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1. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites function correctly, to store your preferences, and to provide information to the website owner about how their site is being used.

Cookies may be "session" cookies — which expire when you close your browser — or "persistent" cookies, which remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them. They may be set directly by the website you are visiting ("first-party cookies") or by third-party services embedded on the page.

2. How We Use Cookies

Obrent Review uses cookies for the following purposes:

— To ensure the website functions correctly, including storing your cookie consent preference so you are not asked again on each visit.
— To understand how readers navigate the publication, so that editorial and structural decisions can be informed by aggregate readership behaviour.
— To serve third-party resources such as embedded maps and typeface files, which may set their own cookies in accordance with the policies of those third parties.

We do not use cookies for targeted advertising or to build profiles of individual visitors for commercial purposes.

3. Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are strictly necessary for the correct functioning of the website. They do not require consent under UK GDPR. Blocking them may result in parts of the site not working as expected.

Cookie Name	Purpose	Duration	Provider
obrent_consent	Stores your cookie consent preference to prevent the banner from reappearing on subsequent visits.	12 months	obrent.info
PHPSESSID	Session identifier required for standard web server functioning. Expires when the browser session ends.	Session	obrent.info

4. Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how readers use the publication. The data is collected in aggregate and does not identify individual visitors. These cookies are set only where you have given consent.

Cookie Name	Purpose	Duration	Provider
_ga	Used to distinguish individual visitors. Collects data on page visits and session duration in anonymised form.	2 years	Google Analytics
_ga_*	Used to maintain session state for Google Analytics 4.	2 years	Google Analytics

Analytics data is processed under a data processing agreement with Google. Data is not used to identify individuals and is not shared with other parties.

5. Third-Party Cookies

Certain third-party services embedded on this website may set their own cookies. These are not under our direct control. The relevant third-party privacy policies govern how these cookies are used.

Google Maps

An embedded map on our contact page is served by Google Maps. If you interact with the map, Google may set cookies as described in the Google Privacy Policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

Google Fonts

Typography files are loaded from Google's font servers. Google may record a request log. No persistent cookie is set by Google Fonts on this website in normal usage.

CDN Providers

Script resources are served from cdn.jsdelivr.net, unpkg.com, cdnjs.cloudflare.com, and code.jquery.com. These providers may record access logs. They do not typically set persistent cookies in the browser through standard script delivery.

6. Your Choices

When you first visit obrent.info, a cookie consent banner is presented. You may choose to:

— Accept All — essential, analytics, and any third-party cookies are permitted.
— Accept Selected — you consent to the categories you have selected.
— Essential Only — only cookies strictly necessary for the website to function are set.

You may change your preference at any time by clicking the Cookie Settings link in the footer of any page on this website.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing that took place before you withdrew it.

7. Browser Controls

In addition to using the cookie banner, you can control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:

— View the cookies currently stored on your device and delete them individually or in bulk.
— Block cookies from specific websites or all websites.
— Set the browser to notify you when a website attempts to set a cookie.

Note that blocking all cookies may affect the functioning of some website features, including the retention of your consent preference. Browser-specific instructions for managing cookies can be found in your browser's help documentation.

8. Policy Updates

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. The revision date at the top of this page will be updated accordingly.

For questions about this Cookie Policy, write to us at [email protected] or to Obrent Review, 44 Coldbath Square, London EC1R 5HL, United Kingdommdom.