Cookie and Browser Storage Policy

Google Analytics and shared analytics choice

With explicit consent, Google Analytics 4 measures general pageviews, section visibility, scroll thresholds, language changes and contact-link interactions. Group, Clinic and Travel share one property and Web stream on alfaheal.com. A contact click does not confirm a conversation, appointment or sale. Clinic treatment/medical-interest categories, personal details, phone/email values, free text and raw visitor URL/query/hash input are not sent. Page addresses and titles use fixed safe codes; advertising personalisation and Google Signals are disabled.

The alfaheal:consent:v3 localStorage record keeps the version, analytics and map/external-content choices, choice time and expiry for 180 days. These choices apply across Group, Clinic and Travel. With consent, first-party _ga and _ga_5JTL2NYT4H cookies distinguish browsers/sessions for up to 180 days. The property uses 2-month retention for GA4 user/event details; aggregate reports may have different retention. Google may technically process IP/device/browser information and process data abroad. Google privacy information: https://policies.google.com/privacy. International transfers remain subject to the applicable conditions described above.

Analytics is off by default; scrolling or continued use is not consent. Use Cookie settings on Group or in the Clinic/Travel footer to switch analytics off and save, or reject all. Withdrawal stops future analytics across brands, deletes first-party GA cookies and reloads the page to remove the running tag. It does not automatically erase data already transferred; use the contact channel above for deletion requests. Analytics and map choices can be changed separately; each change applies across Group, Clinic and Travel. Withdrawing map consent removes embedded maps in all sections.

Necessary records

alfaheal:consent:v3 (localStorage) stores shared analytics and map/external-content choices for Group, Clinic and Travel, notice version, decision time and expiry for 180 days. It does not create an advertising or tracking profile. The alfaheal-language cookie is set only when you explicitly select a language and remembers that request for 365 days; it is read by the server.

Site-wide choices

Cookie preferences are requested in the section you visit first. Accept all, Reject all and individual category choices apply across Group, Clinic and Travel; switching brand or language does not prompt again. Use Cookie settings on Group or in a section footer to change shared choices. Earlier brand-scoped records do not grant the new shared map permission; the updated scope requires a new choice once.

Maps

Google Maps does not load before external-content consent. After consent Google may process IP/browser information and use its own cookies/storage. Their names and lifetimes can vary by session and Google policy; they are not first-party records. See https://policies.google.com/privacy. Enabling maps is not blanket consent for other processing purposes.

Accepting, refusing and withdrawing

The initial banner offers Reject all, Preferences and Accept all. Scrolling, continued use or dismissing the panel is not consent. Refusal does not prevent access to main content or contact links. Use Cookie settings in the footer to change your choice at any time. Withdrawal stops future optional processing and does not retrospectively affect lawful processing.

Scope and browser controls

Advertising cookies are not used. Without analytics consent, including refusal, the Google tag is not loaded and no analytics requests are sent. Browser controls can delete or block storage; if blocked you may be asked again. Storage used by external sites after following a link is controlled by those providers.