Cookie Policy

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files that a website or embedded service may store in your browser. Similar technologies can read or store information on your device.

How this directory uses them

Beauty Finder is built as a static directory and does not require an account for ordinary browsing. The site may use strictly necessary storage or server-side information to deliver pages securely, protect the service and remember a consent or temporary interface preference where required.

The site also includes Google Analytics 4 and Google AdSense. These services can use cookies or similar technologies for analytics, advertising, measurement, security and fraud prevention. Whether optional storage is used can depend on your consent choice, browser settings and the configuration of Google's services.

Google Analytics 4

Google Analytics 4 helps Beauty Finder understand audience activity, including the number of users, sessions, pages viewed, approximate location and browser or device information. It uses the first-party cookie _ga to distinguish users and a property-specific cookie beginning _ga_ to maintain session state.

Google documents a default expiry of up to two years for these cookies, although the configured expiry, browser restrictions, deletion by the user or a consent choice may shorten that period. The Analytics measurement ID used by this site is G-B22MVXDW7Y. Analytics cookies are not necessary for browsing the directory.

Google AdSense

Google AdSense is used to serve and measure advertising and to help prevent invalid traffic and fraud. Google advertising technologies may use cookies or similar identifiers from domains such as google.com, doubleclick.net, googlesyndication.com or googleadservices.com. The particular names and durations can vary according to the ad delivered, your region, consent choice and Google settings.

Advertising storage can be used to limit repeated ads, measure impressions or interactions, detect abuse and, where consent has been provided, personalise advertising. Refusing personalised advertising does not necessarily prevent contextual or non-personalised ads from being displayed.

Embedded maps and third-party services

Business pages can include Google Maps embeds. When an embedded map loads, Google may process information and use cookies or similar technologies under its own policies. You can open the direct map link instead, or block third-party content through your browser settings.

Links to business websites and other external services are also governed by the policies of those services, not this cookie policy.

Managing or withdrawing consent

Where the site presents consent controls, you can accept, refuse or manage the available purposes and later change or withdraw your choice through the privacy options provided. It should be as easy to withdraw consent as it is to give it.

Most browsers also let you block, delete or limit cookies through their privacy settings. Google provides separate advertising controls through My Ad Center. Blocking strictly necessary technologies may affect how some pages or embedded content work, and browser controls do not necessarily remove information already held by a third-party service.

Policy updates

This page will be updated if the directory changes its analytics, advertising, consent tools or other technologies in a way that affects how information is stored or accessed. Cookie names and lifetimes can also change when Google updates its services.