Cookie Policy (EU)

This Cookie Policy was last updated on October 28, 2026 and applies to visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

1. Introduction

Our website, https://aarontrotter.com (hereinafter: “the website”) is a personal portfolio. The website itself sets no cookies. With your consent it uses Google Analytics, which places cookies in your browser to count visits and link clicks. Cookies may also be placed by third parties whose content is embedded in some pages. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

The website does not set functional cookies. Your cookie choice is remembered in your browser’s local storage (the key is “at-consent”), which is not a cookie and is not sent to our server. The website owner can sign in to an administration area; that sign-in sets cookies for the owner only, after signing in, and never for visitors.

5.2 Statistics cookies

With your consent we use Google Analytics 4 to measure how the website is used: which pages are viewed, which website or link brought you here, which country or city you visit from, what kind of device you use and which links you click. Nothing from Google Analytics is loaded and no analytics cookies are set unless you click Accept. Advertising features and Google signals are switched off, and the data is not used for advertising.

5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies

The website does not use marketing or advertising cookies.

6. Placed cookies

Google Analytics (Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC): Statistics, only after consent

  • _ga: persistent, up to 2 years. Distinguishes one browser from another so visits can be counted.
  • _ga_CJ0SYJ9DY3: persistent, up to 2 years. Keeps the state of your current visit.

Google may process this data outside the European Economic Area. See Google’s privacy policy for details.

Cloudflare: Security

The website is delivered through Cloudflare. To protect the website from abuse, Cloudflare may set a security cookie (for example “__cf_bm” or “cf_clearance”) in some situations. These are needed to keep the website available and secure.

Embedded content

Some pages embed videos and documents from YouTube (loaded from youtube-nocookie.com), Vimeo, the Google Docs viewer and airpano.ru. These providers may set their own cookies when their content is loaded or played. Their policies apply to that content.

7. Consent

When you first visit the website, a banner asks whether you accept statistics cookies. Until you accept, Google Analytics is not loaded. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time with “Cookie settings” in the footer of every page. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, it is treated as a refusal until you choose otherwise.

8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.

9. Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
  • Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
  • Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
  • If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
  • Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
  • Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).

10. Contact details

For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:

Aaron Trotter
01247
Poland
Website: https://aarontrotter.com
Email: [email protected]