Effective date: 31 May 2026
This Cookie Notice explains what cookies are, which cookies are set when you visit LuxembourgMedia.com, why they are set, and how you can control them. LuxembourgMedia.com is operated by PublicVision Inc., a company incorporated in Ontario, Canada. For questions, contact us at privacy@luxembourgmedia.com.
What Is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website places on your device — computer, phone, or tablet — when you visit. Cookies serve many purposes: some are strictly necessary for a site to function, others remember your preferences, and others track behaviour across websites for advertising or analytics purposes.
Not everything that tracks you is a cookie. Some tracking technologies use browser storage, pixels, or fingerprinting. This notice focuses on cookies specifically, but the same control mechanisms described below generally apply to related technologies.
Cookies We Set Ourselves
We do not intentionally set any persistent first-party cookies of our own for analytics, personalisation, or marketing.
However, LuxembourgMedia.com is built on Next.js, a React framework. Next.js may internally set short-lived session or routing cookies as part of its standard page-rendering and navigation mechanics. These are technical in nature, contain no personally identifiable information, and are not used by us to track you across sessions or across other websites. Their presence is incidental to the framework rather than a deliberate data-collection choice on our part.
Because the site has no user accounts, no newsletter sign-up, and no checkout process, there are no login session cookies, preference cookies, or payment-related cookies set by us.
Analytics Cookies
We have evaluated Plausible Analytics as our analytics solution. Plausible is a privacy-respecting tool that operates without setting any cookies — it uses aggregate, cookieless page-view counting rather than individual tracking.
Important: Plausible is not currently active on this site. We have not enabled it, so no analytics cookies or cookieless analytics pings are being fired at this time. When we do activate Plausible, we will update this notice accordingly. Because Plausible does not use cookies, its activation will not change the cookie landscape of this site.
We do not use Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, or any other behavioural analytics platform.
Third-Party Affiliate Tracking Cookies
LuxembourgMedia.com earns revenue through affiliate partnerships. When you click a link to a partner product or service, affiliate networks set cookies on your device to attribute any resulting transaction back to us. This is standard practice in affiliate marketing and is how networks verify that a referral originated from our site.
We are members of the following affiliate networks. Each may set one or more cookies when you click an affiliate link:
Wise Partners (via Partnerize)
- Purpose: Tracks clicks on Wise referral links so that successful sign-ups or transfers are attributed to LuxembourgMedia.com.
- Cookie name(s): Partnerize sets cookies including
PZand click-reference identifiers. - Typical duration: 30 days from the click.
- Data controller: Partnerize Group Ltd. Review their privacy policy at partnerize.com.
Awin
- Purpose: Tracks clicks on links to Awin-network advertisers and records any resulting qualifying actions (such as account openings or purchases).
- Cookie name(s): Awin sets an
awcookie and related attribution identifiers. - Typical duration: 30 days from the click, though this varies by advertiser programme.
- Data controller: Awin AG. Review their privacy policy at awin.com.
Impact (Impact.com)
- Purpose: Tracks referral clicks and conversions for advertisers whose programmes we participate in via the Impact platform.
- Cookie name(s): Impact sets
irclickidand related cookies. - Typical duration: 30 days from the click; some programmes set longer windows.
- Data controller: Impact Tech, Inc. Review their privacy policy at impact.com.
Skimlinks
- Purpose: Skimlinks automatically converts certain qualifying links in our editorial content into affiliate links and tracks resulting clicks and transactions.
- Cookie name(s): Skimlinks sets the
skimwordsand related tracking cookies. - Typical duration: Up to 30 days from the click.
- Data controller: Skimlinks Ltd (a Taboola company). Review their privacy policy at skimlinks.com.
Affiliate cookies are set only when you click an affiliate link. Simply browsing our editorial content or entity profiles does not trigger affiliate cookie placement.
Our Honest Position on Consent
Under GDPR and the Luxembourg Law of 1 August 2018 implementing the ePrivacy Directive, non-essential cookies — including affiliate tracking cookies — should in principle require your prior, informed consent before being set.
We do not yet have a consent banner or cookie-management tool implemented on this site. This means that if you click an affiliate link, a tracking cookie will be set by the relevant network before you have been given a structured opportunity to accept or decline it.
We want to be transparent about this limitation. The current position — that by using the site and clicking affiliate links you are taken to have consented — is not a satisfactory long-term solution under the applicable legal framework, and we acknowledge it. We are actively working to implement a proper consent mechanism, and we will update this notice when that is in place.
In the meantime, the most effective way to prevent affiliate cookies from being set is to use the browser controls described in the next section before clicking any links.
How to Control Cookies
You can manage or block cookies using your browser's built-in settings. The exact steps vary by browser:
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
- Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
- Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies
- Brave: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies
You can choose to block all third-party cookies, which will prevent affiliate networks from setting tracking cookies when you click links on our site. Note that doing so will not affect your ability to read our content — since we set no essential cookies ourselves, cookie blocking will not break site functionality.
You may also opt out directly via the affiliate networks' own mechanisms:
- Awin: awin.com/gb/privacy
- Impact: impact.com/privacy-policy
- Partnerize: partnerize.com/privacy
- Skimlinks: skimlinks.com/privacy-policy
For broader opt-outs covering multiple advertising networks, the Your Online Choices tool (youronlinechoices.eu) and the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out (optout.networkadvertising.org) may also be useful.
Changes to This Notice
We will update this Cookie Notice when we make material changes to the cookies in use — in particular when we activate Plausible Analytics or implement a consent management platform. The effective date at the top of this page will reflect the most recent version.
Further Information
This Cookie Notice should be read alongside our full Privacy Policy, which covers how we collect, use, and protect personal data more broadly, including our legal bases for processing, your rights under GDPR, and how to contact the Luxembourg data protection authority, the Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données (CNPD).
For cookie-specific questions, contact us at privacy@luxembourgmedia.com.