Cookie Policy
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This policy explains whether nextgeoagency.com uses cookies and similar technologies. The short answer: the site sets no cookies of its own and uses no analytics or advertising cookies. Only our security infrastructure, Cloudflare, may set strictly necessary technical cookies to protect the site. That is why there is no cookie consent banner.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves in your browser and reads back on later visits. Cookies can remember a session, store preferences, recognise a visitor or serve advertising. Browser local storage, pixels and fingerprinting techniques serve similar purposes; this policy covers all of them.
Under the guidance issued by the Turkish Personal Data Protection Board on cookie practices, cookies that are not strictly necessary for the site to work may only be used with explicit consent. Because this site uses no non-essential cookies, it needs no consent mechanism.
The site’s own cookies
nextgeoagency.com creates no cookies at all. There is no mechanism that stores a session, a language preference or user settings. Even the language is not read from a cookie or browser storage; it is derived directly from the page address (Turkish pages at the root, English pages under /en). Nothing is written to the browser’s localStorage or sessionStorage either.
Analytics: cookie-free measurement
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to measure site performance and visit counts. Unlike conventional analytics, it uses no cookies, writes nothing to browser storage and does not fingerprint visitors to identify them individually. A small script loaded from static.cloudflareinsights.com reports page views and load times in aggregated form. IP addresses are not retained in these reports.
Cookie-based analytics and advertising tools such as Google Analytics, Hotjar, Meta Pixel or LinkedIn Insight Tag are not present on the site.
Strictly necessary technical cookies (Cloudflare)
The site runs behind Cloudflare’s security and content delivery network. To tell automated bot traffic apart from real visitors, Cloudflare may set short-lived technical cookies in your browser. They are required for the site to run securely, are not used to identify or track you, and are managed by Cloudflare:
- __cf_bm: bot-management cookie. Helps distinguish automated traffic; usually expires after 30 minutes.
- cf_clearance: set only when a security challenge is shown; remembers that you passed it.
As Cloudflare updates its security products, the names or lifetimes of these cookies may change. The current list is published in Cloudflare’s own documentation. Because these cookies are strictly necessary, they do not require consent.
Third-party links
The WhatsApp button, social-media links and external references on the site take you to other websites. Once you move to those sites, their cookie policies apply. No script or embedded content from these services runs on nextgeoagency.com before you click.
How to manage cookies
You can view, delete or block cookies entirely through your browser settings. In Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge the option lives under “Privacy” or “Site data”. If you block Cloudflare’s necessary cookies the site will most likely still work, but you may be unable to reach a page when a security challenge is shown.
If cookies are added in the future
If we decide to add a cookie-based analytics, marketing or personalisation tool, it will be set up so that it runs only after your explicit consent, and this policy will be updated. No non-essential cookie will be written to your browser without consent.
Contact
For questions about cookies and data processing, write to info@nextgeo.agency. Your rights and how to exercise them are described in the Privacy Notice.