Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by the websites you visit. They allow a site to remember information such as your language preference, whether you have already seen the consent banner, or how you move through pages.

Similar technologies — such as local storage, pixels, and tags — can achieve comparable results. In this Policy, "cookies" refers to all such technologies.

Cookies can be "first-party" (set by galatacpa.com) or "third-party" (set by another domain loaded from our site). They can also be "session" (deleted when you close the browser) or "persistent" (kept for a defined period).

2. Cookies We Use

Essential cookies (always on): these are necessary for the site to function — for example to remember your language choice, your consent decisions, and to protect contact-form submissions against abuse. They do not require consent.

Analytics cookies (off by default): Google Analytics 4 and, where enabled, Cloudflare Web Analytics help us understand aggregate traffic patterns, popular pages, and referral sources. They are loaded only after you accept them in our consent banner.

Preference cookies: remember the language you last viewed so that you land on the correct localised page on return visits.

We do not use advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, or social-network tracking on galatacpa.com.

3. Third-Party Cookies

Google Analytics 4 (provider: Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC): loaded only after consent. It uses identifiers stored in cookies or local storage to distinguish unique devices in aggregate. IP anonymisation is enabled.

Cloudflare (provider: Cloudflare, Inc.): handles hosting, CDN, and security. Cloudflare may set a small security cookie (for example to verify the browser is not a bot) that is classified as strictly necessary. Cloudflare Web Analytics is cookieless.

If you decline analytics in the consent banner, third-party analytics scripts are not loaded at all. You can change your consent at any time via the "Cookie settings" control in the site footer.

4. How to Manage Cookies

Via our consent banner: on your first visit we show a banner with "Accept", "Reject" and granular options. You can revisit these choices at any time using the "Cookie settings" link in the footer.

Via your browser: all modern browsers let you view stored cookies, delete them, or block them for specific sites. Instructions are available in your browser's help pages (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, Brave, Opera).

Do Not Track signals and Global Privacy Control: where your browser sends a recognisable opt-out signal, we treat it as a request to disable non-essential analytics for that session.

Disabling essential cookies may cause parts of the website to malfunction, for example the language switcher or the contact form.

5. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in the cookies we use, applicable law, or our business practices. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page shows the effective version.

When changes are material, we will re-display the consent banner so that you can review and, if you wish, refresh your choices before continuing to use the site.

For any question about this Policy, please email info@galatacpa.com.