Artells Media

Cookie Policy

Version 3 · effective October 4, 2026

Artells Media (Individual Entrepreneur Marina Abramova, Varkhani, 7th Street N7, Adigeni Municipality, Georgia (Identification No. 322783653)) uses a deliberately small set of cookies and similar technologies.

What we set

Name Type Purpose Lifetime
artells_author Strictly necessary (cookie) Keeps you signed in to your account 90 days
artells_admin Strictly necessary (cookie) Editors' admin session 14 days
artells_admin_pending Strictly necessary (cookie) Remembers the editor's email while the sign-in code is on its way 15 minutes
artells-cookie-consent Strictly necessary (localStorage) Remembers your cookie choice Until you clear it
artells_ref Functional (cookie) Remembers who invited you so your friend gets their referral credit 30 days
_ga, ga* (Google Analytics) Analytics (cookie) Anonymous usage statistics Up to 2 years
_ym_uid, _ym_d, _ym_isad, _ym_visorc and similar (Yandex Metrica) Analytics (cookie and localStorage) Anonymous usage statistics and session replay (Webvisor) Up to 1 year

Consent

Analytics cookies load only after you press Accept on the cookie banner; before that, no analytics run at all. Strictly necessary cookies work without consent because the site cannot function without them.

Session replay

With your consent, Yandex Metrica's Webvisor records how pages are used (scrolling, clicks, mouse movement) so we can see what is confusing or broken. Whatever you type into forms is never recorded, private messages are hidden from recordings, and the editors' admin area is never measured.

Changing your mind

Press Cookie settings in the footer at any time: it clears your stored choice and shows the banner again. You can also delete cookies in your browser.

Third parties

Google Analytics / Tag Manager (Google LLC, USA) and Yandex Metrica (YANDEX LLC, Russia) process analytics data on our behalf under their data processing terms. Analytics data reaches them only if you press Accept. No advertising or marketing pixels are used.