Effective Date: 2014
Last Updated: October 2026
Website: https://astrobg.eu
Contact Email:
This Cookie Policy explains how https://astrobg.eu (hereinafter referred to as the "Website") uses cookies and similar technologies to ensure reliable functionality, security, proper operation of user accounts and payments, and anonymous traffic analysis.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone) when you access and navigate the website. They allow the platform to remember your actions and preferences (such as language selection, account login status, order progress, or consent choices) over a period of time, eliminating the need to re-enter them upon every visit.
2. Categories of Cookies We Use
At https://astrobg.eu, we use cookies categorised under the following functional classifications:
2.1. Strictly Necessary (Essential) Cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of the website and cannot be switched off in our consent management system. Without them, core services cannot be provided.
- Purpose: Managing authenticated user sessions for paid access or memberships, supporting secure online transactions, safeguarding against automated threats and DDoS attacks (via Cloudflare), and storing your preferences selected within our consent banner.
2.2. Functional Cookies
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality, navigational convenience, and personalisation.
- Purpose: Remembering visual display preferences, preserving layout parameters, and ensuring the proper rendering of embedded multimedia content.
2.3. Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies are deployed to collect aggregated, fully anonymised data concerning how visitors navigate and interact with our content.
- Tool: Google Analytics 4.
- Purpose: Monitoring traffic patterns, identifying the most viewed articles, tracking dwell time, and gathering technical browser telemetry to refine site structure. All IP addresses are automatically anonymised by default before data processing occurs.
2.4. Marketing and Targeting Cookies
These cookies track browsing behaviour across multiple websites to deliver relevant commercial advertisements.
- Current Status: https://astrobg.eu does not currently deploy third-party advertising or behavioural tracking cookies. Should commercial marketing integrations be introduced in future, they will operate strictly upon your explicit prior consent (Opt-in).
3. Managing Consent via Cloudflare Zaraz
The website employs the Cloudflare Zaraz Consent Manager to control tracking scripts and cookie deployment. Upon your initial visit, a consent banner is displayed, offering you complete control:
- Accept All: Grants consent for all functional and analytical categories;
- Reject Non-Essential: Declines all non-mandatory cookies (leaving only strictly necessary technical cookies active);
- Customise Preferences: Allows granular control over individual cookie classifications.
Your preferences are recorded automatically. You may modify or withdraw your consent at any time by clicking the "Cookie Preferences" link situated in the footer of the website.
4. Managing and Deleting Cookies via Your Browser
In addition to our on-site preference manager, you retain full capability to inspect, restrict, or delete cookies directly within your web browser settings:
- Google Chrome: chrome://settings/cookies
- Mozilla Firefox: Options → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
- Apple Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
- Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and Site Permissions
Note: Completely blocking all cookies may disable account login functionality or cause technical interruptions during checkout procedures.
5. Third-Party Infrastructure and Security Providers
- Cloudflare (Zaraz, WAF, SSL): Delivers website security, SSL encryption, and privacy-compliant script loading in full adherence to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
- Google Analytics 4: Processes aggregated, anonymised statistical metrics regarding visitor engagement.
- Secure Payment Gateways: Provides encrypted, tokenised sessions during payment card checkout.
6. Policy Updates
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect architectural changes, the addition of novel features, integration of further payment gateways, or evolving legal standards. Any revisions will be published on this page alongside an updated effective date.
7. Contact Us
Should you have any questions concerning our use of cookies or how we protect your personal data, please contact us at:
Email:
Website: https://astrobg.eu