Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

This policy explains how Cellar Advisor uses cookies and similar technologies on cellar-advisor.com, and how you can control them.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help the site work correctly, and some help us understand how it is used or measure our advertising.

Cookies we use

When you first visit the site you are asked to choose which categories to allow. Analytics and marketing cookies are not set unless you accept them. You can change your choice at any time using the “Cookie settings” link in the footer of every page.

Strictly necessary (always active)

• __cf_bm, cf_clearance (Cloudflare Turnstile). Protects our forms from automated abuse. Up to 30 minutes.
• NEXT_LOCALE. Remembers whether you are viewing the English or German version of the site. 1 year.
• ca_consent_v2. Records the cookie choices you made, so you are not asked on every visit. Kept in your browser’s local storage until you change your choice or clear your browser.

Analytics (only with your consent)

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages are read and where visitors leave, so we can improve the site. It is not used to identify you personally.

• _ga. Distinguishes one visitor from another. 2 years.
• _ga_G93ZN4S9X2. Keeps track of the current visit for Google Analytics 4. 2 years.

Marketing (only with your consent)

We use Google Ads to measure which campaigns bring people to the site and to show relevant advertising elsewhere.

• _gcl_au (Google Ads conversion linker). Records that you arrived from an advert, so a resulting enquiry can be attributed to the right campaign. 90 days.
• ca_attribution (set by us, not by Google). Records the campaign or link that brought you to the site so an enquiry can be credited to it. 90 days.
• IDE, test_cookie (set by Google on doubleclick.net). Used by Google to measure advertising performance. Up to 13 months.

Managing your cookies

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time using the “Cookie settings” link in the footer of every page. Declining a category stops those cookies being set from that point on. You can also control cookies through your browser settings, though blocking all cookies may affect how parts of the website work.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. The date this page was last reviewed is shown above.