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Cookie Policy
This explains the cookies and similar technologies we use on lumenus.life, and the choices you have. The short version: we use only what the Service needs, our analytics set no cookies, and we do not place advertising trackers anywhere. We do not use your grief or health data for advertising.
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1. What cookies are
Cookies are small data files placed on your device when you visit a website or use an app. Similar technologies include pixels, tags, local storage, and software development kits (SDKs). Some are removed when you close your browser (session), and some persist (persistent). We describe both here.
2. What we use, and what we do not
We use what is necessary, and we measure usage without cookies. Our website analytics are cookieless and aggregate: they set no cookies and store no personal identifiers. We do not place advertising or cross-site tracking anywhere on the Service, and never on the pages where you do private grief work or provide health information.
| Type | Purpose | Can you turn it off? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Authentication, session management, security, load balancing | No, the Service cannot function without these |
| Preference | Remembering your settings and choices, stored in your own browser | Yes, by clearing your browser storage |
| Cookieless analytics | Aggregate, de-identified usage measurement that sets no cookies and stores no personal identifiers | It sets no cookies and identifies no one, so there is nothing to opt out of |
Where we hold a firm line: we do not use advertising cookies, ad pixels (including social-media advertising pixels), cross-site or cross-context tracking, data brokers, or ad networks anywhere on the Service, and we do not use your grief or health data for advertising. Our public marketing website measures visits with cookieless, aggregate analytics only.
3. Your choices
- No consent banner, by design. We do not load optional analytics or advertising cookies at all, so there is nothing you need to accept or decline before you browse. If we ever introduce an optional cookie, a consent control will appear and block it until you affirmatively opt in.
- Global Privacy Control (GPC). Because we set no non-essential cookies and do not sell or share personal information for advertising, the protection GPC requests is already our default for every visitor.
- Browser settings. You can block or delete cookies in your browser. Note that blocking strictly necessary cookies may break parts of the Service.
If you clear your browser storage or use a new device, saved preferences such as reading progress may reset.
4. Cookie inventory
Our public website sets no analytics or advertising cookies. The technologies in use today:
| Name | Provider | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lumenus_admin | LumenUs | Strictly necessary | Secures the staff-only administration area; never set for visitors | 7 days |
| Turnstile verification | Cloudflare | Strictly necessary | Confirms a form submission comes from a person, not a bot | Session |
| Browser storage (localStorage) | LumenUs | Preference | Remembers reading progress and tool entries in your own browser; never sent to us as tracking | Until you clear it |
5. Third-party embeds
We audit every third-party embed on our website and in the Service, including any scheduling widget, web fonts, and any embedded video or map, to confirm that it does not set advertising or cross-site tracking technologies. If any embed sets a cookie or similar technology, we disclose it in the inventory above or remove it. This audit is repeated before each publication of a material site change.
6. Do Not Track
Because there is no common industry standard for Do Not Track, we respond to the Global Privacy Control rather than Do Not Track. See Section 3.
7. Changes
We may update this Cookie Policy. Material changes will be noted by updating the date above and, where appropriate, by notice on the website.
8. Contact
LumenUs Platform, Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal operations in California. Privacy: hello@lumenus.life Data protection inquiries: hello@lumenus.life General: hello@lumenus.life