This Cookie Policy explains how [Company legal entity] uses cookies and similar technologies on our website and in the Muster service, and how you can control them. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They allow the site to recognise your device, remember your preferences, keep you signed in, and understand how the site is used.

We use the word cookies in this policy to cover cookies and comparable technologies such as local storage, session storage, software development kits, and tracking pixels.

2. Categories of cookies we use

We group the cookies we use into four categories:

Strictly necessary: required to operate the site and the service, including sign-in, session integrity, request routing, and protection against cross-site request forgery. These cannot be switched off in our systems.
Functional: remember choices you make, such as interface density, theme, and language, so the service behaves consistently between visits.
Analytics: help us understand which pages and features are used, in aggregate, so we can improve performance and usability.
Marketing: measure the effectiveness of campaigns and limit how often you see the same message. These are set only where you have given consent.

3. Cookies we set

The table below is representative. A current and complete inventory is available in the cookie preferences panel.

[muster_session]: strictly necessary, keeps you signed in for the duration of the browser session.
[muster_csrf]: strictly necessary, protects form submissions against cross-site request forgery, expires with the session.
[muster_prefs]: functional, stores interface preferences, expires after [12] months.
[muster_analytics_id]: analytics, assigns a pseudonymous identifier for aggregate usage measurement, expires after [13] months.
[muster_campaign]: marketing, records the campaign that referred you, expires after [90] days, set only with consent.

4. Third-party cookies

Some cookies are set by providers acting on our behalf, including our analytics, payment, and customer support vendors. Those providers process the data under contract with us and are listed at [subprocessor list URL].

Embedded content from other sites, such as videos or maps, may set its own cookies that we do not control. Please review the cookie notices of those providers.

5. Managing your preferences

When you first visit our site, we ask whether you accept cookies that are not strictly necessary. You can change your choice at any time through [cookie settings link], and your preference is stored so we can apply it on future visits.

You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent parts of the service from working, including sign-in.

6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

We honour Global Privacy Control signals where applicable law requires us to treat them as an opt-out of sale or sharing. We do not currently respond to Do Not Track browser signals, because no common standard for interpreting them has been adopted.

7. How long we keep your consent

Where consent is required, we record it together with the version of this policy you saw and ask you again at least every [12] months, and sooner if we introduce a cookie that serves a materially different purpose.

8. Changes to this policy

We update this policy when the cookies we use change. The last updated date at the top of the page shows when it was last revised, and we ask for consent again where a change requires it.

9. Contact us

For questions about our use of cookies, contact [privacy@example.com], or write to [Company legal entity], [Registered address].

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