Cookie Policy
Last updated: 1 January 2026
1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on a visitor's device when they visit a website. They are widely used across the web to make sites function correctly, to remember visitor preferences, and to provide information about how a site is used.
Cookies set by the website owner are called first-party cookies. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called third-party cookies. Third-party cookies enable features or functionality provided by third parties, such as analytics tools and embedded content. The party setting the cookie can recognise the visitor's device both when it visits the website in question and when it visits certain other websites.
2. Why Arelon Review Uses Cookies
Cookies allow Arelon Review to recognise returning visitors and maintain preferences, to understand how readers navigate between pages, to identify which articles are most frequently read, and to ensure the site displays correctly across different devices and browsers. The publication does not use cookies for behavioural advertising or cross-site tracking.
3. Cookie Categories
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to function. They cannot be switched off in the publication's systems. They are typically set in response to actions made by the visitor, such as setting privacy preferences or submitting a contact form. No personal data is stored in these cookies beyond a session identifier.
Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies allow the publication to count visits and understand how readers move through the site. The information collected is aggregate and anonymous — it does not identify individual visitors. This data helps the editorial team understand which articles are most read and how the site can be improved.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies enable the site to provide enhanced features. These include font loading preferences and embedded content rendering. Disabling these cookies may affect how parts of the site display, but will not prevent access to editorial content.
4. Managing Cookie Preferences
Readers can manage their cookie preferences at any time using the Cookie Settings option in the footer of this page. Preferences selected through the cookie banner are stored in a first-party cookie and remain active for twelve months.
In addition to the publication's own consent tool, readers may configure their browser to refuse or delete cookies at any time. The major browser configurations are available at the following links:
- — Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and Other Site Data
- — Mozilla Firefox: Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and Site Data
- — Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data
- — Microsoft Edge: Settings > Privacy, Search, and Services > Cookies and Site Permissions
Note that disabling all cookies may affect the functioning of some website features. Access to editorial content is not contingent on accepting any non-essential cookies.
5. Opting Out of Analytics
Readers who wish to opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites may install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available from Google's official support pages. This prevents the analytics script from sharing data about the visitor's session with Google Analytics.
Declining performance cookies in the Arelon Review cookie banner also prevents analytics tracking on this site specifically during the current session and for future visits while that preference remains active.
6. Policy Updates
This Cookie Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in cookie usage or in applicable data protection requirements. The date of the most recent revision appears at the top of this page.
Questions about this policy should be directed to the editorial office at [email protected].
Use the button below to open the cookie preferences panel and review or update your selections at any time.