1. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. They can help a site remember settings, maintain security features, understand visits, or, with the required authorization, support advertising and measurement.
2. Cookie Categories
Necessary cookies
Used for page security, form submissions, sessions, and abuse prevention. Disabling them may affect essential site functions.
Preference cookies
Used to remember language, interface, or other reading preferences. They are used only when the relevant feature is enabled.
Analytics cookies
Used to understand visits, sources, devices, and reading behavior so we can improve the content. Analytics services should load according to your region and consent choice.
Advertising cookies
When Google AdSense or another authorized advertising service is enabled, advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve, limit, measure, or personalize ads.
3. Google AdSense and Personalized Advertising
Google and its partners may serve relevant ads based on visits to this site or other sites. Whether advertising is personalized depends on your region, consent status, browser settings, and Google ad settings.
You can manage personalized advertising through Google Ads Settingsor use your browser's cookie controls. Turning off personalized advertising may not remove all ads; it changes their relevance and the data used.
We will not ask you to click an ad or block normal reading because you decline personalized advertising. Ads must remain clearly distinguishable from site content.
4. Consent Management
In regions where consent is required, the site will show information through a consent-management tool before advertising or analytics services are enabled, with options to consent, refuse, or manage choices. You can later withdraw or adjust choices through the privacy settings entry provided by the site.
For users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, advertising consent flows will be configured in line with Google's EU User Consent Policy and applicable requirements of the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. The consent interface will identify the relevant vendors and purposes.
5. Managing Cookies
- Use browser settings to block, delete, or limit cookies.
- When the site provides a cookie-preference entry, use it to change your choices.
- Use Google Ads Settings to manage Google's personalized advertising.
- For a data deletion or privacy request, email hello@bellefar.com.
6. Contact
If you believe cookie or advertising settings do not match this notice, contact hello@bellefar.com and we will review the current deployment configuration.