Cookie Policy

1. What cookies and similar technologies are

Cookies are small text files that a website or its service provider can place in a browser. They may remember settings, maintain a session, measure how a service is used, or support advertising. Browser local storage performs a related function: it allows a website to retain selected information on a device, but the data is not automatically attached to every network request in the way a traditional cookie may be.

In this policy, “cookies” is sometimes used as a convenient collective term for cookies, local storage, pixels, tags, and comparable browser technologies. Some are necessary to deliver a feature requested by you. Others are optional and are activated only according to the choice recorded in the Display Lab privacy banner.

2. Necessary storage

Necessary technologies support the operation, security, appearance, and user-requested features of Display Lab. They cannot be disabled through the consent panel because the service may not function as expected without them. For example, local storage can remember your theme preference, free-tier usage counters, and the consent decision itself. If you activate PRO, Display Lab stores a secure session cookie and a local PRO status flag so that the current browser can recognize your access. An optional restoration email may also be stored on the device after a successful restoration.

The hidden administration area may use a secure authentication cookie to maintain an authorized session. Payment pages are provided by Stripe, which may use technologies that are necessary for checkout security, fraud prevention, and payment processing under Stripe's own policies. Necessary storage is not used by Display Lab to create advertising profiles.

3. Analytics

Before advertising is enabled, Display Lab can load Vercel Analytics only with your permission to understand aggregate traffic and page usage. Analytics can help identify popular tools, broken navigation, unusual performance problems, and general trends that guide improvements. The Analytics option is off by default. When the Google advertising consent platform is enabled, Display Lab disables its separately controlled Vercel Analytics component to avoid presenting overlapping consent requests.

Analytics providers may process limited technical information such as the page visited, approximate location derived from an IP address, browser or device category, referral information, and event time. Display Lab uses this information to improve the service rather than to identify the content of images processed locally in your browser. Provider retention and security practices may also apply.

4. Marketing and advertising

Display Lab includes reserved advertising areas that may serve Google AdSense ads only after the site owner enables the integration. When enabled, the Google-certified consent management platform provided through AdSense Privacy & messaging manages advertising disclosures, purposes, vendors, and choices for eligible visitors under the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. The AdSense tag must load at the top level so that Google can present that consent message; ad serving and personalization then follow the consent signals recorded by the platform.

The Google consent platform can communicate denied or granted states for advertising storage, ad user data, ad personalization, and related measurement. Its detailed vendor and purpose list is available from Manage options in the Google message. Consent does not remove privacy controls offered directly by Google or other providers.

Affiliate recommendations are first-party content modules rather than embedded advertisements. They do not set merchant cookies or load merchant scripts while displayed. If you follow a labeled affiliate link, the destination site may use its own cookies and attribution technologies under its own policies.

5. Your choices and how to change them

Before advertising is enabled, the first-party panel lets you allow Analytics or continue without it. Necessary storage remains active. Display Lab records the selection and date in displaylab_cookie_consent within local storage so that the panel does not reappear on every page. After advertising is enabled, eligible visitors receive Google's certified European regulations message with consent, refusal, and granular management options.

You can reopen Privacy Choices at any time from the persistent control in the lower corner or from the footer. It opens the active preference system: Display Lab's Analytics panel before advertising is enabled, or Google's revocation and management flow after activation. You can also delete cookies and local storage using your browser settings. Clearing all site data may also remove theme, usage counters, and other preferences.

6. Duration and third parties

The first-party consent record and functional local-storage values remain until they are replaced, cleared through the site, removed through browser controls, or deleted by browser retention rules. Google's consent platform and advertising vendors apply the durations disclosed in their active preference and vendor interfaces. Session cookies normally expire after the session or according to their configured security lifetime. Third-party services such as Google, Vercel, and Stripe may apply their own documented duration rules.

7. Privacy information and contact

For more information about personal data, legal bases, international processing, retention, and your GDPR rights, read the Privacy Policy. If you have a question about these technologies or want to exercise a privacy right, contact us at traian_an@yahoo.com. We may revise this policy when the service or its providers change and will update the date above when we do.