Cookie Policy
Our Simple Cookie Policy
We believe in transparency and respecting your privacy. This page explains exactly what cookies we use and why.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They help websites remember information about your visit to improve your experience.
The Cookies We Use
We use different types of cookies depending on your consent choice. You can control which cookies we use through our cookie banner.
1. Cookie Consent Choice (CookiesConsent.Given)
- Purpose: Remembers your cookie consent choice (Reject, Only Functional, or Accept All) so we don't show the banner on every visit.
- Expiration: 1 year
- What we store: Your consent choice ("rejected", "functional", or "accepted")
- Category: Always used (necessary)
2. Tutorial Status (Tour.Done)
- Purpose: Remembers whether you've completed the interactive tutorial, so we don't show it again on your next visit if you've already gone through it.
- Expiration: 1 year
- What we store: Just "true" or "false" (whether you completed the tutorial)
- Category: Functional (used with "Only Functional" or "Accept All" consent)
3. Feedback Modal Closed (Feedback.ModalClosed)
- Purpose: Remembers whether you've closed the feedback form, so we don't show it again automatically.
- Expiration: 1 year
- What we store: Just "true" (whether you've closed the feedback modal)
- Category: Functional (used with "Only Functional" or "Accept All" consent)
4. Analytics Cookies (Matomo)
- Purpose: Helps us understand how visitors use our website by collecting anonymous usage statistics.
- Expiration: Varies (typically 13 months to 2 years)
- What we store: Anonymous data about page views, time spent on pages, and general usage patterns
- Category: Analytics (only used with "Accept All" consent)
- Provider: Self-hosted Matomo analytics (no third-party data sharing)
Your Cookie Consent Options
When you visit our site, you'll see a cookie banner with three options:
- Reject: We only use the necessary consent cookie. No tutorial status, feedback modal, or analytics cookies are set.
- Only Functional: We use the consent cookie, the tutorial status cookie, and the feedback modal cookie. No analytics cookies are set.
- Accept All: We use all cookies including analytics to help improve our website.
What We Don't Do
We want to be crystal clear about what we don't do:
- • We do not use advertising cookies
- • We do not use tracking cookies for marketing purposes
- • We do not use third-party analytics services (we self-host Matomo)
- • We do not collect personal information through cookies
- • We do not share any data with third parties
Changing Your Consent
You can change your cookie consent at any time by clicking the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our website. This will show the cookie banner again, allowing you to update your choice.
When you change your consent from "Accept All" to "Reject" or "Only Functional", we will immediately delete all non-essential cookies from your browser.
Managing Your Cookies
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically:
- • View which cookies are stored
- • Delete individual cookies or all cookies
- • Block cookies from specific websites or all websites
Please note that blocking cookies through your browser will prevent our technical cookies from working, which means you'll see the cookie banner and tutorial on every visit.
Questions?
If you have any questions about our cookie policy, please don't hesitate to contact us at alphafind@ics.muni.cz.