1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help websites function properly, improve user experience, remember preferences, analyse website performance, and, in some cases, deliver personalised content. Cookies may be:
– Session Cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser.
– Persistent Cookies, which remain on your device until they expire or are deleted.

2. Legal Basis

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive, we only place non-essential cookies on your device after obtaining your consent.
Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent because they are essential for the operation and security of the Website.
You may withdraw or change your consent at any time through our Cookie Settings.

Cookie collector: Symbiotic Roots, Méndez Núñez 18, 1º 2ª
08010, Barcelona
Email: info@symbioticroots.org

3. Cookie Declaration

Symbiotic Roots NGO uses a combination of essential and optional cookies to ensure the Website functions correctly, to remember your preferences, and, where you have given your consent, to understand how our Website is used and to display embedded content.

The specific cookies used may change over time as the Website evolves. This section provides an overview of the categories of cookies currently used.

Essential Website Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the operation and security of the Website. They enable core functions such as page navigation, accessibility features, security measures, and the storage of your cookie consent preferences. Because these cookies are essential for the Website to function properly, they cannot be disabled through our cookie banner.

These cookies may include cookies set by WordPress, Kubio, and Complianz to ensure the Website operates correctly.

Purpose: Website functionality, security, and storing cookie consent preferences.
Type: Strictly Necessary.
Retention Period: Session-based or up to 12 months, depending on the cookie’s purpose.

Analytics Cookies

With your consent, we use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our Website. This information helps us improve the Website’s content, navigation, accessibility, and overall performance.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:
– the pages visited;
– how long visitors remain on the Website;
– the approximate geographic region of visitors;
– the device, browser, and operating system used; and
how visitors arrived at the Website.

Where available, we have configured Google Analytics to support privacy-enhancing features, such as IP anonymisation. Analytics cookies are only placed after you have provided your consent.

Purpose: Website performance measurement and improvement.
Type: Analytics.
Retention Period: Up to 2 years, depending on the specific Google Analytics cookie.

Embedded Media Cookies

Some pages on our Website may include embedded videos from YouTube. When you view or interact with this content, YouTube and its parent company, Google, may place cookies on your device.

These cookies may be used to:
– display video content correctly;
– remember playback preferences;
– measure video performance; and
– support YouTube’s own services.

Where possible, we use YouTube’s enhanced privacy mode. However, some cookies may still be placed when you interact with embedded videos. These cookies are only activated after you have provided your consent, unless they are strictly necessary for the requested functionality.

Purpose: Display embedded video content and improve user experience.
Type: Functional and, in some cases, Marketing.
Retention Period: Determined by Google/YouTube.

Cookie Consent Cookies

We use Complianz to manage cookie preferences and ensure compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive.

Complianz stores your consent choices so that you are not asked to make the same selection each time you visit our Website.

These cookies do not collect marketing information and are used solely to record and respect your privacy preferences.

Purpose: Record and manage cookie consent.
Type: Strictly Necessary.
Retention Period: Up to 12 months

When you first visit our Website, you will be presented with a cookie banner allowing you to:

– Accept all cookies
– Reject non-essential cookies
– Customise your cookie preferences

No non-essential cookies are placed before your consent has been obtained.

Managing Cookies

You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time by clicking the Cookie Settings link available on our Website.

You may also control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
-Delete cookies
– Block cookies
– Receive notifications before cookies are stored
– Disable specific categories of cookies

Please note that disabling essential cookies may affect the functionality of the Website.