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Manage Cookies & Privacy Preferences at GeoSmar
Review and manage how GeoSmar uses cookies and similar technologies on this website. Choose which optional categories you allow, change your preferences at any time, or keep only essential functions.
Cookie Preferences
Choose what this website may store or access on your device.
Essential technologies remain available because they are required for core website functions. Optional categories stay off unless you choose to allow them. You can return to this page and change your preference later.
Strictly Necessary
Required for core website operation, security, preference storage or functions you explicitly request. These cannot be switched off in this preference centre.
Functional
Optional technologies that can remember choices or enable enhanced website features when those services are actually deployed.
Analytics
Optional measurement technologies used to understand how visitors use the site and where the experience can be improved, if analytics services are enabled.
Marketing
Optional technologies used for advertising, campaign measurement or cross-site marketing where such services are enabled. GeoSmar does not assume consent for this category.
What Cookies Are
Small files and related technologies that help websites remember or measure activity.
Cookies are small text files placed on a computer, phone or other device when a website is used. Similar rules can also apply to technologies that store or access information on a device, including local storage, pixels, scripts, tags and comparable mechanisms.
Set by the website you visit
These can remember preferences, maintain a session or support site functions controlled by the website operator.
Set by an external service
Embedded analytics, media, advertising or other services may use their own storage or access technologies when they are enabled.
Session or persistent
A session cookie normally expires after the browsing session. A persistent cookie can remain for a defined period or until it is deleted.
Cookie Categories
Purpose matters more than the label.
The categories below describe the kinds of purposes that may exist on a modern website. They do not claim that every category is currently active on geosmar.com. The live website configuration and cookie register should determine what is actually used.
Strictly Necessary
Security, session integrity, load balancing, preference storage or another function genuinely required to provide the site or a service requested by the visitor.
Functional
Enhanced preferences or features that are useful but not essential to the basic delivery of the website.
Analytics
Measurement of site usage, interaction patterns and performance where an analytics service has been enabled and the applicable consent rule is satisfied.
Marketing
Advertising, campaign attribution, remarketing or cross-site tracking where such tools are deployed and the required permission has been obtained.
Your Control
Accepting optional technologies should be a choice, not a condition hidden in the page.
GeoSmar’s intended approach is to keep optional categories disabled until a visitor makes a clear choice, provide a practical way to refuse them, and allow the visitor to return to this page to change that choice.
Clear choice
Optional cookies should not be treated as accepted simply because a visitor continues browsing.
Comparable controls
Accepting and refusing optional technologies should both be easy to understand and easy to perform.
Change later
A visitor should be able to revisit the preference centre and adjust a prior decision without searching through unrelated pages.
Cookie Register
Publish only what the live website actually uses.
A reliable cookie register should identify the real technology, provider, purpose and retention period found on the live GeoSmar website. This page deliberately does not invent cookie names or lifetimes that have not been verified.
| Category | Current disclosure rule | What must be verified before listing |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly Necessary | List each active essential cookie or storage mechanism used by the live site. | Name, provider, purpose, whether first/third party, and retention. |
| Functional | List only if a functional technology is actually deployed. | Service, purpose, consent status, duration and any external provider. |
| Analytics | List only if an analytics service is actually deployed. | Platform, cookie/storage names, purpose, duration and transfer/provider details where relevant. |
| Marketing | List only if marketing or advertising technology is actually deployed. | Provider, tracking purpose, identifiers, duration and relevant third-party information. |
Legal & Regulatory Context
A global website can face different cookie and privacy rules in different jurisdictions.
Rauz Caucasus LLC is based in Georgia and GeoSmar is designed for international visitors. Applicable requirements therefore depend on the visitor, technology, processing purpose and jurisdiction. The references below are official public sources used to shape this page.
Georgia — Personal Data Protection
Georgia’s current Law on Personal Data Protection protects fundamental rights and freedoms in the processing of personal data. It is a data-protection framework; this page does not treat it as a cookie-specific rule where the law does not say so.
Official Matsne source ↗United Kingdom — ICO guidance
The ICO’s 2026 guidance covers cookies and other storage/access technologies, including local storage, pixels, scripts and tags. It distinguishes technologies that need consent from applicable exceptions such as genuinely necessary functions.
Official ICO guidance ↗European Union — European Commission
The European Commission’s own cookie policy explains first-party and third-party cookies, session and persistent cookies, operational functions, analytics and browser-based controls. Its public privacy guidance also warns against designs that make refusal harder than acceptance.
European Commission cookie policy ↗Browser Controls
You can also control cookies through your browser.
Browser settings can usually delete existing cookies, block some or all cookies, restrict third-party cookies, or clear stored data. Blocking essential technologies may prevent parts of a website from working as intended.
Delete cookies already stored on your device
Block third-party or all cookies
Use private / incognito browsing
FAQs
Common questions about cookie preferences.
Are optional cookies enabled automatically?
Can I change my mind later?
Why can’t I switch off Strictly Necessary?
Does GeoSmar currently use every category shown here?
Do cookie rules apply only to cookies?
Where can I read GeoSmar’s broader privacy information?
GeoSmar Privacy Policy →
Privacy Questions
Need clarification about GeoSmar website privacy or cookie preferences?
Use the GeoSmar contact route for questions about website privacy, cookie settings or the technologies used on geosmar.com. For project and monitoring enquiries, use the technical contact page instead.