1. Introduction
This Cookies Policy explains how Not5 (“we,” “us,” or “our”), available at https://not5.com, uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.
We are committed to transparency regarding the information collected through these technologies and the choices available to our visitors.
This Cookies Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which provides additional information about how we collect, process, and protect personal data.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.
They allow websites to recognize browsers, remember preferences, maintain user sessions, and improve browsing experiences.
Cookies can be classified as:
- First-party cookies: Set directly by Not5.
- Third-party cookies: Set by external services integrated into our website.
- Session cookies: Temporary cookies that generally expire when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies: Cookies that remain on your device until they expire or are deleted.
Similar technologies, including local storage, pixels, and web beacons, may also be used for related purposes.
3. How We Use Cookies
Not5 may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
- Ensuring website functionality and security.
- Remembering visitor preferences.
- Supporting login sessions and comment features.
- Understanding website traffic and performance.
- Measuring advertising effectiveness.
- Displaying personalized or non-personalized advertisements.
- Preventing fraud, spam, and unauthorized activity.
- Supporting content embedded from external platforms.
The specific cookies used may vary depending on the services enabled, your location, browser settings, and privacy preferences.
4. Categories of Cookies
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies support essential website operations, including security, navigation, login functionality, and consent management.
They generally do not require consent when they are strictly necessary to provide a service you have requested.
Disabling these cookies may affect website functionality.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to remember certain preferences and provide enhanced features.
These may include remembering information entered in comment forms, language preferences, or display settings.
Some functional cookies may require consent depending on their purpose and applicable law.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website.
They may collect information about pages visited, visit duration, referral sources, browser characteristics, and general usage patterns.
Where enabled, analytics services may include Google Analytics or similar providers.
We use this information to assess website performance, identify technical problems, and improve the user experience.
Where legally required, analytics cookies are activated only after consent has been obtained.
Advertising Cookies
Not5 may work with third-party advertising providers, including Google, to display advertisements and support website operations.
Advertising cookies may help providers:
- Deliver relevant advertisements.
- Measure advertising performance.
- Limit the frequency of advertisements.
- Detect invalid traffic and advertising fraud.
- Understand interactions with advertisements.
Depending on your consent and applicable law, advertising may be personalized or non-personalized.
Some advertising technologies, including those used for non-personalized advertisements, may still require consent for storing or accessing information on your device.
5. Google Advertising Cookies
Where Google advertising services are enabled, Google and its partners may use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure advertisements.
Google may use information about your activity on this and other websites to personalize advertising, subject to applicable law and your consent choices.
For additional information, visit:
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
How Google Uses Information from Partner Sites: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Google Advertising Preferences: https://myadcenter.google.com/
You may manage personalized advertising preferences directly through Google’s advertising controls.
6. WordPress Cookies
Not5 operates using WordPress, which may set cookies to support comments, user sessions, and administrative functionality.
Comment Cookies
If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies.
These cookies are intended for convenience and generally expire after one year.
Login Cookies
When accessing the login page, WordPress may set a temporary cookie to check whether your browser accepts cookies.
This cookie contains no personal information and is generally deleted when your browser closes.
If you log in, cookies may be created to remember your authentication information and display preferences.
Login cookies generally last two days. Selecting “Remember Me” may extend the login period to two weeks.
Display preference cookies may remain active for one year.
Editorial Cookies
If an authorized user edits or publishes an article, WordPress may save a cookie containing the article’s post ID.
This cookie does not contain personal information and normally expires after one day.
7. Third-Party Cookies and Embedded Content
Our website may contain embedded content from third-party websites, including videos, social media posts, images, and articles.
These services may set their own cookies and collect information about your interactions with their content.
Third-party providers may also use tracking technologies in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Not5 does not independently control cookies set by external providers.
We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of those services for more information.
8. Cookie Duration
The duration of a cookie depends on its purpose and the service that sets it.
| Cookie category | Typical duration |
|---|---|
| Essential session cookies | Until the browser session ends |
| WordPress comment cookies | Up to 1 year |
| WordPress login cookies | 2 days |
| WordPress “Remember Me” cookies | 2 weeks |
| WordPress display preference cookies | 1 year |
| WordPress editorial cookies | 1 day |
| Analytics cookies | Depends on the provider and configuration |
| Advertising cookies | Depends on the advertising provider |
| Consent preference cookies | Depends on the consent management system |
These periods are indicative. Actual cookie names and expiration periods may vary according to the services and configurations in use.
9. Cookie Consent
Where required by applicable privacy laws, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy rules, Not5 requests consent before placing or accessing non-essential cookies.
Visitors may be offered options to:
- Accept all optional cookies.
- Reject non-essential cookies.
- Customize cookie preferences by category.
Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they are required for essential website functionality.
We do not consider continued browsing alone to constitute valid consent where affirmative consent is legally required.
Your consent choices may be stored to remember your preferences.
You may withdraw or modify your consent at any time through the cookie preference controls made available on our website, where implemented.
10. How to Manage or Disable Cookies
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings.
Most browsers allow you to:
- View stored cookies.
- Delete individual cookies.
- Block cookies from particular websites.
- Block third-party cookies.
- Delete cookies when closing the browser.
For instructions, consult your browser’s official support documentation:
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/
Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge
Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/safari
Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect login sessions, saved preferences, or other website features.
Browser settings do not necessarily replace website-specific consent controls.
11. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, applicable data protection laws may grant you rights relating to your personal information.
These may include the right to:
- Access personal information.
- Request correction or deletion.
- Object to certain processing activities.
- Restrict certain uses of your information.
- Withdraw consent.
- Request data portability where applicable.
- File a complaint with a relevant data protection authority.
For additional information about your rights and how we process personal information, please consult our Privacy Policy.
12. International Data Processing
Some third-party service providers may process information outside your country of residence, including outside the European Economic Area.
Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, appropriate legal mechanisms must be used.
The specific protections depend on the service provider and the destination country.
13. Updates to This Cookies Policy
We may revise this Cookies Policy to reflect changes in website functionality, advertising services, cookie technologies, or applicable regulations.
When changes are made, the updated version will be published on this page with a revised effective date.
We recommend reviewing this policy periodically.
14. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy or how cookies are used on Not5, please contact the website operator using the contact information available on our website.
Website: https://not5.com
For more information about personal data processing, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
Last updated: November 2, 2026
