This Cookie Policy explains how Olha Bahaieva ("I," "me," "my") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on https://www.olhabahaieva.com (the "Site"), and the choices available to you. This Policy should be read together with my Privacy Policy.
1. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites function, remember your preferences, and provide analytics. Similar technologies covered by this Policy include local storage, pixels, and tracking scripts embedded by third-party tools.
2. Categories of Cookies Used on This Site
Category
Purpose
Can be disabled?
Strictly necessary
Required for core Site functionality (e.g., security, basic navigation, load balancing).
No — essential to Site operation
Analytics/performance
Measures site usage (pages viewed, session duration, traffic sources) and includes behavioral analytics such as heatmaps and session recordings to understand how visitors navigate the Site. Examples: Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity.
Yes, via cookie banner or browser settings
Functional
Enables embedded third-party features, such as the Calendly scheduling widget.
Partially — disabling may break the embedded feature
Marketing/advertising
Used to track visitors for advertising purposes.
Yes, via cookie banner
Important accuracy note: Before publishing, confirm exactly which of these categories actually apply to your Site (e.g., do you run Google Analytics? Any ad pixels?) and delete rows that don't apply — an inaccurate cookie table is itself a compliance risk under GDPR/ePrivacy, since it must reflect actual practice, not a generic template.
3. Specific Third-Party Cookies
Provider
Purpose
Provider's policy
Microsoft Clarity
Behavioral analytics — heatmaps, scroll tracking, and session recordings to understand how visitors use the Site
HubSpot
Contact form functionality and, if enabled, form-submission/CRM tracking
ConvertKit
Sets its own cookies on the separate page where the freebie/lead magnet is hosted (opens outside this Site)
Pinterest Tag — tracks visits and conversions for advertising/campaign measurement
Meta (Facebook/Instagram)
Meta Pixel — tracks visits and conversions for advertising, retargeting, and campaign measurement
Note on the freebie/lead magnet: when you access the downloadable resource via ConvertKit, you leave this Site and land on a page hosted on ConvertKit's own domain. Cookies set on that page are governed by ConvertKit's privacy policy and cookie practices, not this Policy.
4. Legal Basis for Cookie Use
• Strictly necessary cookies are set on the basis of legitimate interest, as they are essential to Site operation, and generally do not require consent under GDPR/ePrivacy.
• Non-essential cookies (analytics, functional beyond strict necessity, marketing) are set only after obtaining your consent, where required by applicable law (notably for visitors in the EEA, UK, and other jurisdictions with similar consent-based cookie regimes).
• For visitors in jurisdictions without a consent-based regime (e.g., most U.S. states), non-essential cookies may be set by default, subject to applicable opt-out rights described below.
5. Managing Your Preferences
If a cookie consent banner is active on the Site, you can accept, reject, or customize non-essential cookie categories at any time by revisiting your preferences via the banner or a "Cookie Settings" link, typically located in the Site footer.
Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies through their settings. Refer to your browser's help documentation:
• Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge all provide native cookie management tools under their privacy/security settings.
If supported and enabled by your browser or a browser extension, I honor recognized Global Privacy Control signals as an opt-out request for applicable non-essential cookies, to the extent required under applicable law.
Google Analytics: install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.Pinterest: manage ad preferences via Pinterest's Ad Personalization settings, or opt out of interest-based advertising generally through the Digital Advertising Alliance.Meta (Facebook/Instagram): manage ad preferences via Meta's Ad Settings, or opt out through the Digital Advertising Alliance.
Disabling strictly necessary cookies may affect Site functionality. Disabling functional cookies (e.g., for Calendly) may prevent certain embedded features, such as in-page scheduling, from working, in which case you can typically still access the same functionality via a direct link to the third-party service.
6. Do Not Track
Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal. Because no uniform industry standard for interpreting DNT signals currently exists, the Site does not respond differently to DNT signals at this time, separately from GPC as described above.
7. Updates to This Policy
I may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in the cookies or tools used on the Site. Material changes will be reflected in the "Last Updated" date above.
8. Contact
Questions about these Cookie Policy can be directed to me via the contact page on this Site.