Effective: 24 October 2026 · Version: 2.2
This policy explains how Cont SIA uses cookies and similar technologies on conthubs.com. For how we handle personal data more broadly, see the Privacy Policy.
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Nothing optional runs before you say yes. Analytics cookies are not set, and the Google Analytics script is not even downloaded, unless you actively accept. If you decline, or simply ignore the banner, no analytics ever loads.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a site stores on your device. Similar technologies include local storage and session storage, which work the same way for our purposes. They let a site remember things between page loads, such as whether you are signed in or what you chose on a banner.
We group them into two categories, and only one of them is optional.
2. Essential cookies
These are required for the site to work and to stay secure. They do not track you across other websites and are not used for advertising. They are set on the basis of our legitimate interest in delivering a working, secure site, so they do not require consent, and the site cannot function properly without them.
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| cont:cookie-consent:v1 | cont. (local storage) | Remembers whether you accepted or declined analytics, so we do not ask again | Until you clear site data |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare | Distinguishes real visitors from bots, protecting the site from automated abuse | 30 minutes |
| cont_admin_session | cont. | Keeps an administrator signed in. Only ever set on /admin, never for visitors | Session |
3. Analytics cookies (optional)
If you accept, we load Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages are useful, which are not, and where people get stuck. This is aggregate reporting about the site, not profiling of you as an individual.
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Assigns a random identifier so repeat visits can be counted as one visitor | 2 years |
| _ga_<id> | Google Analytics | Keeps session state for the specific analytics property | 2 years |
We enable IP anonymisation, and we send Google Consent Mode v2 signals that keep every advertising category switched off permanently. Google processes this data as our service provider, described in Google's Privacy Policy. Declining analytics changes nothing about what you can read or do on the site.
4. Embedded media
Video is embedded through youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, which does not set tracking cookies merely for appearing on the page. If you press play, Google may then set cookies and collect watch data under its own policies. That is under your control: no playback, no Google cookies from the player.
Wikipedia articles shown in the knowledge reader load from Wikipedia, which may set its own cookies under the Wikimedia Foundation's privacy policy. Links to Grokipedia open that site directly, where their own terms and cookies apply.
5. What we do not use
- No advertising cookies, and no advertising network of any kind
- No cross-site tracking pixels, and no social media tracking pixels
- No data broker or audience segment sharing
- No fingerprinting to work around your cookie choice
We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. Our subscriptions are the business model, so there is nothing for us to gain from tracking you.
6. Managing cookies
The simplest way is the control at the top of this page. You can also manage cookies in your browser:
- Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Third-party cookies
- Safari: Settings > Privacy > Manage Website Data
- Firefox: Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and Site Data
- Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions
Blocking essential cookies may break sign-in and secure areas. Blocking analytics cookies has no effect on browsing. We also honour Global Privacy Control signals where your browser sends one.
7. The mobile apps
The cont. mobile apps do not use browser cookies. They rely on platform SDKs and local device storage instead, and those are described in the Privacy Policy and in the App Store and Google Play privacy disclosures. Web pages opened inside the app, such as a link to Grokipedia, follow that site's own cookie practices.
8. Your rights
You can withdraw consent at any time using the control above, with no effect on processing that already happened. You also have the rights set out in the Privacy Policy, including access, correction and erasure. Write to [email protected] and we respond within 30 days.
9. Changes
If we add or change a cookie, we update this page and the table above. If we ever add a new optional category, the stored consent version is invalidated and you will be asked again rather than opted in silently.
10. Contact
Cont SIA
Registration No. 40203709068
Gardenes iela 7 - 24, Riga, LV-1002, Latvia
Email: [email protected]