1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet or mobile) when you visit a website. They help the website remember your actions and preferences over time. Local storage works the same way but is only readable by the page that wrote it and is never sent to a server. We use the word "cookies" for both.
2. Types of cookies we use
Cookies fall into four types. Here is which of them this site uses today:
2. Types of cookies we use| Type | Purpose | On this site |
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| Necessary | Essential for the website to function. They cannot be switched off. | None. The site is static and sets no cookie to render a page. |
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| Functional | Remember your preferences and settings. | One local storage entry, heliconia-consent, that records your cookie choice so the notice is not shown again. |
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| Performance | Help us understand how visitors interact with the site by collecting information anonymously. | Not used today. If we add analytics it will load only after you accept it in the cookie notice. |
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| Targeting / advertising | Track browsing habits to show relevant ads and marketing content. | Not used. We run no advertising, remarketing or social-media pixels. |
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3. Why we use cookies
- To make the website work efficiently.
- To remember the choice you made in the cookie notice.
- If we add analytics in future, to understand how the site is used and improve it, and only with your consent.
4. Legal basis for using cookies
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other privacy laws we set cookies:
- With your consent, for anything that is not strictly necessary. You will be asked before any such cookie is set.
- On the basis of legitimate interest, for cookies that are strictly necessary to run the site and to honour your consent choice.
5. How you can manage cookies
- Cookie consent banner: when you first visit the site you see a notice with two equal choices, accept or decline. Declining changes nothing today, because nothing optional is loaded.
- Change your consent: the "Cookie settings" link in the footer of every page clears your stored choice and shows the notice again.
- Browser settings: you can set your browser to block or delete cookies and site data. Clearing site data for heliconia.io removes the stored preference, so the notice appears again on your next visit.
6. Third-party cookies
No third party sets cookies on this site today. There are no embedded videos, maps, chat widgets or social buttons. If we later allow a trusted third party such as Google Analytics to set cookies, it will happen only after you consent in the cookie notice, this policy will name the provider first, and its cookies will be governed by that provider’s own privacy policy. Links to other sites (LinkedIn, GitHub, WhatsApp and the like) open those sites, which have their own policies.
7. Your rights
Under the GDPR and other applicable laws you have the right to:
- Access the data we hold about you.
- Request correction or deletion.
- Withdraw your consent at any time.
- Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.