The fine print
Cookie policy
Our pages set a single cookie, and only once you have answered the banner. Store and network cookies come later, and only if you click through to a merchant.
The short version
- One cookie, consent, remembers your banner answer for 180 days. It is technical and holds no identifier.
- Nothing else is installed: no analytics, advertising or social media cookies, no fingerprinting.
- Reject and the X in the corner do the same thing. Closing the banner never counts as a yes.
- Affiliate network cookies are set on the network's or the store's domain, and only after you click a link to a merchant.
Cookies set by this site
| Cookie | Domain | Value | Why it exists | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|---|
consent |
dealsmeridian.com | accepted or rejected |
Stores your answer to the banner so we don't ask on every page, and so a refusal sticks | After 180 days |
That is the whole list. consent is strictly necessary: it only records a choice you made, it is sent to no one but our own server and it can't be used to tell one reader from another. Under EU and Italian rules a cookie of this kind needs no consent. We don't use local storage, pixels or browser fingerprinting to recognize visitors either.
The banner, button by button
On your first visit the banner sits at the bottom of the screen. Until you answer, no cookie of any kind is written.
| Button | Result |
|---|---|
| Accept | Writes consent=accepted. For now this changes nothing else: no optional tool is installed (see the next section). |
| Reject | Writes consent=rejected. Every page works exactly as before. |
| X in the top right corner | Same as Reject: writes consent=rejected. Dismissing the banner is never read as agreement. |
| Settings | Opens this page so you can read the details first. Nothing is written until you choose Accept or Reject. |
Accept and Reject sit side by side with the same size and color, and rejecting never locks you out of a page.
What Accept would switch on
The banner asks in advance whether, in the future, we may count in aggregate which guides are read and which store links are clicked. No such tool runs today, so the answer is stored and nothing more. Before we add one, it will be listed on this page with its name, provider, cookies, lifetime and data recipients, the privacy policy will be updated, and the banner will ask everyone again. It would run only in browsers that answered Accept.
Affiliate network and store cookies
Many store links on the site go through the affiliate networks Awin and Admitad, or other programs (see the affiliate disclosure). Their cookies behave differently from ours:
- they are not set while you read Deals Meridian, and no script of theirs runs on our pages;
- they become active only after you click a link to a merchant, when your browser passes through the network's tracking address and lands on the store;
- they are placed on the network's domain (and, once you arrive, on the store's), and serve only to credit a purchase to our site; how long it lasts is set by each store's program;
- store links are marked as affiliate links in each guide, so the click that starts the tracking is a choice you make knowing it will be recorded.
What the networks record and how long they keep it is explained in their own notices: Awin privacy policy and Admitad privacy policy. The store's own cookies are governed by the store's banner.
If you'd rather not be tracked, type the store's address into your browser instead of clicking our link. You pay the same price either way; we simply won't be credited.
Change your choice
This button deletes the answer saved in this browser and shows the banner again, so you can pick a new one.
Every browser and device keeps its own answer. The "Cookie settings" link in the footer of every page brings you back here. The banner stays away for 180 days, unless you clear the cookie or the list above changes.
Managing cookies in your browser
Browsers let you block or delete cookies site by site. If you block ours, the site keeps working; the banner simply comes back every time, since there is nowhere to keep your answer. Guides for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge.
Updates and contact
This policy is in effect from September 28, 2026. If the list of cookies changes, this page changes first and the banner asks again. Questions: info@dealsmeridian.com.