1. What we mean by cookies
In this policy, we also use the term “cookies” for similar browser technologies, in particular local storage (localStorage). Not every item listed below is a conventional cookie file.
Necessary technologies support the website’s core operation and security, remember language and market choices, and store your consent decision. Optional categories are used only after you consent.
2. How your choice works
On your first visit, you can accept all optional categories, reject them, or adjust them individually. Analytics and marketing technologies, as well as external media content, remain disabled until you make a choice that allows them.
We keep the cookie consent decision for 180 days. It is tied to the consent configuration version; after a material change, the website will ask you to choose again.
3. Technologies and services overview
| Category | Technology or service | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary | Consent record in localStorage and a protective sessionStorage/cookie choice | Pixxla | Stores selected categories, version and expiry. The protective pixxla_measurement_block cookie prevents a stale grant from returning after a failed write. | 180 days; sessionStorage while the tab is open |
| Necessary | Language and market choice in localStorage and a cookie | Pixxla | Displays the selected language and relevant market locations and prevents automatic geographic routing from overriding a manual choice. | 30 days from a manual choice |
| Necessary | Weather forecast through the Pixxla server | Open-Meteo / Pixxla | Our servers request a forecast for the sauna’s fixed location. Your browser does not connect to Open-Meteo directly or share your IP address with it. | Cached for no more than 90 minutes |
| Necessary | Booking module | Reenio | Displays availability and enables a booking. Optional analytics and marketing flags reflect your choice. | While using the module; any provider storage follows its settings |
| External content | Instagram posts and images | Meta Platforms / Instagram | Displays current content from the @pixxla.sauna profile. | While loading; any provider storage is determined by the provider |
| External content | Reviewers’ profile photos | Displays the reviewer’s Google profile photo alongside a review. | While loading; any provider storage is determined by the provider | |
| External content | YouTube video thumbnails | Google / YouTube | Displays a video preview within Wellness Journal content. | While loading; any provider storage is determined by the provider |
| Analytics | Google Analytics 4 | Measurement of traffic, website performance and content usage. | Active only after analytics consent; then according to the service settings, generally no longer than 2 years | |
| Marketing | Meta Pixel | Meta Platforms | Campaign measurement, attribution and delivery of relevant advertising. | Active only after marketing consent; then according to the service settings |
4. External content and the booking system
External media is loaded only when you allow the External content category. When an image or thumbnail is requested, the relevant provider may receive technical data such as your IP address, browser type and the address of the page you visited.
Reenio is the core booking module. It may load on a sauna page so that you can view available times and make a booking. Before it loads, the website passes analytics and marketing consent flags that reflect your current settings. If you do not allow marketing, the site removes the gclid, fbclid, sznclid and gad_source advertising identifiers from the page address before starting the module.
6. How to change or withdraw consent
You can change your choice at any time through the “Cookie settings” link in the website footer. If you withdraw analytics or marketing consent, we save your new choice and automatically reload the page so that already loaded measurement tags are removed and send no further requests.
If an external provider has already stored data directly in your browser, you can also remove it through your browser settings. Blocking all browser storage may prevent the website from remembering your language, market or consent decision.
7. Changes to this policy
The list of technologies may change as the website evolves. The current settings are tied to a consent version. If we add a service that materially changes the scope of optional processing, we will increase that version and ask you to choose again.
8. Contact
For questions about our use of cookies and privacy, email us at pixxla.sauna@gmail.com.