Cookies
What this site stores in your browser
This page currently says we set no analytics or advertising cookies, which is true right now. The moment analytics are added, this page has to change in the same commit. A cookie notice that has quietly fallen out of date is worse than none.
The short version
We set no advertising cookies, no analytics cookies, and no third-party trackers. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to. If that changes, this page changes first and we will ask you properly.
What we do use
| Purpose | Detail |
|---|---|
| Keeping you signed in to your order | A strictly necessary session cookie so the site knows which order you are looking at while you move between pages. Deleted when you close the browser. Without it the site cannot work. |
| Payment | None. Payment is by bank transfer, made in your own bank's app or at your own bank. There is no checkout page here and no payment company between us, so nothing sets a cookie for it. |
| Fonts | The typefaces on this site are loaded from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com), which is a Google service. Loading them tells Google your IP address, your browser and which page requested the font. Google states that it does not set cookies on those two hosts and does not use the requests to build an advertising profile. We receive nothing from it. If you would rather not load them, your browser's font settings or a content blocker will stop it, and the site remains fully readable. |
What we do not use
- No Google Analytics or equivalent.
- No advertising or retargeting pixels. We do not run ads, and we will not let anyone follow you around the internet because you looked at a translation service.
- No social media embeds that phone home.
- No session recording or heatmap tools. Given that people arrive here to upload family registers, watching their screens would be indefensible.
Why we are being strict about this
People come to this site while dealing with visas, marriages, school admissions and job paperwork. The pages you visit here reveal something about your circumstances. That is not information we want to hand to an advertising network, and it is not information you should have to trade for a translation.
The practical cost is that we know less about how the site is used. We would rather ask you directly.
Server logs
Our server keeps ordinary access logs — the page requested, the time, and the IP address — which are needed to keep the service running and to investigate abuse. These are not cookies and are not used to profile you. Retention: 180 days.
Controlling cookies
Every browser lets you block or delete cookies in its settings. Blocking the session cookie will stop the order flow from working, because the site will no longer be able to tell which order is yours. Nothing else here will break.