Cookie policy

In short: the site sets three cookies of its own, all strictly necessary. Pages with forms add Google's anti-spam check, which sets one more. There are no advertising or analytics cookies — which is why we show no consent banner.

Effective 29 August 2026. Part of the privacy policy, published separately so that it is easy to check.

What a cookie is

A cookie is a small piece of text a site stores in your browser and reads when you open the next page. It is not a program and executes nothing: it is simply how a site remembers something between pages — that you are already signed in, for instance.

Cookies differ by purpose, and the law draws its line exactly there. Strictly necessary cookies are what makes a site work at all — no consent is required for them. Analytics and advertising cookies serve the site owner rather than you — consent for those must be asked in advance.

Which cookies elbuz.com sets

Cookie	Set by	Purpose	Lifetime
`JUMPERSESSID_…`	elbuz.com	keeps your session: without it you would retype the password on every page of your account	until the browser closes
`language`	elbuz.com	remembers the interface language you chose	30 days
`currency`	elbuz.com	remembers the currency you view prices in	30 days

These three are set by the site itself.

Protecting forms from spam

On pages that carry a form — contact us, feedback — Google reCAPTCHA is active. It tells a human from a robot and sets a cookie of its own (_GRECAPTCHA); Google receives your IP address and behavioural signals from the page.

This is the only third-party cookie on the site, and it is here to keep the service working rather than to serve us: without such protection a contact form drowns in spam within a week. Google states that reCAPTCHA data is not used for personalised advertising.

On pages without forms — articles, the user guide, pricing — reCAPTCHA is not loaded.

There are no advertising cookies, visitor counters or social buttons that recognise the visitor.

Why the site does not ask for consent

Consent is required for cookies a site could do without: visitor counters, advertising pixels, social buttons that recognise the visitor. It is not required for functional ones — otherwise a site would have to ask permission to remember the language you yourself selected.

What remains here are the strictly necessary cookies and the anti-spam check. The latter is necessary too: it protects the service itself rather than collecting information about you for someone's benefit. So there is no consent banner — there is nothing to consent to.

It was not always so. Until 29 August 2026 an advertising pixel ran on this site and set its own cookie before you did anything at all. We removed it, together with an analytics tag that had stopped working long before.

What happens if you block cookies

Your browser can block cookies entirely or for one site. In our case the consequences are:

site pages — articles, the user guide, pricing — will read normally;
signing in will stop working: without the session cookie the site cannot recognise you on the next page and will keep asking for the password;
the language and currency choice will have to be made again every time.

How to control cookies

This is done in the browser, not on the site — and rightly so: they are controlled by whoever's browser holds them.

Chrome — Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies
Firefox — Settings → Privacy & Security
Safari — Settings → Privacy
Edge — Settings → Cookies and site permissions

The same place lets you delete cookies already stored: ours will go with the rest, and the site will simply forget your language choice.

If anything changes

If we ever add analytics or advertising, we will do three things: ask your consent before such a cookie is set; make refusing exactly as easy as accepting; and update this page and the date at the top.