Cookie Policy for SebWalak.com

calendar May 18, 2018

Last updated: Aug 19, 2026

This is the Cookie Policy for SebWalak.com and subdomains, accessible from https://blog.sebwalak.com.

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and how you can control them.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

On your first visit you are shown a consent banner (provided by CookieScript). No optional cookies are set until you agree to them.

The banner groups cookies into categories:

  • Strictly necessary — always on; needed for the consent mechanism itself to remember your choices.
  • Performance — analytics cookies that help us understand how the site is used.
  • Targeting / Functionality — categories reserved for advertising and preference cookies. We do not currently set any cookies in these categories.

You can accept all, decline all, or pick categories individually. Your choice is remembered for one month, after which the banner will ask again.

We have also enabled Google Consent Mode v2: your choices are signalled to Google's tags, which adjust their behaviour accordingly. If you decline analytics, Google Analytics receives only anonymous, cookieless pings that carry no identifier and set nothing on your device.

The Cookies We Set

  • Strictly necessary
    A single first-party cookie (CookieScriptConsent) that records your consent choices.

  • Google Analytics (only with your consent)
    This site uses Google Analytics 4 to understand how the site is used — for example how long visitors spend on the site and which pages they visit — so we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies are set only after you consent to the Performance category. More information: Google Analytics cookie usage.

What We No Longer Use

Earlier versions of this site embedded services that could set additional cookies. For transparency:

  • Advertising (Google AdSense) — currently disabled; no advertising cookies are set. If advertising returns, it will be gated behind the Targeting consent category and this policy will be updated.
  • Google Custom Search — replaced by Pagefind, a search engine that runs entirely in your browser. It makes no external requests and sets no cookies.
  • Social media plugins — we link to other sites but embed no social media SDKs, so no social network cookies are set by visiting this site.

A live inventory of the cookies in use is on the cookies page.

  • Consent panel
    You can review or change your choices at any time by reopening the cookie consent panel.

  • Google's Privacy Check-up
    For Google services you can additionally visit Google's Privacy Check-up.

  • Browser settings
    Finally, you can block or delete cookies via your browser's settings (see your browser's Help for how to do this). Be aware that blocking all cookies will also prevent the site from remembering that you declined them, so the banner will reappear.

More Information

Please have a look at the cookies set while using SebWalak.com.

If you are still looking for more information then you can contact us by email.