Cookie Policy

1. What are cookies

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on the visitor’s device (computer, tablet, mobile phone). They are used to remember information about the visit (preferences, sign-in state, statistics) and to make the website work or perform better. Equivalent technologies (local storage, web beacons, pixels) are treated as cookies for the purposes of this Policy.

2. Types of cookies

Cookies can be classified by:

• Ownership:first-party (set by aurisreader.com) and third-party (set by external providers when their resources are loaded).
• Duration:session (deleted when the browser is closed) and persistent (kept until they expire or are deleted manually).
• Purpose:
  • Strictly necessary: required for the website to function. Cannot be disabled without breaking the site.
  • Preferences: remember user choices (language, theme, etc.).
  • Analytics / statistics: measure how the site is used in order to improve it.
  • Marketing / advertising: build user profiles for advertising or remarketing on third-party platforms.

3. Cookies used on aurisreader.com

3.1. Strictly necessary (no consent required)

• wordpress_logged_in_* — first-party, session. Set only after a successful sign-in to the WordPress administration area. Identifies the authenticated user during that session. Does not affect anonymous visitors.
• wordpress_sec_* — first-party, session. Companion of the previous cookie, used to secure authenticated sessions. Does not affect anonymous visitors.
• wp-settings-{user-id} — first-party, persistent (1 year). Stores layout preferences within the WordPress administration area. Does not affect anonymous visitors.
• wp-settings-time-{user-id} — first-party, persistent (1 year). Records when the previous cookie was set. Does not affect anonymous visitors.
• ar_consent — first-party, persistent (180 days). Stores your choice from the cookie banner (granted or denied) so we do not show it on every page load. Strictly necessary to respect your decision (Art. 22.2 LSSI-CE).

3.2. Security / anti-abuse (legitimate interest)

• Google reCAPTCHA v3 (Google LLC, USA) — loaded conditionally only on the sign-up, sign-in and contact forms. reCAPTCHA may set cookies and identifiers on Google domains (google.com, recaptcha.net) to differentiate humans from bots. Legal basis: legitimate interest in protecting the service against automated abuse (Art. 6.1.f GDPR), as endorsed by the AEPD and the EDPB. The script is not loaded on pages without protected forms (home, pricing, legal pages, etc.) to minimise its scope.

3.3. Analytics — only with your express consent

We use Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited, with technical sub-processing in Google LLC, USA) to understand how the Website is used in aggregated, pseudonymised form. We have configured GA4 with Consent Mode v2: by default, before you interact with the cookie banner, GA4 sends only aggregated pings without writing cookies; cookies are only set if you accept analytics through the banner.

We do not use any advertising, remarketing, or ad-personalisation feature of GA4 — those signals are permanently set to denied regardless of your banner choice.

• _ga — third-party (Google), persistent (2 years). Generates a pseudonymous client identifier for statistics.
• _ga_<CONTAINER-ID> — third-party (Google), persistent (2 years). Stores the session state for the specific GA4 property.
• _gid — third-party (Google), persistent (24 hours). Used in some configurations to distinguish users.

Legal basis: express consent (Art. 6.1.a GDPR, Art. 22.2 LSSI-CE). You can withdraw consent at any time by clicking the cookie-management link in the footer; cookies already stored will be deleted by your browser when they expire, or you can delete them manually following section 5 below.

3.4. Advertising and remarketing

We do not install advertising or remarketing cookies of any kind, neither first-party nor third-party. The ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization Consent Mode signals are permanently set to denied.

4. Consent and configuration

Strictly necessary cookies do not require user consent (Art. 22.2 LSSI-CE). If, in the future, additional cookie categories are activated (preferences, analytics, marketing), the user will be asked for prior, specific and informed consent through a cookie banner that allows acceptance, rejection or configuration of each category independently. Acceptance and rejection will be offered with equal prominence, in accordance with AEPD guidance. The user will also be able to modify or revoke their choice at any time through the cookie-management link in the footer.

5. How to manage cookies in your browser

Regardless of the banner, the user can configure their browser to accept, reject or delete cookies, and to be notified when a cookie is installed. The following are reference links to the cookie management documentation of the most common browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari
• Microsoft Edge
• Opera

Blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect the operation of certain parts of the Website, in particular the WordPress administration area.

6. Updates to this Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated to reflect changes in the cookies used on the Website or in the applicable regulation. The current version will always be published on this page with its last-update date.

7. Contact

For any question regarding this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies on aurisreader.com, you can write to info@aurisreader.com. For broader information about how we process your personal data, see the Privacy Policy.