Cookie Policy (EU)
1. Introduction
This cookie policy was last updated on July 17, 2025 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
Our website uses cookies and related technologies (for convenience, all referred to as "cookies"). Some cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged.
2. What are cookies, scripts and web beacons?
A cookie is a small file sent along with the pages of this website and stored by your browser on your device; the stored information may be sent back to our servers, or to those of relevant third parties, on a subsequent visit.
A script is a piece of code used to make our website function correctly and interactively.
A web beacon (or pixel tag) is a small, often invisible, piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic.
3. Types of cookies
- Technical or functional: ensure certain parts of the site work correctly and that your preferences are remembered; these may be placed without your consent.
- Statistics: allow us to optimize the website experience by gathering information about its use; these require your consent.
- Marketing/tracking: build user profiles to display advertising or track users across websites for marketing purposes; these require your consent.
4. Services used
- Ciphraverse website (functional): a technical cookie is set only during the checkout process, to keep the order session and the email verification step linked to your browser. It expires at the end of the process and is placed without your consent because the service cannot be provided without it.
- Stripe (functional): payment processing and fraud prevention. Cookies are set by Stripe when you are redirected to its secure payment page in order to complete the transaction.
- Google Fonts (functional): web fonts served by Google to render the site's typography. No cookies are set, although your IP address is processed by Google to deliver the font files.
- Matomo (statistics): audience measurement, to be activated on this site. It is used in privacy-friendly mode with anonymized IP addresses and no data sharing with third parties; where consent is required by law, it is requested before any cookie is set.