Cookie Policy
**Last Updated: [DATE]**
Climb and Claim ("Climb and Claim", "we", "us", or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on our website and services (the "Platform").
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, why we use them, what types of cookies may be placed on your device, and how you can manage your preferences.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our [Privacy Policy] and [Terms and Conditions].
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## 1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow websites to recognize your device, remember certain information, provide functionality, improve security, understand how visitors use the website, and, where permitted, measure or personalize advertising.
We may also use technologies similar to cookies, including pixels, tags, local storage, and other identifiers.
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## 2. How We Use Cookies
Depending on your choices and applicable legal requirements, we may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
* operating and securing the Platform;
* maintaining login sessions and account functionality;
* remembering cookie and privacy preferences;
* preventing fraud, abuse, and malicious activity;
* understanding how visitors use our Platform;
* measuring website performance;
* improving the design and functionality of the Platform;
* measuring advertising campaigns;
* understanding interactions with our advertisements and marketing;
* creating or measuring advertising audiences where permitted;
* measuring conversions and campaign effectiveness.
Some cookies are strictly necessary for the operation and security of the Platform. Other cookies are used only where we have obtained the required consent.
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## 3. Categories of Cookies
We generally classify cookies into the following categories.
## 3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the Platform to function properly.
They may be used for purposes such as:
* authentication and login;
* maintaining secure sessions;
* security and fraud prevention;
* load balancing and infrastructure management;
* remembering essential privacy or cookie preferences;
* protecting the Platform against malicious traffic;
* maintaining basic website functionality.
Because these cookies are necessary for the operation of the Platform, they generally cannot be disabled through our cookie preference tool without affecting certain functionality.
Examples may include cookies associated with Cloudflare security and traffic-management services.
Cloudflare states that cookies used for services such as bot detection, CAPTCHA, and load balancing can be strictly necessary for providing the requested service.
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## 3.2 Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow the Platform to remember choices or settings made by you and provide enhanced functionality.
For example, they may be used to remember:
* cookie preferences;
* certain interface preferences;
* session-related settings;
* other choices required to provide requested functionality.
Where applicable, these cookies will only be used according to your selected preferences and applicable legal requirements.
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## 3.3 Analytics / Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use Climb and Claim.
We may use **Google Analytics** and related Google technologies for this purpose.
Depending on the configuration and your consent, Google Analytics may collect information such as:
* pages viewed;
* approximate geographic information;
* browser and device information;
* referral information;
* interactions with website elements;
* session information;
* approximate time spent on pages;
* events and conversions;
* information about how visitors navigate the Platform.
Google Analytics primarily uses first-party cookies and identifiers to measure interactions with websites.
Analytics cookies are not intended to identify you directly by name.
We configure our analytics services so that we do not intentionally send directly identifying information such as your name, email address, password, payment-card information, or similar data to Google Analytics.
Analytics cookies are used only where the required consent has been obtained.
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## 3.4 Advertising and Marketing Cookies
We may use advertising and marketing technologies to measure advertising campaigns and understand the effectiveness of our marketing activities.
These technologies may include:
* **Meta Pixel**;
* Google advertising-related tags;
* Google Tag Manager;
* other advertising or conversion measurement technologies that we may introduce in the future.
Depending on your consent and the configuration of these services, advertising technologies may be used to:
* measure advertising conversions;
* understand interactions with advertisements;
* create or measure advertising audiences;
* evaluate campaign performance;
* support remarketing or personalized advertising where permitted;
* improve advertising relevance.
Meta describes its Pixel and related technologies as tools that can be used to measure advertising effectiveness, build audiences, and support advertising and retargeting activities.
Advertising and marketing cookies or similar technologies will only be activated where the required consent has been obtained.
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## 4. Google Tag Manager and Google Tags
We may use **Google Tag Manager (GTM)** to manage tags and tracking technologies used on the Platform.
Google Tag Manager itself is primarily a tag-management system, but tags deployed through it may include analytics, advertising, conversion tracking, or other technologies.
We may also use Google tags connected to services such as Google Analytics or Google Ads.
Where required, our implementation is intended to use Google's Consent Mode so that Google tags respond to the user's consent choices.
Google's Consent Mode provides consent signals such as:
* `analytics_storage`;
* `ad_storage`;
* `ad_user_data`;
* `ad_personalization`.
These signals allow Google tags to adjust their behavior according to the user's consent choices.
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## 5. Google Analytics
We may use Google Analytics to obtain statistical information about the use of the Platform.
Google Analytics may use cookies and similar identifiers to understand visitor interactions.
Depending on our configuration and your consent, information collected through Google Analytics may include:
* device and browser information;
* pages visited;
* events and interactions;
* traffic sources;
* approximate location;
* session information;
* technical information;
* conversion information.
Google states that customers using Google Analytics must inform users about the relevant data collection and provide the opportunity to grant or deny consent where required.
For more information about how Google processes information, please refer to Google's applicable privacy and cookie documentation.
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## 6. Meta Pixel
We may use the **Meta Pixel** to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and understand actions visitors take after interacting with advertisements.
Depending on your consent, Meta may receive information relating to interactions with our website and advertising campaigns.
This may allow us to measure events such as:
* page visits;
* registrations;
* purchases;
* advertising conversions;
* interactions with specific pages or actions.
The Meta Pixel may also support audience creation and advertising measurement.
We will use these technologies in accordance with applicable consent requirements and the configuration of our consent-management system.
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## 7. Cloudflare
We may use **Cloudflare** to provide infrastructure, security, performance, traffic management, and protection against malicious activity.
Cloudflare may place or process certain strictly necessary cookies or similar technologies on visitors' devices.
These technologies can be used for purposes such as:
* identifying malicious traffic;
* bot detection;
* CAPTCHA or challenge functionality;
* load balancing;
* security;
* protecting the Platform from abuse;
* maintaining service availability.
Cloudflare documents several cookies used for security and traffic-management purposes, including cookies associated with bot detection, CAPTCHA, and load balancing.
Cloudflare cookies used for strictly necessary security and infrastructure purposes may operate without optional analytics or advertising consent where they are necessary to provide the requested service and permitted by applicable law.
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## 8. Cookie Consent
When you first visit the Platform, we may display a cookie consent banner allowing you to choose which optional categories of cookies you accept.
Depending on the configuration of our consent-management system, you may be able to:
* accept all cookies;
* reject optional cookies;
* accept or reject specific categories;
* change your preferences later.
We do not treat your continued use of the website as consent to optional cookies where applicable law requires an affirmative consent.
Where required, optional analytics and advertising technologies remain disabled until the relevant consent is provided.
Google recommends obtaining user consent and communicating consent signals to Google so that Google tags can respect the user's choices.
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## 9. Changing or Withdrawing Your Consent
You may change or withdraw your consent to optional cookies at any time.
A **"Cookie Settings"**, **"Cookie Preferences"**, or similar link may be available on the Platform to allow you to review or change your preferences.
Changing your preferences does not necessarily delete cookies that have already been stored on your device. Previously stored cookies may need to be deleted separately through your browser settings.
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## 10. Browser Cookie Controls
Most modern browsers allow you to control or delete cookies through their settings.
You can generally configure your browser to:
* block cookies;
* delete existing cookies;
* receive a notification before cookies are stored;
* block third-party cookies;
* delete cookies when the browser is closed.
Please note that blocking or deleting strictly necessary cookies may cause parts of the Platform to stop working correctly.
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## 11. Cookies Used by Third Parties
Some technologies used on the Platform may be provided by third parties.
These third parties may process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.
Depending on the services active on the Platform, third-party providers may include:
* Google;
* Meta;
* Cloudflare;
* payment providers;
* analytics providers;
* advertising and marketing providers;
* other service providers we may introduce in the future.
Third-party services may change over time. We may add, remove, or replace service providers where reasonably necessary for operating, securing, improving, or marketing the Platform.
Where required, we will update this Cookie Policy and our consent mechanisms accordingly.
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## 12. Cookies and Personal Information
Some cookies and similar identifiers may constitute personal data under applicable privacy laws, depending on the information involved and how it is combined with other information.
Where cookie-related information constitutes personal data, it is processed in accordance with our **Privacy Policy** and applicable data protection laws.
For information about:
* your privacy rights;
* legal bases for processing;
* data retention;
* international data transfers;
* third-party processors and service providers;
* data security;
* how to contact us;
please refer to our Privacy Policy.
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## 13. Cookie Lifetimes
Cookies may be either:
## Session Cookies
These cookies are temporary and are generally deleted when you close your browser.
## Persistent Cookies
These cookies remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them manually.
The exact duration of a cookie may vary depending on the service provider, cookie purpose, and our configuration.
Cookie durations may also change when third-party services update their technologies or when we change our configuration.
Where technically and legally appropriate, we configure cookies to have a reasonable lifespan corresponding to their purpose.
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## 14. Cookie List
The following table provides examples of technologies that may be used on the Platform.
The exact cookies and identifiers present at any particular time may vary depending on the services currently enabled and the user's consent choices.
| Provider | Technology / Example | Purpose | Category |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- |
| Climb and Claim | Session / authentication cookies | Login, account functionality and secure sessions | Strictly Necessary |
| Climb and Claim | Cookie preference cookie | Stores cookie consent choices | Strictly Necessary / Functional |
| Cloudflare | Security / bot-management cookies | Security, bot detection and malicious traffic prevention | Strictly Necessary |
| Cloudflare | Load balancing cookies | Traffic management and service availability | Strictly Necessary |
| Google | Google Analytics cookies | Website analytics and performance measurement | Analytics |
| Google | Google Tag / GTM-related technologies | Tag management and measurement | Analytics / Advertising |
| Google | Advertising-related identifiers | Conversion measurement and advertising | Advertising |
| Meta | Meta Pixel | Advertising measurement, audience and conversion tracking | Advertising |
| Other providers | As applicable | Services introduced in the future | Depends on purpose |
The exact cookie names, expiration periods, domains, and values may change as services and configurations are updated.
For this reason, this table should be reviewed whenever a new tracking technology is installed or an existing service is materially changed.
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## 15. Do Not Track
Some browsers provide a "Do Not Track" ("DNT") feature.
Because there is currently no universally accepted standard for interpreting DNT signals across all technologies and services, our Platform may not respond to every DNT signal.
Where applicable law requires a specific response to browser-based privacy signals, we will implement the required functionality.
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## 16. International Data Transfers
Some third-party service providers used by Climb and Claim may process information outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA, we will rely on appropriate safeguards where required by applicable data protection law.
These safeguards may include adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses, or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.
Please refer to our Privacy Policy for additional information about international data transfers.
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## 17. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.
Changes may be necessary when:
* we introduce new services;
* we add or remove cookies;
* tracking technologies change;
* our Platform changes;
* legal or regulatory requirements change;
* our service providers change.
When we make material changes, we may update the "Last Updated" date and, where appropriate, request your consent again.
We encourage you to review this page periodically.
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## 18. Contact Us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or similar technologies, please contact us:
**Climb and Claim**
**Legal Entity:** [COMPANY LEGAL NAME]
**Address:** [FULL ADDRESS]
**Registration Number:** [REGISTRATION NUMBER]
**VAT/CUI Number:** [VAT/CUI NUMBER]
**Email:** [PRIVACY EMAIL]
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## 19. Related Policies
For additional information, please see:
**Privacy Policy** "/page/privacy-policy"
**Terms and Conditions**
**Advertising Policy**
**Refund and Cancellation Policy**
**Acceptable Use Policy**
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**Last Updated:** 02.10.2026