at: contact@thejewelinsideus.org