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Cookie Policy

Last updated: October 20, 2026

This policy explains which cookies the www.thebytesmiths.eu website uses, what each one does and how you can change your choice.

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. They let the site remember something from one page or visit to the next, such as your cookie choices or your language.

2. How we use cookies

We use cookies to make the site work, to remember your preferences and to understand how the site is used. They are of three kinds:

  • Necessary cookies are needed for the site to work, such as remembering your cookie choices. They do not require consent and are always on.
  • Preference cookies remember preferences such as your language.
  • Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the site, so we can improve it. We use Google Analytics.

Analytics cookies are set only after you allow them: until then, Google Analytics is not loaded at all. Without your consent to preference cookies, a language you pick in the language menu is remembered only until you close the browser.

3. The cookies we use

Necessary

NameProviderPurposeDuration
bytesmiths_consentthebytesmiths.euRemembers your cookie choices, so the site does not ask again on every page.6 months

Preferences

NameProviderPurposeDuration
NEXT_LOCALEthebytesmiths.euRemembers the language you picked in the language menu, so the site opens in it.1 year; without your consent to preference cookies, until you close the browser

Analytics

NameProviderPurposeDuration
_gaGoogleGoogle Analytics: tells visitors apart, so they can be counted.2 years
_ga_2JEXM3MZGWGoogleGoogle Analytics: keeps track of the current visit.2 years

4. Your choices

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time, with “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page or the button below. Withdrawing it deletes the Google Analytics cookies, and the language you picked is then remembered only until you close the browser.

We keep your choice for 6 months and then ask again. If you delete or block cookies in your browser, the site asks for your choice again.

5. Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a service of Google. It loads only after you allow analytics cookies, and we have turned off Google signals and ad personalization for it.

Google explains how it uses this data on its page for sites that use its services.

6. Changes to this policy

We update this policy when the cookies we use change, and ask for your consent again where needed.

7. Contact

Questions about cookies: info@thebytesmiths.eu. How we process personal data is described in our Privacy Policy.