Necessary functionality
Storage that is necessary to operate a requested website function, maintain security or remember important privacy choices.
Cookies & Similar Technologies
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how denisedegaetano.com uses cookies, browser storage and similar technologies, why they may be used and the choices available to you.
It should be read together with the Privacy Notice.
Cookie Information
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What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information that websites or online services can ask a browser to store on a computer, mobile device or other terminal equipment.
Cookies may be used for purposes such as maintaining sessions, remembering preferences, providing requested functionality, measuring website use or recognising a returning browser.
Websites can also use technologies that perform similar functions without technically being cookies, including:
- local storage;
- session storage;
- browser identifiers;
- pixels or tags; and
- other device-storage technologies.
References to cookies in this policy therefore include similar storage technologies where relevant.
What categories may be used?
Optional measurement
Analytics technology used to understand general website use and performance. This category is intended to remain disabled until analytics consent is provided.
Optional communication
Storage connected with the website's interactive chat service when you choose to open and use Chat.
Strictly necessary or functional storage
Certain storage may be necessary for a website feature that you have explicitly requested or to maintain essential website functionality.
For example, the redesigned website stores a record of your website cookie preference so that the website can remember whether you have already made a choice.
Technical or security infrastructure may also use limited storage where necessary to provide or protect the website.
Necessary storage is not used simply to treat optional analytics or advertising as essential.
Optional website analytics
The website may use Google Analytics 4 to understand general website usage and performance.
Under the intended website configuration, optional analytics is not loaded until the visitor has provided analytics consent.
If analytics consent is refused, the website's basic consent approach is intended to keep the optional Google Analytics tag blocked.
Common Google Analytics cookies
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Default Duration | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Used by GA4 to distinguish users. | Up to 2 years by default, subject to configuration and browser limitations. | Analytics |
| _ga_<container-id> | Google Analytics | Used by GA4 to persist session state. | Up to 2 years by default, subject to configuration and browser limitations. | Analytics |
Google may change its technologies, cookie names, defaults or technical implementation over time.
More information can be found in Google's own documentation and privacy information.
Cookies used when you choose Chat
The website contains an optional interactive chat service.
The redesigned website is configured so that the external chat widget does not load merely because you visit a page. It is loaded when you choose the Chat function.
Once the external chat service is loaded, its provider may use cookies, local storage and session storage to provide the chat service, maintain a connection and support its functionality.
Technologies documented by the chat provider
| Name / Technology | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| tawk_uuid_* | Cookie associated with the chat service. | Provider-controlled. |
| twk_idm_key | Helps manage visitor connections. | Session. |
| twk_token_* | Local-storage technology used by the chat service. | Provider-controlled. |
| tawk_uuid_propertyId | Used by the provider to recognise returning visitors. | Approximately 6 months according to the provider's documentation. |
| TawkConnectionTime | Helps manage chat connection behaviour. | Session. |
| PreviousNav | Session storage used to remember previous navigation information. | Browser-tab session. |
The provider may change its storage technologies and technical implementation over time.
Chat consent
The chat provider also offers a consent form for European visitors.
According to the provider, when its consent form is enabled, chat-widget cookies and local storage are not set until the visitor accepts that consent form.
The chat provider's consent functionality is a technical consent tool and is not, by itself, a guarantee of legal compliance.
How cookie consent works
Optional non-essential technologies should not be treated as accepted merely because you continue browsing the website.
The website's consent controls are intended to provide a genuine choice before optional analytics is activated.
Depending on the available choices, you may be able to:
- accept optional analytics;
- reject optional analytics;
- continue using essential website functions; and
- revisit your previous choice later.
Refusing optional analytics should not prevent you from accessing the ordinary content of this website.
How can you change your cookie preference?
You can review the website's stored consent choice by using the button below.
Review website cookie choices
This will clear the website's stored consent-choice record and return you to the test homepage so the website can ask you for your preference again.
Browser controls
Your browser may also allow you to view, block or delete cookies and other stored website data.
Deleting the website's own consent record does not necessarily delete cookies previously created by third-party services.
If you previously accepted a third-party technology and want to remove cookies that already exist, you can also use your browser's cookie and site-data controls.
Third-party technologies
Some website functionality is provided using external service providers.
Those providers may update their technologies, storage names, expiration periods and technical processing independently of this website.
The principal optional third-party technologies currently contemplated by this website are:
- Google Analytics for optional website measurement; and
- the external communication provider used when you choose the website Chat function.
Their own privacy and cookie documentation should also be consulted where you require detailed information about their processing.
Advertising and remarketing cookies
The redesigned website is not intended to rely on advertising or remarketing cookies as part of its standard configuration.
If advertising, remarketing or additional tracking technologies are introduced in the future, this policy and the website's consent controls should be updated before or when those technologies are activated, as appropriate.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated when the website, analytics configuration, chat service or other technologies change.
The date shown at the top of this page identifies the current version.
Where a material change affects consent choices, visitors may be asked to make a new choice.
Questions about cookies?
Contact Denise if you have a question about the website's use of cookies or similar technologies.
Questions concerning personal-data processing more generally should also be read together with the Privacy Notice.
Social media and WhatsApp links
The website contains links to external services, including:
These are ordinary external links rather than embedded social-media feeds on the redesigned pages.
The external service is contacted when you choose to follow the relevant link.
Once you leave this website, the external provider may use cookies or other technologies according to its own privacy and cookie practices.