Cookie Policy

Last updated: 2 August 2026

1. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites function correctly, to remember preferences, and to provide information to site owners. Similar technologies include localStorage, sessionStorage, web beacons, and pixel tags, which may serve analogous purposes.

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies and similar technologies KHT Connect uses on khtconnect.online, why we use them, and how you can control them.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Ensure the Site functions correctly and securely for all visitors;
• Remember your cookie consent choice so we do not show the banner on every page;
• Understand how visitors interact with the Site in order to improve content and user experience (analytics, with your consent);
• Maintain basic session functionality during your visit.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

We use the following categories of cookies:

• Strictly Necessary: Essential for the Site to function. These cannot be disabled. They include cookies that manage your session and remember your consent decision.
• Analytics / Performance: Help us understand visitor behaviour — such as which pages are visited most and how long visitors stay. Activated only with your consent.
• Functional: Remember your preferences to improve your experience (e.g. language, display settings). Activated only with your consent.

We do not use advertising, tracking, or social media cookies.

4. Cookie Reference Table

Cookie / Key	Category	Purpose	Storage	Duration
kht_cookie_consent	Necessary	Stores your cookie consent decision (accepted / rejected) and timestamp. Prevents the consent banner from appearing on every page load.	localStorage	Until cleared by user
_ga	Analytics	Google Analytics — distinguishes unique site visitors and session counts. Set only if you accept analytics cookies.	Cookie	2 years
_ga_*	Analytics	Google Analytics — maintains session state and engagement metrics. Set only with consent.	Cookie	2 years
_gid	Analytics	Google Analytics — distinguishes visitors for a single session. Set only with consent.	Cookie	24 hours
Functional preferences	Functional	May store display or language preferences to improve your experience on return visits. Set only with consent.	localStorage	Session / persistent

5. Legal Basis for Cookie Use

Under the Estonian Electronic Communications Act (elektroonilise side seadus) and GDPR, we rely on:

• Strictly necessary cookies: no consent required — these are necessary to deliver the service you requested;
• Analytics and functional cookies: your freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), obtained through the cookie banner shown on your first visit.

6. Your Consent

When you first visit the Site, a cookie consent banner appears at the bottom of the screen. You may:

• Accept all — enables strictly necessary and, with your consent, analytics and functional cookies;
• Reject non-essential — only strictly necessary cookies are used; no analytics or functional cookies are set.

Your choice is stored in your browser's localStorage under the key kht_cookie_consent. This is not itself a tracking cookie — it is a local record of your decision held only in your own browser.

You can withdraw or change your consent at any time by reopening the cookie preferences banner:

Open Cookie Preferences

7. Managing Your Preferences

In addition to using the button above, you can control cookies through your browser settings. Most modern browsers allow you to:

• View and delete cookies stored by websites;
• Block all or specific cookies;
• Set preferences for individual websites;
• Enable Do Not Track signals.

Please note that disabling strictly necessary cookies may affect Site functionality. Below are links to cookie management instructions for common browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Edge
• Apple Safari

To opt out of Google Analytics specifically, you may use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

8. Third-Party Cookies

Where analytics cookies are enabled, we use Google Analytics (operated by Google LLC). Google may set cookies on our behalf. For information on how Google processes data, see Google's Privacy Policy. We do not use third-party advertising, social media, or retargeting cookies.

9. Contact

For any questions about our use of cookies or to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us:

KHT Connect
Varbola tn 3, Tallinn 10914, Estonia
Email: info@khtconnect.online

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Andmekaitse Inspektsioon (AKI), Tatari 39, 10134 Tallinn — aki.ee.