Cookie Policy.
What this site stores in your browser, what it loads from other servers, and how to change your choice.
In short. This website uses Google Analytics cookies only if you click Accept in the cookie banner. If you decline or ignore the banner, no analytics cookies are set. Google's analytics code is present on every page but runs in a restricted mode until you accept: it sets no cookies and reads no analytics identifiers, though your browser still contacts Google, which can receive basic technical details such as your IP address and browser type. You can change your choice at any time with Cookie settings in the footer. We use no advertising trackers.
1. What cookies and browser storage are
Cookies are small files a website saves on your device. Browser storage (local storage) does a similar job. The same privacy rules also apply to other ways of recognising your device, such as tracking pixels. This policy covers all of them. It should be read with our Privacy Policy. It is written to meet POPIA, and for EEA and UK visitors the ePrivacy rules and the GDPR consent standard.
2. What this site stores
Strictly necessary: one local storage entry that remembers your banner choice, and one cookie that remembers the site version you picked, set only if you use the Region links in the footer. Optional: two Google Analytics cookies, set only after you accept.
| Name | Type | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nlws-consent | Local storage, first party | Strictly necessary | Remembers whether you accepted or declined analytics | Until you clear it or change your choice |
| nlws-region | Cookie, first party | Strictly necessary | Remembers whether you chose the South African or UK version of the site with the Region links in the footer | 1 year |
| _ga | Cookie, Google | Analytics (consent) | Tells Google Analytics 4 returning visitors apart | Up to 2 years |
| _ga_87NY0PPZSJ | Cookie, Google | Analytics (consent) | Keeps the state of a visit (session) | Up to 2 years |
Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC, United States) receives your page views, approximate location, device and browser details if you accept. If you do not accept, it receives only basic technical details such as your IP address and browser type. The site has no advertising or social media tracking and no marketing cookies. The site is hosted by Vercel and served through Cloudflare; neither sets a cookie on your device for this site, though both handle your IP address as part of delivering the page (see the Privacy Policy). Fonts and work screenshots are served from our own server, not from a font or image provider.
3. Links on the Work page
The Work page shows screenshots stored on our own server. No preview or embed from another website is loaded. A project name or card is a plain link that opens that website in a new tab, and from then on that website's own policies and cookies apply.
4. The contact form
When you submit the contact form, your browser sends the form to formspree.io, the service that delivers it to us. Formspree may use cookies or similar technology on its own systems, for example if a verification page is shown. We do not set cookies for the form. See the Privacy Policy for what happens to the information you submit.
5. Your choice
Choose Accept or Decline in the banner. To change it later, click Cookie settings in the footer and choose again. Declining deletes the analytics cookies. Blocking cookies in your browser also works and the site behaves the same. You can still use the contact form either way.
6. Changes and contact
If we add any other cookies, analytics or tracking, we will update this page and, where the law requires it, ask for your consent before they run. Questions: mvaneck@next-lvl.tech.