Cookie Policy

This page explains how Soteryan BV (“Soteryan,” “we,” “us,” “our”) uses cookies and similar storage technologies on this website (soteryan.com), in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the e-Privacy Directive (Cookie Law). The short version: we do not use cookies, analytics trackers, or advertising profiles — we keep one technical setting on your device for theme preference, and that’s it.

1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store on your device so that the site can remember things between visits — for example, that you are logged in, or that you prefer a certain language. The term “cookie” in EU law also covers similar technologies like localStorage, sessionStorage, and IndexedDB; all of them fall under the same rules.

2. Cookies on this website

This website does not set any HTTP cookies. We do not use cookies for analytics, advertising, social-media plug-ins, A/B testing, behavioural profiling, or any other purpose.

Specifically, we do not use:

• Analytics — no Google Analytics, Plausible, Matomo, Cloudflare Analytics, or similar.
• Advertising / re-targeting — no Meta Pixel, Google Ads, LinkedIn Insight Tag, or similar.
• Social-media plug-ins — no Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn share-buttons that fingerprint visitors.
• A/B-testing or session-replay — no Optimizely, Hotjar, FullStory, or similar.
• Behavioural profiling — no first-party or third-party trackers of any kind.

3. What we DO store on your device

For full transparency, the website uses your browser’s localStorage (a small key/value store on your device) for one technical preference:

This entry is strictly functional — it does not identify you, is not transmitted to Soteryan or any third party, and is set only in response to your direct action (clicking the theme toggle). Under GDPR and the e-Privacy Directive, functional preferences of this kind do not require prior consent (Recital 25 of the e-Privacy Directive; Art. 5(3) exemption for “strictly necessary” storage).

4. How to inspect or remove it

You can view, change, or remove the soteryan-theme entry at any time from your browser’s developer tools or settings:

• Chrome / Edge — F12 → Application → Storage → Local Storage → soteryan-site.vercel.app → right-click the row to delete.
• Safari — Settings → Privacy → Manage Website Data → search “soteryan” → Remove.
• Firefox — F12 → Storage → Local Storage → right-click the row to delete.

Removing it has no effect other than the site reverting to the default theme on your next visit.

5. Third-party content

All page assets — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, brand fonts (Space Grotesk, Open Sans, both self-hosted) and SVG logos — are served from our own deployment on Vercel (see Privacy Policy §5 for hosting details). We do not load fonts from Google Fonts, embedded YouTube/Vimeo players, social-media share widgets (Facebook, X/Twitter, LinkedIn), live-chat widgets, marketing-automation pixels, advertising trackers, or any other external resource that would directly expose your IP address or browser fingerprint to an additional third party.

If we ever introduce a third-party resource that could affect visitor privacy — analytics, embeds, social plug-ins — we will update this Cookie Policy before the change goes live and disclose it explicitly in this section.

6. If this changes in the future

If we ever introduce analytics, advertising, or any technology that requires your consent under the e-Privacy Directive, we will not enable it silently. We will:

• Update this page before the change goes live
• Show a clear, opt-in cookie banner with granular categories (functional / analytics / marketing)
• Not load any non-essential script or set any consent-requiring cookie until you affirmatively accept it
• Provide an always-accessible “Cookie preferences” link to change your choice at any time

7. Contact

For any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we handle data on this website:

For broader data-handling questions, see our Privacy Policy.