Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit websites. Along with cookies, Duomachina utilizes modern web storage technologies including **Local Storage** and **Session Storage** to ensure smooth media streaming, remember your audio/video player preferences, and maintain secure user authentication sessions. This policy explains what categories of cookies we use, why we use them, and how you can manage your preferences at any time.

We classify cookies into three distinct categories: - **1. Strictly Necessary & Essential Cookies (Always Active):** These cookies and local storage tokens are vital for the operation of the Platform. They authenticate your session via Supabase, maintain your cart state in our store, protect against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), and remember your cookie consent preferences. The platform cannot function properly without these. - **2. Performance & Analytics Cookies (Opt-In):** We utilize **Google Analytics** to gather aggregate, anonymized telemetry about how visitors discover and navigate our cultural archives, read magazines, and stream film clips. This data helps our editorial team identify high-performing content and optimize page speeds. IP addresses are anonymized, and no personally identifiable advertising IDs are linked. - **3. Functional & Media Experience Cookies (Opt-In):** These store user interface preferences, such as your audio volume level, video playback speed, dark theme settings, and closed caption preferences across sessions.

Certain cultural articles, music reviews, and festival documentation may include embedded content from external third parties (such as YouTube videos, Vimeo streams, SoundCloud tracks, or Spotify previews). When you interact with these embedded media players, the respective third-party providers may deploy their own cookies subject to their independent privacy policies. We configure embeds with privacy-enhanced modes (e.g. `youtube-nocookie.com`) wherever supported.

You have complete control over non-essential cookies on Duomachina: - **Interactive Consent Banner:** When you first visit our platform, an interactive banner allows you to **Accept All**, choose **Essential Only**, or customize specific categories. - **Adjust Preferences Anytime:** You can re-open your preferences at any moment by clicking the **"Cookie Settings"** link located in our footer or directly on this page. - **Browser-Level Controls:** Most modern browsers allow you to view, block, or delete cookies through browser settings (e.g., Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge). Note that disabling essential cookies will prevent logging in and checking out.

Session cookies expire as soon as you close your browser. Persistent cookies and local storage entries remain on your device for periods ranging from 30 days to 6 months (such as your cookie consent choice), or until you manually clear your browser cache.

For any questions about our use of cookies or data privacy, please email us at **privacy@duomachina.com**.