Cookie Policy

1. Overview

EcoWaterlessToilets.com uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the Website, remember choices, protect security, understand how people use our pages, measure enquiries and campaigns, and support embedded services such as video, maps or social-media features.

Some technologies are necessary for the Website to function. Others are optional and, where applicable law requires it, will be used only after you have made a choice through a cookie banner or settings tool.

2. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files stored on or accessed from your computer, mobile telephone, tablet or other device when you visit a website. They can allow a website to recognise a browser, remember a preference, maintain a session, measure traffic or support other functions.

Cookies may be set by EcoWaterlessToilets.com itself (“first-party cookies”) or by another service whose technology appears on the Website (“third-party cookies”).

A cookie may last only while your browser is open (“session cookie”) or remain until its stated expiry date or until you delete it (“persistent cookie”).

3. Similar technologies

This Policy also applies, where relevant, to technologies that perform similar functions, including:

• Pixels, tags and web beacons.
• Local storage and session storage.
• Software development kits and embedded scripts.
• Device, browser or advertising identifiers.
• Server logs and conversion-tracking technologies.
• Technologies used by embedded video, map or social-media services.

Some of these technologies may collect or generate information about your device, browser, IP address, approximate location, Website activity, referral source, campaign and interactions.

4. Why we use cookies and similar technologies

We may use these technologies to:

• Load pages and deliver essential Website functions.
• Maintain security and help detect abuse or fraud.
• Remember language, region, display or consent choices.
• Understand Website traffic and visitor journeys.
• Identify broken pages, errors and performance problems.
• Measure downloads, enquiries, registrations and other conversions.
• Understand which content, products and resources are useful.
• Assess the performance of advertising and outreach campaigns.
• Support embedded video, maps, forms and other external services.
• Improve navigation, accessibility and user experience.

5. Cookie categories

The technologies used on the Website may fall into the following categories. The exact technologies may change as the Website develops or service providers change.

6. Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies and technologies help provide functions that a visitor has requested or that are required for the Website to operate securely.

They may be used to:

• Deliver Website pages and balance network traffic.
• Protect forms and systems from misuse.
• Remember whether you accepted or rejected optional cookies.
• Maintain a secure session during a transaction or form submission.
• Support accessibility and essential interface functions.

Disabling these technologies through your browser may cause parts of the Website to stop working correctly.

7. Preference and functionality cookies

Preference cookies can remember choices that improve convenience or presentation, such as language, region, display settings, video preferences or form values.

Where a preference function is not strictly necessary, it will be handled in accordance with applicable consent requirements. If you reject these cookies, the Website should remain usable, but some personalised functions may not be remembered.

8. Analytics and performance cookies

Analytics technologies help us understand how the Website is found and used. They may record information such as:

• Pages viewed and the order in which they were viewed.
• Time spent, links selected and resources downloaded.
• Approximate location, device, browser and operating system.
• Referring website, search source and campaign parameters.
• Form starts, completed enquiries and other conversion events.
• Errors, page speed and technical-performance information.

We may use Google Analytics or comparable analytics services. The precise service configuration may change. Where required, analytics technologies will not be activated until you have consented.

We aim to use analytics information to improve content, navigation, security and Website performance rather than to make decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects about an individual.

9. Marketing and advertising technologies

We may use advertising or campaign-measurement technologies to understand whether a visitor arrived through an advertisement, email, partner link, social-media post or other campaign and whether that visit resulted in an enquiry, registration or purchase.

Services may include Google Ads, Meta technologies or comparable platforms. Depending on the service and the choices you make, those providers may use identifiers or Website activity to measure advertising, limit repeated advertising, create reports or support audience and remarketing features.

Non-essential marketing technologies will be used only in accordance with applicable consent requirements. Rejecting them should not prevent access to the general Website.

10. Third-party services and embedded content

The Website may contain services or embedded content provided by third parties, including:

• YouTube or other video platforms.
• Google Maps or other mapping services.
• Payment gateways and financial-service providers.
• Email, event-registration and form services.
• Social-media sharing or embedded-post features.
• Analytics, security, hosting and advertising providers.

A third party may set or read its own cookies when its content loads or when you interact with it. Its own privacy policy and cookie practices apply independently.

Where practical and legally required, optional embedded content may be blocked until you consent to the relevant category.

11. Consent and your choices

Where applicable law requires prior consent, the Website should present a cookie banner or settings tool allowing you to:

• Accept optional cookies.
• Reject optional cookies.
• Choose between available categories.
• Change or withdraw your choices later.

Consent should be freely given, specific, informed and based on a clear positive choice. Merely continuing to browse should not be treated as consent where an unambiguous affirmative action is legally required.

Your consent choice may itself be stored in a necessary cookie so that the Website can remember and respect it.

A link or button labelled “Cookie Settings”, “Privacy Settings” or similar should be made available on the Website once the consent tool is installed.

12. Browser and device controls

Most browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies. You may also be able to prevent third-party cookies, clear local storage or configure privacy protections.

Browser controls vary. Blocking all cookies may affect forms, media, preferences, security or other functions. Deleting cookies may also remove your saved Website preferences, including your consent choice.

Settings applied through your browser operate separately from the Website's own consent tool. Where technically and legally applicable, we will aim to respect recognised browser or device privacy signals.

13. Cookie duration and information retention

Cookies may remain for different periods depending on their purpose:

• Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser.
• Consent cookies may remain long enough to remember your choice and avoid repeatedly showing the same banner.
• Preference, analytics and marketing cookies may have their own expiry periods determined by configuration or provider.

Information generated through cookies may be retained for a different period from the cookie itself. Retention depends on operational need, provider settings, legal obligations and the purposes described in our Privacy Policy.

Once the Website's final consent-management and analytics configuration is confirmed, a detailed cookie list may be generated automatically by the consent tool or added to this page.

14. Do Not Track and privacy signals

Some browsers send “Do Not Track” or other privacy-preference signals. There is not yet one universally implemented standard governing every such signal.

Where a recognised signal is legally binding or supported by our technology, we will take reasonable steps to honour it. Otherwise, your selections in the Website's cookie settings and your browser controls remain the primary ways to manage optional technologies.

15. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Policy when the Website, service providers, technologies, legal requirements or business operations change. The current version will be published on this page with the latest update date.

Material changes to optional cookie practices may also be reflected in the cookie banner or settings tool and may require a renewed choice.

16. Operator and privacy contact details