Cookie policy

This page details the cookies and trackers used by banger.lu, by category. Your choice is collected by our consent banner on arrival, can be changed at any time via "Manage my cookies" in the footer, and expires after 12 months at most.

1. Strictly necessary (placed without consent, as they are essential to the service) - "banger.consent" (local storage: remembers your consent choices; duration: 12 months); "banger.theme" (local storage: remembers light/dark mode); Supabase session cookies (only if you create an account: they keep you logged in); local anti-double-vote and anti-double-reaction locks (local storage, no personal data).

2. Audience measurement - The site may use AGGREGATED, COOKIE-FREE statistics with no individual identifier (Umami and/or Vercel Web Analytics). These tools store nothing on your device and cannot track you; legal basis: legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); object at any time: contact@banger.lu. Any TRACKING analytics tool (e.g. Google Analytics) is only activated after your explicit consent via the banner - where applicable, a dedicated note below details it.

**Our own audience measurement (aggregated, no cookie, no identifier)** - After you consent to the "audience measurement" purpose - and only then - Banger keeps three AGGREGATE COUNTERS in its own database, without using any third party: (1) article shares (article identifier, channel used - copy link, WhatsApp, X, etc. -, page language, date); (2) anonymous usage events (opening an embedded video player, clicking in a carousel, clicking out to an external site, moving to the next clip), with the target content, the platform and the language; (3) the number of reads per article (a simple total per article). What is NEVER recorded: your IP address, a cookie, a session or visitor identifier, your browser (user-agent), the page you came from. Two events therefore cannot be linked to the same person: these are statistics, not a browsing log, and no personal data within the meaning of Article 4(1) GDPR is kept in them. Your IP address is used solely, in memory and for a few moments, to limit the number of submissions per minute (anti-bot protection): it is never written to the database nor logged. A technical lock is placed in your browser's session storage (key "bz-view:" followed by the article identifier) so that the same read is not counted twice; it contains no visitor identifier and disappears when you close the tab. An important note about videos: the players are embeds from third-party platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook) and your browser forbids us from reading their state; we therefore NEVER measure a view, its duration or its completion, only the fact that the player was opened. Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time via "Manage my cookies" - withdrawal immediately stops any new measurement, and your choice is requested again at most every 12 months. Retention: as these counters relate to no identifiable person, they are kept for purely statistical purposes; for the same reason there is no technical means of locating "your" rows in them, so individual rights of access and erasure cannot apply (Art. 11 GDPR).

Audience measurement: if you consent via the cookie banner, this site uses Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Ltd / Google LLC, USA - transfers covered by the Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses) to compile visit statistics. Cookies set: _ga and _ga_* (maximum lifetime of about 13 months). You can withdraw your consent at any time via “Manage my cookies”.

3. Advertising - No advertising cookie is currently placed. If an ad network (e.g. Google AdSense) were activated, its trackers would be subject to your prior consent via the banner.

4. Social media (embeds) - X, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube posts are displayed behind a FACADE: no third-party script loads until you either consent to the "social media" purpose or explicitly click the content. When you click a video thumbnail (lightbox), the platform's official player loads immediately: the platform may then set its own trackers, under its responsibility (YouTube is called in "nocookie" mode). See the platforms' policies for details.

5. Duration and withdrawal - Your choices expire after 12 months at the latest, after which the banner is shown again. You can withdraw or change your consent at any time ("Manage my cookies", in the footer); withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of prior processing.