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Cookies Policy
What this site stores on your device, which is very little, and how to control the rest yourself.
What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file a website stores on your device so it can recognise the same browser on a later request. Related technologies — local storage, session storage and tracking pixels — do much the same job, and this policy treats them the same way.
Some cookies are needed for a site to function. Most of the ones people object to are not: they exist to follow a visitor between sites and build a profile.
Our position in one paragraph
This website does not track you. It sets no analytics cookies, no advertising cookies and no profiling cookies, and it does not share your visit with an ad network. That is why you were not asked to dismiss a consent banner to read this page.
We would rather measure less and be able to say that plainly than collect everything and bury the fact in a preferences panel.
What this site actually sets
| Name | Category | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| atolys_session | Strictly necessary | Set only once you sign in to the Atolys platform. Keeps you logged in for the length of a session and protects forms against cross-site request forgery. | End of session |
That is the complete list. Browsing the public pages of atolys.com — this one included — sets nothing at all, and you can confirm it in your browser’s developer tools under Storage or Application.
Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent under the ePrivacy rules, because without them the service you asked for cannot be delivered. You can still block them in your browser; you will not be able to stay signed in.
The categories, and where we stand on each
- Strictly necessary — in use
- Keeping a signed-in session and protecting forms. The one cookie listed above.
- Preferences — not in use
- Remembering choices such as language. We currently handle this without storing anything on your device.
- Analytics — not in use
- Counting page views and link clicks. We do not run an analytics tag on this site. Where we need a sense of which pages are read, we use aggregated server logs, which are not cookies and do not follow you anywhere.
- Marketing — not in use
- Attributing an enquiry to a campaign, retargeting, ad-network pixels. None of it, on any page.
Content loaded from other domains
A few things on the site are fetched from other providers: the web fonts, and the video and imagery in the header. Those providers do not set cookies through this site, but a request to any external server necessarily reveals your IP address, your browser and the page you were on, and they may log it under their own terms.
We embed nothing else — no social widgets, no chat box, no third-party trackers, no embedded maps. Nothing you type into the interactive demonstrations on the home page leaves your browser.
If we ever add measurement
Should we introduce analytics or a campaign tag later, we will ask for your consent first, through a clear opt-in with a genuine refuse option, and nothing will load until you agree. This page will be updated with the cookie name, purpose and lifetime before anything is switched on, and the version date at the top will change.
Withdrawing consent would then be as easy as giving it. Until that happens, there is nothing here to opt out of.
Controlling cookies in your browser
Independently of any website, every major browser lets you block cookies, delete what is already stored, refuse third-party cookies, or clear everything when you close a window. Look under Settings for Privacy, Cookies, or Site data — the section is named slightly differently in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge, but does the same job.
Blocking cookies outright will break sign-in on most services, including our platform. Private or incognito windows discard cookies when the window closes, which is a lighter way to achieve much the same thing.
Do Not Track and similar signals
Browsers send Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals in different ways, and there is no settled standard for interpreting them. The question does not arise here: with no tracking to disable, respecting the signal and ignoring it produce exactly the same result.
Changes to this policy
If we add or remove a cookie, the table above and the version date at the top change with it. A change that widens what we collect is announced on the site before it takes effect, not afterwards.
How to contact us
Questions about cookies or this policy: privacy@atolys.com.
How we handle personal data more generally is set out in the Privacy Policy.