Cookie Policy

The short version

This website sets no cookies for visitors. It asks you one question — whether to load a Google map and count your visit anonymously — and stores your answer. If you say no, or do not answer, neither happens. It carries no advertising and does not follow you from one site to another.

You can change your answer at any time: Change my choice

What a cookie is

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep, so it can recognise the browser again later. Related technologies — local storage, session storage — do much the same thing by different means. This page covers all of them.

What we store in your browser

For visitors, no cookies. No tracking pixels. No fingerprinting. One thing only is written to your browser, and it is the record of your own answer:

• ada-consent — stored in local storage, not a cookie. It holds one word, accepted or declined, so that the question is not put to you again on every page. It contains nothing about you, it is never sent anywhere, and clearing your browser data removes it. It does not exist until you answer.

Two things people usually expect to require a cookie do not require one here. The language you are reading is decided by the address of the page — /tr for Turkish, /es for Spanish — so there is nothing to remember between visits. And the contact form has no server behind it: pressing Send opens your own email application with the message already written, so nothing is submitted to us or stored anywhere until you send it yourself.

The fonts are served from our own domain rather than a font service, so no third party learns of your visit through them.

The one cookie of our own: the management panel

The people at Ada Yacht Brokerage who manage the site sign in to a private panel. When they do, the site sets one cookie:

• ada_session — keeps a signed-in partner signed in. It holds a random value, not a name or a password; scripts cannot read it; it travels only over an encrypted connection and is not sent when another site links here in a way that could misuse it. It ends when they sign out, and at the latest after fourteen days.

It is strictly necessary for the panel to work, which is why it is not part of the question on the card. Visitors who do not sign in never receive it.

Anonymous visit statistics

If you accept, two tools from our hosting provider, Vercel, run in your browser: Web Analytics, which counts page views, and Speed Insights, which measures how quickly each page loads. Neither sets a cookie or writes anything to your browser, and both send what they measure to our own domain. They record the page, the site that linked you here, your approximate location, and your browser, operating system and device type — anonymously, not tied to you or to your IP address. The management panel is never measured. Our Privacy Policy lists exactly what is recorded and for how long.

The map in the contact section

The contact section shows a map supplied by Google. It is the only part of this site that connects your browser to another company’s address, and when it loads, Google may set cookies in your browser under its own domains and may receive your IP address. Those cookies are Google’s, not ours: we cannot read them, and this policy cannot speak for what Google does with them. Google’s own privacy notice covers that.

Three things limit it. The map does not load until you accept: until then the frame is not created at all, and your address is written out beside it either way. The frame is isolated from the rest of the page and can neither read nor change anything on it. And the address of the page you are on is deliberately withheld from the request, so Google is not told which page you were reading. Once you accept, the map is shown on every visit until you change your answer.

Why we ask

Under Turkish and EU law, consent is required before anything that is not strictly necessary is loaded in your browser. The map can let Google set cookies, and the statistics report each page you view, so both wait for your answer. Declining is as easy as accepting — the two buttons are the same size and side by side — and the site works exactly the same either way, except that the map is missing.

Everyone who answered the earlier question, which was about the map alone, is asked again, because a yes to the map was not a yes to the statistics.

Changing your mind

The Change my choice button at the top of this page forgets your answer and asks the question again. If you had accepted, the page reloads first, so that the statistics stop at once. Clearing this site’s data in your browser does the same.

Every major browser also lets you see the cookies a site has set, delete them, and refuse them in future — usually under Settings, then Privacy.

Links that take you elsewhere

Buttons such as WhatsApp, and any email or telephone link, hand you to another application or another website. Nothing is sent to them until you follow the link, and once you do, that service’s own terms and privacy notice apply rather than ours.

Changes to this policy

If this site starts using anything else in your browser, this page will be updated before that happens, the date at the top will change, and you will be asked for consent where the law requires it.

Questions can be sent to adayachtbrokerage@outlook.com.