Cookie Policy

What the banner is actually asking

On your first visit a box appears with two buttons: Accept all and Necessary only. Either one is a complete answer — neither sends you to a second screen, and there is no “✕” that decides on your behalf.

What it is not asking about: strictly necessary cookies. The law requires consent for tracking, advertising and analytics, but exempts what the service you asked for cannot work without. The cookie that keeps you signed in is one of those — without it you cannot sign in at all, so it would be dishonest to offer it as a choice.

What it is asking about: everything optional. That category is, right now, empty. We run no analytics, no advertising, no social media widgets that follow you, and we sell data to nobody. “Accept all” switches nothing extra on today.

So why ask? So that the answer exists before the question does. If we ever add analytics, it has to pass through this answer to run at all. And because consent given today cannot cover something that did not exist today, any new category brings the banner back to ask again. Your answer is remembered for six months.

What we actually use

Authentication cookies (`sb-...-auth-token`)

Set by Supabase, our authentication provider, when you sign in. Without them you would be signed out on every page load. They are cleared when you sign out and expire on their own after a period of inactivity.

Language cookie (`NEXT_LOCALE`)

Remembers whether you prefer Romanian or English, so you need not choose each time. It contains only `ro` or `en` — nothing about you.

Your answer to the banner (`cookie-consent`)

The occupational irony: to avoid asking on every page, we have to remember what you answered — in a cookie. It holds exactly that much: the version of the question, your answer and the date, such as `1:all:2026-08-07`. Open it in your browser and see. It lasts six months and goes nowhere off your device.

Theme preference (`theme`)

Not strictly a cookie: it is saved in your browser's own storage (localStorage) and never reaches our servers. It remembers whether you want the light or dark interface, and stays on your device.

Changing your answer

Cookie settings, in the footer of every page. It opens the same box, shows you what you chose, and lets you choose otherwise. One click, exactly as it was the first time — withdrawing consent is not allowed to be harder than giving it.

You need no account and you need not be signed in. The answer lives on your device, not in your profile.

How to control them

Every browser lets you view, delete or block cookies from its settings.

Bear in mind: if you block the authentication cookies, you will not be able to sign in. That is not a penalty — there is simply no other way for the server to know it is you.

Clearing cookies will sign you out, reset your language preference and erase your answer to the banner — so the box will appear again. Your account and your data are untouched.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, write to us at contact@webicdp.com.

Details about the rest of your data are in the Privacy Policy.