1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies may be used when you visit this website.

The website is operated by:

Desirée Fernández Rodríguez
www.desireemalinowski.com

We respect your privacy and aim to minimize the use of cookies and similar technologies to what is necessary for the operation and functionality of this website.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites may store on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. They can help a website function correctly, remember certain settings, or collect information about how visitors interact with the website.

Similar technologies, such as local storage, pixels, and scripts, may also store or access information on your device.

3. Types of Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies or similar technologies are required for essential website functions, security, or services explicitly requested by the visitor. Where legally exempt from consent requirements, they may be used without prior consent.

Functional cookies

These technologies may remember visitor preferences or settings to improve website functionality. Consent may be required depending on their purpose and operation.

Analytics cookies

These technologies may collect information about website visits and usage to help understand how visitors interact with the website. Where consent is required, they will only be activated after valid consent has been obtained.

Third-party cookies and technologies

Certain embedded content or external services, such as video players, maps, social media integrations, or external fonts, may allow third parties to store or access information on your device. Such technologies are used only where applicable and subject to the relevant legal requirements.

4. Cookies Used on This Website

This website is built and hosted using Squarespace. Cookies and similar technologies may be used to provide essential website functionality, maintain security, support account authentication, and enable other features that are active on the website.

4.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

Certain cookies and similar technologies may be necessary for the website to function correctly. Depending on the features in use, these may support secure access to restricted areas, account authentication, and essential website functionality.

Where these technologies are strictly necessary to provide a service explicitly requested by the visitor, they may be used without consent where permitted by applicable law.

4.2 Analytics and Performance Cookies

Squarespace provides built-in analytics functionality that may use cookies or similar technologies to measure website visits, visitor interactions, and traffic patterns.

The use of non-essential analytics technologies on this website depends on the website's configuration and consent settings. Where prior consent is legally required, these technologies must not be activated before valid consent has been obtained.

4.3 Contact and Account Features

Visitors may use the website's contact functionality to communicate with the website operator. If account-based features are enabled, cookies or similar technologies may also be required to support authentication and secure access.

The technologies used depend on the specific features enabled and how they are configured.

4.4 Cookie Names, Purposes, and Storage Periods

The specific cookies and similar technologies used on this website, their purposes, and their storage periods depend on the active Squarespace features and website settings.

This policy should be supplemented with an accurate list of the cookies and similar technologies identified on the live website, including their names, purposes, and storage durations where available.

For further information about Squarespace's cookie functionality, please consult the Squarespace Help Center's guide to cookies.

5. Legal Basis

Under applicable German and European law, the storage of information on or access to information from a visitor's device is generally subject to consent under § 25 of the German Telecommunications-Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG), unless a statutory exception applies.

Where personal data is processed through cookies or similar technologies, the applicable provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) also apply.

Where consent is required, the relevant technologies will only be activated after valid consent has been obtained.

6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

Where this website uses technologies requiring consent, visitors can accept or reject those technologies through the available consent mechanism.

Consent for non-essential technologies should be voluntary, informed, specific, and unambiguous. Visitors must also be able to withdraw their consent as easily as they gave it.

You may also manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect some website functions.

Please note that browser settings alone may not withdraw consent previously recorded through a website's consent-management tool.

7. Third-Party Services

At present, this website does not intentionally integrate third-party services, embedded external content, or third-party tracking tools that introduce additional cookies or similar technologies.

If third-party services are introduced in the future, this Cookie Policy will be updated accordingly. Any required consent will be obtained before activating technologies for which prior consent is legally necessary.

8. Relationship with the Privacy Policy

This Cookie Policy should be read together with the website's Privacy Policy, which explains how personal data is processed, the applicable legal bases, data retention periods, recipients, and visitors' rights.

9. Changes to This Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated when the website's technical configuration, services, or applicable legal requirements change. The latest version will be published on this page together with its update date.

10. Contact

For questions about this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies and similar technologies, you may contact:

Desirée Fernández Rodriguez
writer@desimalinowski.com