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Cookie Policy
Last updated: July 22, 2026
This policy explains how CSStatLab uses cookies, local storage and similar technologies. Optional analytics is disabled until you make an active choice in the consent banner. Advertising consent is handled separately by Google’s own certified consent prompt.
1. Your choices
You can accept or reject optional analytics in our consent banner; this choice is off by default and stored for 180 days, then requested again. Advertising consent is collected by Google’s consent prompt, which you can revisit at any time through that prompt.
2. Storage and service categories
| Category | Technology or provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary | csstatlab:privacy-consent in local storage | Records your category choices, consent version and timestamp. | 180 days |
| Necessary | article-feedback:<article> in local storage | Remembers feedback you explicitly submit and helps prevent a duplicate vote. | Until browser storage is cleared |
| Necessary | Vercel Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights | Measures aggregate site usage, reliability and performance. Cookieless: sets no cookies and stores no persistent identifiers or personal data. | Runs on every visit; no storage retained |
| Analytics / advertising | Google Tag Manager and configured Google tags | Loads configured measurement or advertising tags according to the relevant consent signal. | Depends on each configured tag |
| Advertising | Google AdSense | Ad delivery, fraud prevention and measurement. Personalization only where you consent through Google’s prompt; otherwise non-personalized ads are served. | Set by Google according to its policies and your consent |
3. Google Consent Mode
CSStatLab sends Google Consent Mode v2 signals with analytics and advertising storage denied by default. Google Tag Manager is not loaded until analytics is accepted. AdSense loads for all visitors so that Google’s certified consent management platform can present its advertising consent prompt and, based on your response, serve personalized or non-personalized ads.
For visitors in the EEA, United Kingdom or Switzerland, that Google-certified platform presents the disclosures and vendor choices required for Google advertising under the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. Until you respond, advertising storage stays denied and only non-personalized ads are served.
4. Affiliate links
Amazon affiliate links do not place an Amazon cookie on CSStatLab. When you actively follow a link, you leave CSStatLab and the destination site may use cookies under its own policy. CSStatLab may use an approximate country header supplied by the hosting platform to choose a relevant Amazon storefront; that country is not stored in a CSStatLab cookie.
See our Affiliate Disclosure for more information.
5. Withdrawing consent
Use “Cookie settings” in the footer or the button above to change or withdraw consent at any time. Disabling a previously enabled category updates Google's consent signals and reloads the page so optional scripts are no longer mounted. You can also clear site data in your browser.
6. More information
For information about personal data, recipients and your rights, read the Privacy Policy. Questions can be sent to daneke75160@gmail.com.