Cookies Policy

Effective Date: May 28, 2025
Last Updated: July 2, 2026

1. Overview

This Cookies Policy explains how Top10HRVoices.com and its geographic editions and subsites (e.g., cyprus.top10hrvoices.com, greece.top10hrvoices.com, germany.top10hrvoices.com) use cookies and similar technologies. We currently operate an essential-only setup: no analytics, no marketing pixels, no cross-site tracking, and we never sell your data.

The one third-party element we load is a web font (see Section 3d): the Site uses “Space Grotesk” delivered by Google Fonts, which transmits your IP address to Google purely so the font can be displayed. This is for presentation only — it is not a cookie, and it is not used for tracking.

By using the Site, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy.

2. What Are Cookies & Similar Technologies?

“Cookies” are small files stored by your browser. We may also use sessionStorage/localStorage (browser storage) for strictly necessary user-experience preferences, for example to remember that you dismissed our consent banner.

3. What We Use Today (Essential-Only)

We use only technologies required for core functionality, security, and presentation:

a) Consent/UI preference — e.g., a session flag (sessionStorage: cookieConsentGiven) so the banner doesn’t reappear during the same session.
b) Hosting/security basics — standard server logs and protective controls used by our infrastructure to keep the Site reliable and secure.
c) Form/UX reliability (if present) — essential mechanisms that prevent duplicate submissions or broken flows.
d) Web font (Google Fonts) — the Site loads the “Space Grotesk” font from Google Fonts (Google LLC). This does not set a cookie, but delivering the font transmits your IP address to Google, including to servers in the United States, covered by Google’s Standard Contractual Clauses. It is used solely to render the Site’s typography, not for tracking.

We do not deploy analytics (e.g., GA), advertising pixels (e.g., Meta/LinkedIn), or profiling cookies. Contributor names may link to external profiles such as LinkedIn; these are ordinary text links and set no cookies unless and until you choose to follow them.

4. Legal Basis (GDPR / ePrivacy)

Strictly necessary cookies/technologies are permitted without prior opt-in consent. The Google Fonts delivery described above is relied upon on the basis of our legitimate interest in consistent presentation. If in future we introduce non-essential tools (analytics, advertising, personalization, or embedded media that sets cookies), we will implement a fully compliant consent mechanism and load such tools only after explicit opt-in, with reject as easy as accept.

5. Embedded Media (Future — NO BRIEF Podcast)

The NO BRIEF podcast, produced within the wider Top10Voices ecosystem, is in production. When episode players or other embedded media (for example, from YouTube or Spotify) appear on the Site, those third-party embeds may set their own cookies when they load. Before that happens, we will update this Policy and gate such embeds appropriately — for example, using privacy-enhanced or click-to-load players — so that no third-party tracking cookie is set without your action or consent. This section is included in advance for transparency; no such embeds are active today.

6. Managing Preferences

Because we run essential-only, there is nothing to disable for tracking. You can always clear your browser cache/cookies, and you can block third-party font loading through your browser settings if you prefer. If we later add optional categories, we will provide a visible control to accept, reject, or withdraw consent at any time.

7. Processors & International Transfers

We work with vetted service providers under GDPR-compliant terms — currently website hosting (Carrd) and email (Zoho) — and Google LLC for web-font delivery. We endeavor to keep processing in the EEA; where transfers outside the EEA are necessary, appropriate safeguards (e.g., SCCs or adequacy decisions) will apply.
See our Privacy Policy for details.

8. Retention

Essential banner preferences (e.g., sessionStorage) last for your current browser session. Server logs/security records are retained only as long as needed for operations and legal obligations. Editorial archive retention is governed by our Terms & Conditions.

9. Your Rights

For GDPR rights (access, rectification, restriction, portability, and where applicable, consent withdrawal), review our Privacy Policy or contact:
📧 [email protected] (Privacy Queries)
📧 [email protected] (Formal GDPR Requests)

10. Changes

We may update this Cookies Policy. The “Last Updated” date shows the latest revision.
Continued use of the Site constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact

For cookies or privacy questions:
📧 [email protected]
📍 Limassol, Cyprus
🔗 www.top10hrvoices.com

This Cookies Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions;
together they constitute the entire understanding regarding the Site’s operation, your interaction with it, and supersede any prior communications or representations relating to the Site.