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Last updated: July 30, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how stevemann.biz uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit the website.

This policy should be read together with the website’s Privacy Policy.

In this policy, “Steve Mann,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Steve Mann and the business activities conducted through stevemann.biz.

1. What Cookies Are

A cookie is a small data file stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies may allow a website to:

• Recognize a browser or device

• Maintain website security

• Remember choices and preferences

• Understand how visitors interact with pages

• Improve website performance

• Support forms, scheduling tools, and embedded services

Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser. These are commonly called session cookies.

Other cookies remain until they expire or are deleted. These are commonly called persistent cookies.

Cookies placed directly by stevemann.biz are known as first-party cookies. Cookies placed by an external service integrated into the website are known as third-party cookies. These categories are also used by the FTC and European Commission when explaining how website cookies operate. (Federal Trade Commission)

2. Similar Technologies

We may also use technologies that perform functions similar to cookies, including:

• Local browser storage

• Software-development tools

• Tags

• Pixels

• Scripts

• Embedded content

• Device or browser identifiers

• Server logs

References to “cookies” in this policy include these similar technologies where appropriate.

3. Categories of Cookies We May Use

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies support essential website functions and security.

They may be used to:

• Deliver website pages

• Balance website traffic

• Protect forms against spam or abuse

• Maintain website security

• Remember cookie-consent selections

• Enable requested website features

Because the website may not function properly without them, strictly necessary cookies may be placed without an optional-cookie selection where permitted by law.

Preference and functionality cookies

These cookies may remember choices such as:

• Display preferences

• Form settings

• Language or region

• Previously selected cookie choices

• Other website preferences

Blocking these cookies may cause certain settings to be forgotten between visits.

Analytics and performance cookies

If analytics are enabled, these cookies may help us understand:

• Which pages visitors view

• How visitors arrive at the website

• How long visitors remain on pages

• Which devices and browsers are used

• Whether pages produce errors

• How visitors move through the website

• General website traffic and performance trends

We use this information to evaluate and improve the website.

Where required, analytics cookies will not be activated until you provide consent.

Third-party and embedded-content cookies

Pages may contain content or features supplied by outside providers, such as:

• Scheduling tools

• Videos

• Maps

• Social-media features

• Document viewers

• Contact or anti-spam tools

• Payment or video-conferencing services

These providers may place cookies or collect device and usage information when you interact with their content.

Third-party providers control their own cookies and process information under their own privacy policies. Embedded content can therefore result in cookies being set by an organization other than the website owner. (European Commission)

Advertising cookies

We do not currently use cookies to deliver cross-context behavioral advertising or build advertising profiles based on visitors’ activities across unrelated websites.

We do not sell personal information collected through cookies.

If these practices change, this Cookie Policy and the website’s cookie controls will be updated before the new practices are implemented where legally required.

4. Cookies Used by Service Providers

Cookies may be placed by companies that provide website-related services, including:

• Website hosting

• Content delivery

• Website security

• Form processing

• Spam prevention

• Appointment scheduling

• Analytics

• Video or media hosting

• Social-media integration

The precise cookies, names, providers, purposes, and expiration periods may change when the website or its service providers update their technology.

Where a cookie-management tool is available, the current cookie inventory may be displayed through the Cookie Settings link or panel.

5. Cookie Duration

Cookie duration varies according to purpose.

Session cookies

Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser or shortly afterward.

Persistent cookies

Persistent cookies remain until:

• Their stated expiration date

• You delete them

• The website or provider removes them

• You withdraw consent and the applicable cookie is cleared or disabled

Third-party providers determine the duration of cookies they control.

6. Your Cookie Choices

Where required or provided by the website, the cookie banner may allow you to:

• Accept all cookies

• Reject nonessential cookies

• Accept only necessary cookies

• Choose individual cookie categories

• Change a previous selection

You may revise your selection through the Cookie Settings link displayed on the website.

A privacy-protective configuration is to activate only essential cookies until a visitor chooses whether to permit optional analytics or third-party cookies. European Commission websites, for example, distinguish essential cookies from optional analytics and third-party cookies and allow visitors to accept or refuse the optional categories. (European Commission)

Refusing optional cookies should not prevent access to the website’s principal informational content, although some embedded features may not operate.

7. Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to:

• Review stored cookies

• Delete cookies

• Block some or all cookies

• Block third-party cookies

• Receive a warning before a cookie is stored

• Clear browsing data when the browser closes

The controls and terminology vary by browser.

Blocking cookies may require you to reset preferences during future visits and may prevent certain website functions from operating properly. The FTC notes that browser settings can be used to limit cookies, while the European Commission explains that deleting or blocking cookies may remove saved preferences or affect some website functions. (Federal Trade Commission)

8. Global Privacy Control and Opt-Out Signals

Where applicable law requires it, we recognize valid browser-based universal opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Control.

Because we do not currently sell personal information or use it for targeted advertising, such a signal ordinarily will not change how the website operates.

If we introduce data selling, targeted advertising, or another activity covered by an opt-out right, we will implement the required controls.

Connecticut requires businesses covered by its privacy law to honor qualifying universal opt-out signals beginning January 1, 2025. (CT.gov)

9. Do Not Track

Some browsers transmit a “Do Not Track” signal.

Because there is no single universally applied technical standard governing every Do Not Track signal, the website may not respond to all such signals in the same manner.

We will, however, honor legally binding universal opt-out signals where required and apply the cookie selections you make through the website’s cookie controls.

10. Personal Information Collected Through Cookies

Depending on the technologies in use, cookies and similar technologies may collect:

• Internet Protocol address

• Browser type

• Device type

• Operating system

• Referring page or website

• Pages visited

• Visit date and time

• Approximate geographic region

• Website interactions

• Cookie identifiers

• Consent preferences

• Error and performance information

For more information about how personal information is used, shared, protected, and retained, see the Privacy Policy.

11. International Visitors

Cookie requirements vary by jurisdiction.

For visitors in jurisdictions requiring consent for optional cookies, we seek to obtain the required consent before activating nonessential cookies.

Visitors should be given a meaningful opportunity to accept or refuse optional cookies. Current European Commission guidance warns against designs that make refusing cookies more difficult than accepting them. (European Commission)

12. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when:

• Website technology changes

• Service providers change

• New cookies or similar technologies are introduced

• Existing cookies are removed

• Legal requirements change

The date at the top identifies the latest revision.

13. Contact

Questions about cookies or the website’s privacy practices may be directed to:

Steve Mann
New Milford, Connecticut
Email: smann@stevemann.biz
Website: stevemann.biz

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