COOKIE POLICY
STOP • WAITING
Last updated: 30 October 2026
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files stored on or accessed from your browser or device when you visit a website.
Similar technologies may include local storage, pixels, tags and other identifiers.
They can be used to operate a website, remember choices, measure usage or support third-party functionality.
How We Use Cookies
STOP • WAITING may use the following categories:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for essential website functionality, security or a service specifically requested by the user. They do not require consent where the applicable legal exemption applies. Examples may include:
- security cookies;
- session management;
- cookie-consent preference storage;
- load balancing;
- technical form functionality.
Functional Cookies
These technologies may remember optional preferences or activate enhanced functionality. Where legally required, they are activated only after consent.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics technologies help us understand how visitors use the website. Where analytics cookies or comparable identifiers require consent, they will not operate until you have consented.
Marketing and Social Media Cookies
These technologies may be used by advertising, social-media or embedded-content providers. They may track activity across websites or create user profiles. Where applicable, they will only be activated after consent.
Cookie Consent
When you first visit the website, you may be shown a consent management interface.
Where non-essential cookies are used, you should be able to:
- accept them;
- reject them;
- select individual purposes or categories.
Non-essential cookies should not be placed merely because a visitor opened the page.
Changing Your Cookie Choices
You may withdraw or change your consent at any time using:
Cookie Settings
The link should remain accessible from the website footer or another permanently available location.
Withdrawing consent should be as easy as giving it.
Analytics Cookie Details
The Google Analytics 4 integration uses the following cookies only after Analytics consent. They are not necessary for using this website.
- _ga — provider: Google Analytics; domain: .stopwaiting.world; purpose: pseudonymous browser distinction; category: Analytics; configured duration: 60 days without automatic renewal.
- _ga_SM1W7NKLY2 — provider: Google Analytics; domain: .stopwaiting.world; purpose: Analytics session state; category: Analytics; configured duration: 60 days without automatic renewal.
Both cookies use the root path /. User- and event-level Analytics data retention is two months; aggregated reports may remain longer. Analytics measures page visits, reading/scroll activity and selected book-link clicks, without advertising features or sending names, email addresses or form contents. Google may process information outside the European Economic Area.
Rejecting Analytics prevents this integration from loading. You may withdraw consent using the Cookie Settings / Consent Preferences control; this stops further collection and removes these Analytics cookies. Other website services may use separate cookies described in their respective notices.
Analytics information updated: 23 October 2026. Google Analytics is active only with your consent.
Third-Party Content
The website may contain content or services supplied by third parties such as:
- YouTube
- SoundCloud
Where these providers set or access cookies that require consent, their content should remain inactive until the relevant consent has been given.
Browser Controls
Most browsers also allow users to delete or block cookies through their browser settings. Blocking technically necessary cookies may affect website functionality.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when our website or technology providers change.