Cookie policy
This policy explains what www.vendenis.com stores in your browser, why, for how long, and how you decide. It is the detailed companion to our privacy policy and reflects exactly what the site does - the tables further down are generated from the same catalogue that drives the Privacy Preference Center.
What cookies and similar technologies are
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to keep and send back on your next request. Local storage does much the same thing without travelling with each request. Both let a site remember something between pages or between visits.
Where this policy says cookies, it means both, because the same rules apply: anything that is not strictly necessary to deliver the page you asked for requires your consent before it is stored.
How this site uses them
Vendenis uses the smallest set we can. There is no analytics, no measurement script, no advertising pixel and no third-party tag manager. Nothing here builds a profile of you, and nothing is shared with an advertising network.
What remains is the machinery the site needs - the record of your cookie choice, the protections around the staff sign-in form, and the bot filtering our network provider applies - plus two preferences you set yourself: the language you read in and the light or dark appearance.
The four categories we govern
We use the four categories that have become the industry standard, so that the choices are familiar wherever you meet them:
- Strictly Necessary - required for the site to work; these cannot be switched off and are set only in response to something you do.
- Performance - would measure how the site is used. We run none today.
- Functional - remembers the language and appearance you choose.
- Targeting - would serve advertising. We run none today.
Performance and Targeting are empty on purpose. They stay in the interface as governed gates: if we ever add a measurement or marketing tool, it is blocked until you allow that category, and it appears in the tables below on the same day.
Your choices, and how to change them
On your first visit a notice asks you to decide. You can accept everything, reject everything with a single click, or open the Privacy Preference Center and set each category individually. Refusing is exactly as easy as accepting, and no non-essential storage happens before you decide.
Your decision is not final. The Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page reopens the Privacy Preference Center, where you can change any category or withdraw consent entirely.
What happens if you refuse
The site keeps working. Every page, every document and every form remains fully available - nothing is withheld in exchange for consent.
The only difference is that we stop remembering your preferences: if you switch Functional cookies off we delete the language and appearance entries, and on your next visit the site opens in the language your browser asks for and in the appearance your operating system prefers.
Cookies set by our network provider
This site is delivered through Cloudflare, which filters attacks and automated abuse before traffic reaches our servers. To tell a person from a bot, Cloudflare may set a short-lived cookie on your browser.
It is the only third-party entry in this policy. It carries no advertising identifier and is not used to profile you; without that protection the site would be exposed to abuse it cannot absorb on its own, which is why it is classified as strictly necessary.
How long your choice lasts, and when we ask again
Your decision is stored in a first-party cookie for six months, then we ask again. We also ask again if we change what we store or what a category means, because a consent given for a different list would no longer be informed.
Clearing your browser storage removes the record of your decision, so the notice reappears on your next visit.
Changes to this policy and how to reach us
The tables below are the authoritative list. When a cookie is added or removed, this page and the Privacy Preference Center change together, because both are generated from one catalogue in our codebase.
If anything here is unclear, or you believe the site is storing something this page does not describe, write to [email protected] and we will look into it.
The cookies we set
These tables come from the same catalogue that drives the Privacy Preference Center, so the two can never disagree. Local storage keys are listed alongside cookies because the same rules apply to them.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These are needed for the site to work and cannot be switched off. They are set only in response to something you do: signing in to the admin area, protecting a form against abuse, or recording the cookie choices you make here. Without them parts of the site would stop working.
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| vendenis_consent | Stores the cookie choices you make here, so we do not ask again on every page. | 6 months | Vendenis |
| authjs.session-token | Keeps a signed-in Vendenis staff member authenticated in the admin area. It is never set for site visitors. | 12 hours | Vendenis |
| authjs.csrf-token | Protects the staff sign-in form against cross-site request forgery. It is never set for site visitors. | Browser session | Vendenis |
| __prerender_bypass | Lets a signed-in editor preview unpublished content before it goes live. It is never set for site visitors. | Browser session | Vendenis |
| __cf_bm | Set by Cloudflare, which delivers this site, to tell human visitors from automated traffic and block abuse. | 30 minutes | Cloudflare |
Performance Cookies
These would let us count visits and see which pages are read, so we could measure and improve the site. We use none today: Vendenis runs no analytics and loads no measurement script. The category stays here so that any measurement tool we may add later is blocked until you allow it.
No cookies in this category are in use today.
Functional Cookies
These remember choices you make — which of the nine language versions we serve you, and whether you prefer the light or the dark appearance — so the site opens the way you left it. They hold no identifier. If you switch this category off we delete them and stop remembering your choices between visits; the site keeps working.
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEXT_LOCALE | Records which of the nine language versions of the site we serve you. It is written on your first visit from your browser's language setting and updated whenever you switch language. | 1 year | Vendenis |
| theme | Remembers whether you chose the light or the dark appearance. It is kept in your browser's local storage and written only when you use the appearance switch. | Until you clear your browser storage | Vendenis |
Targeting Cookies
These would be set by advertising partners to build a profile of your interests. We use none: Vendenis shows no advertising and shares no data with advertising networks. The category stays here so that any marketing tool we may add later is blocked until you allow it.
No cookies in this category are in use today.