Cookie Policy

One cookie, and you choose

Most cookie banners exist because a site is full of trackers. This one is not. The site sets exactly one cookie, and only after you answer the banner.

Name. tcc_consent

Purpose. Records whether you accepted or declined, so the banner stops asking.

Contains. The single word accepted or declined. Nothing else. No identifier, no fingerprint.

Lifetime. One year, or until you clear your browser data.

Type. First-party, functional.

Analytics, only if you accept

If you accept, the site loads Vercel Web Analytics. It counts page views, referrers and rough country, and it does that without setting any cookie of its own and without following you to other sites. There is no profile of you anywhere in it.

If you decline, the script is never added to the page. This is a real gate, not a banner that reports a preference it ignores.

You can change your mind whenever you like using the Cookie settings button in the footer.

Google Fonts is not a cookie, but you should know

The site's typefaces load from Google's font servers. That sets no cookie, but your browser has to ask Google for the files, so Google receives your IP address and user agent on every page load. It happens before the banner appears and it is not covered by declining, because there is no cookie to decline.

This is disclosed here rather than hidden, because it is the one genuinely third-party request the site makes. Serving the fonts from this domain instead would remove it entirely.

Signing in and the basket use storage, not cookies

If you sign in, the session is kept in your browser's local storage rather than in a cookie. Your basket is kept the same way. Neither is sent to a third party, neither is used to track you, and signing out removes the session.

Because they are not cookies, declining cookies does not remove them, and it does not need to: they never leave your own browser until you choose to send an enquiry.

Turning cookies off entirely

Every browser lets you block or delete cookies, usually under Settings then Privacy. Blocking this one costs you nothing except that the consent banner will ask again on each visit, because the answer is what the cookie stores.

Advertising

This site has applied to Google AdSense. No advert is shown today, and no advertising cookie is set today.

If ads do start appearing, Google and its partners may use cookies to choose and measure them, and to limit how often you see the same one. Those cookies will load only inside the Accept branch of the banner, exactly like the analytics already does: decline, and no advertising cookie is set at all.

Google's own controls are at google.com/settings/ads, and what it does with data from sites carrying its ads is at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

What is not here

• No advertising cookie unless you accept, and none at all today
• No Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, or any social tracker
• No embedded Instagram, YouTube or X players. Those are plain links, so nothing loads from them until you click
• No cross-site or third-party tracking of any kind

Payments

When you pay, Razorpay may set cookies of its own on its checkout. Those are Razorpay's, are necessary for the payment to work and to prevent fraud, and are governed by Razorpay's own privacy policy rather than this one. They are not set until you actually reach a payment.

Questions

contact@thecinemachair.in, or see the privacy policy.

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