Cookies

1. What cookies are

A cookie is a small file a website stores in the browser of the person visiting it. It remembers information between pages or between visits: from keeping a session open to counting how many people have been on a page. Alongside cookies there are equivalent technologies —local storage, pixels, device fingerprinting— and this policy covers all of them.

Depending on who sets them, cookies are first-party (set by the site owner) or third-party. Depending on what they are for, they are usually classed as technical or necessary, preference, analytics or measurement, and advertising or behavioral.

2. Which cookies this site uses

This site only sets analytics cookies if you accept them in the notice shown on your first visit; until then no measurement tool loads. There is no advertising and there are no social buttons that follow the visitor, and fonts are served from this domain.

Technical cookies and local storage

Technical cookies are the ones the page needs in order to work and to stay secure. They are exempt from prior consent under article 22.2 of the LSSI-CE, though they still have to be disclosed. The only things this site keeps in your browser are these:

• nm-consent — First-party technical cookie. It keeps your answer to the cookie notice (whether or not you accept analytics) so you are not asked again. It lasts a year and holds nothing but that answer.
• nm-locale — First-party technical cookie. It remembers the language you chose, in the selector or in the notice that offers your browser’s language, so that notice does not show again. It is only set if you choose a language, lasts a year and holds nothing but the language code (“en-US”, “es-ES” or “ca-ES”).
• nm-theme — First-party, in the browser’s local storage. It remembers whether you chose the light theme, the dark one or your system’s, and it is only saved if you change the theme. It lasts until you clear it from your browser and is never sent to a server.

If the site ever needs a technical cookie, it will be added to this list before it is set.

Analytics cookies

They are only set if you accept them. They show how many people visit the site, where they come from (a search engine, a social network, a link), which pages they read and how they move through them, so the content can be improved. They are not used for advertising.

They belong to Google Analytics and load through Google Tag Manager, which is only downloaded after you accept:

• _ga and _ga_* — First-party. They tell visitors and visits apart to count sessions and page views. They last two years.

Personalization and advertising cookies

None. This site shows no ads and shares no information with advertising platforms. If a marketing tool is ever added, consent will be asked before it is installed and this policy will be updated.

3. Third-party cookies

This site links to external profiles and pages (for example LinkedIn or Instagram). Following those links leaves the site, and the cookie policies of each destination then apply, which the owner does not control. Outbound links do not set cookies by themselves until they are clicked.

4. Legal basis and consent

Technical cookies rely on article 22.2 of the LSSI-CE and on the controller’s legitimate interest in the site working and staying secure. Any other category requires the user’s prior, specific and informed consent, which can be withdrawn at any time as easily as it was given. Analytics cookies are only set with your consent, asked in the notice on your first visit: you can accept them, reject them or choose in Settings, just as easily. To change your mind, use the “Cookie settings” link in the footer; if you withdraw consent, the first-party analytics cookies are deleted. You are asked again after a year.

5. How to see, turn off or delete cookies

Every browser lets you inspect stored cookies, delete them and block those of one site or of all sites. The option is usually in settings, under privacy and security:

• Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data.
• Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and site data.
• Safari: Settings or Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data.
• Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions.

Most browsers also offer a private browsing mode, which clears cookies when the window closes. Menu names change with each version; the browser’s own help always has the current path.

6. What happens if you turn them off

Because this site is informational and does not require a sign-in, blocking cookies or rejecting analytics does not stop you reading it or sending the contact form. If you clear them, the cookie notice and the one offering your browser’s language show again; if you clear local storage, the site goes back to your system’s theme.

7. Changes to this policy

This policy will be reviewed whenever the cookies in use change and, at a minimum, when a new tool is added to the site. Questions about this document can be sent to mayda.morales@north-meridian.dev. How personal data is processed is explained in the privacy policy.