Cookie Policy

Last updated: 10 August 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Alvorian Snow Studio Limited uses cookies and similar browser technologies on the Alvorian Snow Studio website. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy. Our address is 5 Pukete Road, Hamilton 3200, New Zealand .

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files that a website can ask a browser to store on a device. Cookies can support functions such as maintaining a session, remembering settings, measuring usage or enabling third-party services. Similar technologies can include local storage, session storage, pixels, software development kit identifiers and other mechanisms that store or read information on a device. Not every website uses all of these technologies.

2. Current configuration of this website

The current version of the Alvorian Snow Studio website has been designed to work without third-party behavioural advertising scripts or third-party analytics trackers. Its principal front-end resources, including scripts, styles and images, are served locally with the website. We do not intentionally use advertising cookies to build behavioural profiles of visitors in the current configuration.

Normal web hosting and security infrastructure may still process technical request information such as IP address, user-agent information, timestamps, requested URLs and error or security logs. Server logs are not necessarily cookies, but they can constitute personal information and are addressed in our Privacy Policy.

3. Strictly necessary technologies

Strictly necessary technologies are those required to provide a function you request, transmit communications, maintain security, prevent abuse or keep essential site features working. If we introduce a strictly necessary cookie in the future, it will be limited to a necessary operational purpose and will not be repurposed for unrelated advertising.

4. Preference technologies

Preference cookies or local storage can remember choices such as language, display preferences or interface settings. The current site does not intentionally require a persistent preference cookie for its core public pages. If preference functionality is added, this policy will be updated to explain the purpose and retention period where appropriate.

5. Analytics technologies

Analytics tools can help website operators understand page visits, navigation patterns, performance and errors. The current front end does not intentionally load a third-party analytics service. If analytics is introduced later, we will assess whether consent is required under the laws applicable to the visitor, configure the service to minimise data where reasonably possible, and update this policy before or when the change is deployed.

6. Advertising and profiling technologies

We do not intentionally deploy third-party advertising, cross-site behavioural tracking or profiling cookies on the current website. If that changes, we will provide appropriate transparency and, where required, obtain consent before setting or reading non-essential advertising technologies.

7. Consent and lawful use

Where legislation requires consent before a non-essential cookie or similar technology is stored or accessed, we will seek that consent before activating the relevant technology. Consent should be freely given, specific, informed and capable of being withdrawn. Refusing non-essential cookies should not prevent access to ordinary website content unless a requested feature genuinely depends on the technology.

Where the GDPR applies, information generated through cookies may constitute personal data. Any resulting processing must have an appropriate lawful basis under the GDPR in addition to any separate rules that govern storage or access on a user's device.

8. How to control cookies in your browser

Most browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies and to control whether cookies are accepted. Browser controls vary by product and version. Blocking all cookies can affect websites that rely on session, account or preference features. Because the current Alvorian Snow Studio public site does not intentionally depend on advertising or analytics cookies, blocking third-party cookies should not prevent access to its core informational content.

9. Local storage and session storage

Web applications can store information using browser local storage or session storage instead of traditional cookies. The current site's core informational functionality does not intentionally rely on persistent local storage for behavioural tracking. If such storage is introduced for preferences or functional features, we will treat it consistently with applicable privacy and device-storage rules.

10. Embedded content and external services

Embedded video players, social widgets, maps, advertising platforms and externally hosted widgets can set their own cookies or transmit information to third parties. The current site has been cleaned so that its front-end operation does not require externally hosted video-player or builder services. If we later add an external embed, we will assess its privacy impact and update this policy where necessary.

11. Retention

If cookies are introduced, their retention period will be determined by purpose. Session cookies normally expire when a browser session ends, while persistent cookies remain until their configured expiry time or until the user deletes them. We will aim not to retain identifiers longer than reasonably necessary for the stated purpose.

12. Security

Cookies should not be used to store unnecessary sensitive information. Where cookies or similar technologies support authenticated or security-sensitive features, appropriate attributes and controls should be used where technically applicable, such as Secure, HttpOnly and SameSite settings. These server-set attributes depend on the final hosting and application configuration.

13. Children

We do not use cookies to create behavioural advertising profiles of children. If a future feature is specifically directed to children or processes their information through cookies, we will assess additional safeguards and any parent or guardian consent requirements that may apply.

14. First-party and third-party technologies

A first-party cookie is set by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is set by a different domain, often because a page includes an external analytics, advertising, video, map, payment or social-media service. This distinction matters because the third party may independently determine how information is processed. The current website is designed so that its ordinary page content, styling, images and scripts are served from the same project rather than loaded from third-party content networks.

If we introduce a third-party service in the future, we will assess whether it uses cookies or comparable storage, whether a consent mechanism is required, and whether this policy needs to identify the provider, purpose and retention information more specifically.

15. Server logs and information that is not a cookie

The fact that the website does not need a tracking cookie does not mean that no technical information is processed when a page is requested. A hosting provider or web server may create security and access logs containing information such as an IP address, request time, requested path, response status, user-agent information and similar connection data. These records are not necessarily stored in your browser and therefore are not cookies. They may be processed for security, troubleshooting, availability and abuse prevention, subject to the Privacy Policy and applicable law.

We seek to keep technical logging proportionate to operational needs. Hosting arrangements can change, so the precise server-log retention period may depend on the hosting environment, security requirements and legal obligations in force at the time.

16. GDPR and European consent requirements

Where European data-protection or electronic-communications rules apply, non-essential cookies and similar technologies may require prior consent before they are stored or accessed on a user’s device. Consent must be capable of being refused or withdrawn where the law requires that choice. Technologies that are strictly necessary to provide a service specifically requested by the user may be treated differently under applicable rules.

Because the current website is intended to operate without third-party behavioural advertising or optional analytics cookies, it does not deliberately place a non-essential tracking cookie merely because you view a page. If that position changes, we will update the implementation as well as this policy rather than relying on this text alone.

17. Browser privacy signals

Some browsers or privacy tools can send signals such as Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. There is not one universal technical or legal effect for every signal in every jurisdiction. We do not use the current website to conduct cross-site behavioural advertising, so there is no advertising profile on this site that needs to be switched off in response to such a signal. If we later deploy technology for which a recognised signal has a binding effect, we will review the implementation and honour applicable legal requirements.

18. How we document future cookie changes

If optional cookies are added, we intend to keep an inventory sufficient to understand the cookie or technology name, provider, purpose, category, duration and whether it is first-party or third-party. Where consent is legally required, optional technology should not be activated merely because the policy has been updated; the website should also present an appropriate choice mechanism and remember that choice only to the extent permitted by law.

You can revisit this policy to check whether the site’s cookie practices have changed. Material changes will be reflected in the effective date and, where appropriate, in the consent interface presented on the website.

19. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this policy when website technologies, service providers or legal requirements change. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised date. A material change involving new non-essential tracking will be accompanied by any consent or preference controls required by applicable law.

20. Contact

If you have questions about cookies or other browser technologies used by this website, contact us at info@alvoriansnowstudio.com .