Cookie Policy

Upon your next visit to the site, your browser transmits these files back to enable the site to identify your session, recall your settings, and analyze page performance. Equivalent tools - including local storage, session storage, and small tracking pixels - function similarly, and all such technologies are encompassed by this policy under the collective term "cookies".

A cookie generally contains the name of the site that set it, a value (often a random identifier) and an expiry date. Cookies cannot read other files on your device and are not programs.

Storm Capholm employs cookies for website security and operation, to retain your preferences, to identify which content proves valuable, and - with your permission - to evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising efforts. Essential cookies are automatically placed upon your initial visit since the site requires them to function. Remaining cookie types are enabled solely once you provide your approval, and this approval can be revoked whenever you choose.

Strictly necessary cookies

These keep the site usable: they maintain your session while you move between pages, balance traffic across servers, protect forms against automated abuse and remember the cookie choices you have already made. They do not build a profile of you and cannot be switched off through our banner, because without them core functions such as signing in would fail.

Preference (functionality) cookies

These remember the settings you choose - for example the interface language, a region, a display preference or whether you have dismissed an informational notice. They make the site more convenient but are not essential; if you refuse them, the site still works and simply asks for your preferences again on each visit.

Analytics (performance) cookies

These enable us to track page visits, identify which content is accessed, measure session duration, and detect where problems arise. The data we collect is presented in aggregate form: we learn whether a page attracts high traffic or performs slowly, but not your identity. We apply this information to resolve issues and enhance the site's organization.

Marketing (advertising) cookies

These record that you arrived from a particular campaign or advertisement, help avoid showing you the same message repeatedly, and measure whether a campaign led to a sign-up. They may be read by advertising partners on other websites. They are only set with your explicit consent.

Session cookies remain active only during your browser session and are automatically deleted upon closing your browser. Persistent cookies remain until their expiry date or until you delete them; on this site their lifetimes range from a few days to roughly two years, depending on the purpose. The exact expiry of an individual cookie can always be inspected in your browser’s storage settings.

We keep the record of your consent choices for a limited period so that the banner does not reappear at every visit; after that period we will ask again.

Certain cookies are placed by third-party service providers operating on our behalf, including providers of website traffic analysis, content distribution, security measures, or ad performance tracking. These providers are able to access their own cookies across other websites that utilize their services. We are not responsible for managing third-party cookie content; their handling of collected information is subject to their own privacy and cookie policies.

Where a third-party cookie is not strictly necessary, it is only placed after you have consented through the cookie banner. If you would like a list of the providers currently in use, contact support and we will provide the up-to-date details.

Through our banner

Manage your cookie preferences by using the cookie banner or the cookie preferences option available on the website to approve or decline the preference, analytics, and marketing cookie categories. Declining a category prevents future cookies in that category from being stored; previously stored cookies can be deleted using your browser's tools.

Through your browser

All major browsers allow you to view stored cookies, delete them individually or entirely, block cookies from specific sites, block all third-party cookies, or delete everything automatically when the browser closes. You will normally find these controls under a menu named “Settings”, then “Privacy”, “Privacy and security”, “Site permissions” or “Cookies and site data”. Mobile browsers offer the same options in their settings screens, and mobile operating systems provide separate controls for advertising identifiers.

Private browsing

Accessing the site through a private or incognito browsing session results in most cookies being automatically removed when you exit that window, though this does not stop cookies from being created during your session.

Blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent parts of the site from working: you may be unable to stay signed in, submit a form or complete a secure step. Blocking preference cookies means settings such as language are not remembered. Blocking analytics or marketing cookies has no effect on functionality - you will simply not be counted in our statistics and campaign measurement.

We review this policy periodically and update it when the cookies we use, the technologies behind them or the applicable rules change. The current version is always published on this page; material changes will be signalled on the site or through the cookie banner, and continued use after the update means the revised policy applies.

If you have a question about this policy, want details of a specific cookie or wish to exercise a data-protection right, please write to our support team through the contact page. Related documents are listed in the footer of every page, including our Privacy Policy.

Read the Privacy Policy