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Last Updated 4 August 2026
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Introduction

About This Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how SBTEXMEDIA — the freelance document design and digital solutions practice founded and operated by Bayazid Kajol, Founder of SBTEXMEDIA — uses cookies and similar technologies on www.sbtexmedia.com. It sets out what these technologies are, which ones this website actually uses, who sets them, what they are used for, and the controls available to you.

It should be read alongside the Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly what personal information is collected when you use this site or engage SBTEXMEDIA for a project, and the Terms & Conditions, which govern your use of the website.

SBTEXMEDIA is a one-person practice. There is no advertising network operating on this site, no cookies are sold or shared with data brokers, and no attempt is made to build an advertising profile of you. The technologies described below exist so the site functions correctly and so I can see, in aggregate, which pages people find useful.

Plain-English summary. This website uses Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to understand how visitors use the site in aggregate. These set cookies in your browser. Nothing on this site is used to serve you advertising. You can block or delete cookies at any time using your browser settings, as described in the Managing Cookies section below — the site will continue to work.
The Basics

What Cookies Are

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. It typically holds a short identifier and a value, along with the name of the site that set it and an expiry date. When you return to that site, or move between its pages, your browser sends the cookie back — which is how a website can recognise that two page views came from the same browser.

Cookies cannot execute programs, cannot read other files on your device, and cannot carry viruses. They are passive text records. What makes them significant is not what they contain but what they enable: continuity between page views, which can be used for something as ordinary as remembering a preference or as consequential as tracking behaviour across many websites.

Related technologies

Several other mechanisms do similar things and are covered by this policy wherever they are used:

  • Local storage and session storage — browser storage that holds larger amounts of data than a cookie and is not automatically transmitted to the server with each request.
  • Pixels and tracking beacons — tiny transparent images or scripts embedded in a page that register the fact a page was loaded.
  • Software development kits and embedded scripts — third-party code included in a page that may set its own storage, such as an embedded video player or analytics library.
First-party and third-party

A first-party cookie is set by the website you are visiting — in this case sbtexmedia.com. A third-party cookie is set by a different domain whose code is running on the page, such as an analytics provider. The distinction matters because third-party cookies are governed by that provider's own policies as well as this one.

How long they last

Session cookies exist only while your browser is open and are deleted when you close it. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period — anything from hours to a couple of years — unless you delete them sooner. Both types can be removed at any time through your browser settings.

Categories

Types of Cookies

Cookies are usually grouped by the job they do rather than by who sets them. Four categories are described below, followed by detail on each.

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Essential Cookies
Required for the website to load and operate securely. Without these, core functions such as page delivery and basic security protection cannot work reliably.
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Analytics Cookies
Help me understand, in aggregate, which pages are visited, how visitors arrive, and where people leave — so the site can be improved based on evidence rather than guesswork.
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Functional Cookies
Remember choices you make so the site behaves the way you left it — for example a display preference — rather than resetting on every visit.
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Performance Cookies
Relate to how quickly and reliably pages load and render, including measurements collected by analytics tools about loading speed and errors.
Note on advertising cookies. A fourth category exists on many websites — advertising or targeting cookies, used to build profiles and serve personalised ads across the web. This website does not use them. SBTEXMEDIA runs no advertising network, no retargeting pixels and no ad personalisation on sbtexmedia.com.
Category One

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies — sometimes called strictly necessary cookies — are those without which the website cannot be delivered to you securely and correctly. They are not used to gather information about you for any other purpose, and they are not used for analytics or marketing.

What they are used for on this site
  • Security and abuse prevention — protecting the site and the contact form against automated abuse and spam submissions.
  • Load balancing and content delivery — helping the hosting and content delivery infrastructure route your request efficiently and serve pages from a nearby location.
  • Form integrity — allowing a contact or quote request submitted through the form to be processed as a single coherent request.
Can you refuse them?

Because these cookies are necessary for the service you have requested — namely, delivering the web page you asked for — they are generally exempt from consent requirements under most privacy frameworks. You can still block all cookies in your browser, but doing so may cause parts of the site, particularly the contact form, to behave unpredictably or fail to submit.

How long they last

Most essential cookies are session cookies that expire when you close your browser. A small number set by hosting and security infrastructure may persist for a limited period in order to recognise a returning legitimate visitor and avoid repeated checks.

Category Two

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies allow me to understand how this website is actually used. As a one-person practice I have no user research team, so aggregate analytics is the only realistic way to know whether a page is useful, whether people find what they came for, or whether a section is being ignored entirely.

What is used on this site

This website uses Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, both provided by Google. Google Tag Manager is a container that loads and manages measurement tags; Google Analytics is the measurement service itself. These are the principal third-party technologies operating on sbtexmedia.com.

What they collect
  • Pages viewed, the order they were viewed in, and how long was spent on each.
  • How you arrived — for example a search engine, a direct visit, or a link from another website.
  • Approximate geographic location, generally at country or city level, derived from your IP address.
  • Device category, screen size, browser and operating system.
  • Whether particular actions occurred, such as reaching a service page or submitting the contact form.
What they do not do

I do not use analytics data to identify you personally, and I do not attempt to match analytics activity to a named individual. Analytics reporting is reviewed in aggregate. Google processes this data as a service provider under its own terms and privacy policy, which you can review at policies.google.com/privacy.

How long they last

Google Analytics cookies are persistent and typically remain on your device for a period of months rather than days, so that a returning visitor can be distinguished from a new one. Exact durations are set by Google and may change; you can remove them at any time using your browser controls.

Opting out of Google Analytics. In addition to your browser controls, Google provides a browser add-on that prevents Google Analytics from collecting data across all websites you visit. It is available at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Category Three

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies exist to remember choices you have made, so the website behaves consistently rather than resetting every time you load a page. They are about convenience rather than measurement, and the information they hold is generally a simple preference value rather than anything identifying.

Examples of functional use
  • Display preferences — remembering interface choices such as a light or dark appearance setting where one is offered.
  • Dismissed notices — remembering that you have closed a message so it is not shown to you repeatedly.
  • Embedded content behaviour — where a third-party component such as a video player or form is embedded, that provider may store its own preferences, for example a volume or playback setting.
If you block them

Blocking functional cookies does not prevent you from using the site. The practical effect is that preferences will not persist — a display setting may revert to its default each time you visit, and dismissed messages may reappear. No content becomes inaccessible.

Category Four

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies and related measurements concern how well the website runs rather than what you do on it — how quickly pages load, whether resources fail to download, and whether errors occur on particular devices or browsers. In practice this information often arrives through the same analytics tooling described above rather than through separate cookies.

What this covers
  • Page load and rendering times — how long pages take to become usable, broken down by device type and connection.
  • Resource delivery — whether images, fonts, stylesheets and scripts loaded successfully or failed.
  • Error reporting — script errors or failed requests that indicate something is broken for a particular group of visitors.
  • Content delivery efficiency — information used by hosting infrastructure to serve content from the fastest available location.
Why this matters to you

Performance data is what surfaces problems I would otherwise never see. A page that loads acceptably on my connection may be unusable on a slower mobile network in another country — and since the majority of SBTEXMEDIA clients are outside Bangladesh, that scenario is common rather than hypothetical. This measurement is about fixing the site, not about profiling you.

External Providers

Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies are set by other organisations whose services are used on this site. Those cookies are governed by their policies as well as this one.

Where a third party sets a cookie through this website, I do not control the contents of that cookie, how long it lasts, or how the provider processes the resulting data. What I can tell you is which providers are involved and why. The following are the third parties whose technologies operate on sbtexmedia.com:

Google — Analytics and Tag Manager

Used for the aggregate measurement described in the Analytics section above. Google's handling of this data is governed by its own privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

Google Fonts

Typefaces used across this website are delivered from Google's font service. Requesting a font from an external server necessarily discloses your IP address and browser information to that server, even where no cookie is set.

Form processing

The contact and quote request form is processed by a third-party form service, which handles the submission and forwards it to me by email. Information you enter into that form is transmitted to and stored by that provider as part of delivering the service. See the Privacy Policy for how the resulting enquiry data is handled.

External platforms linked from this site

Links to Fiverr, Upwork, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp appear throughout the site. These are ordinary links — following one takes you to a separate website that sets its own cookies and applies its own policies. Nothing on sbtexmedia.com embeds tracking from those platforms, but once you leave this site you are subject to their terms rather than mine. This is covered further in the Disclaimer.

This list may change. If a service is added or removed from the website, this section will be updated and the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page revised. Third-party providers may also change their own cookie behaviour without notifying me.
Your Control

Managing Cookies

You are in control of cookies on your own device, and blocking them will not lock you out of this website.

Every mainstream browser lets you view the cookies stored on your device, delete them individually or all at once, block them from specific sites, block third-party cookies while allowing first-party ones, or refuse them entirely. These controls sit with you rather than with this website, and they apply across every site you visit rather than just this one.

If you block all cookies from sbtexmedia.com, you will still be able to read every page. The likely effects are that display preferences will not persist between visits, and that the contact form may behave unpredictably, since form and security handling can rely on session cookies. If the form fails, you can always reach me directly by email or WhatsApp using the details in the Contact section below.

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Delete Existing Cookies
Clearing browsing data removes cookies already stored, including any set by this site. This is the fastest way to reset everything, though it will also sign you out of other websites you use.
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Block Third-Party Cookies
A middle path available in every major browser: first-party cookies continue to work so sites function normally, while cookies set by other domains — including analytics providers — are refused.
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Block This Site Specifically
Browsers allow per-site exceptions, so you can refuse cookies from sbtexmedia.com while leaving your settings for other websites untouched.
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Use Private Browsing
Private or incognito windows discard cookies and site data when the window is closed, so nothing persists between sessions.
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Opt Out of Google Analytics
Google's opt-out browser add-on prevents Google Analytics from collecting data on every website you visit, not only this one. It is available at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
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Send a Do Not Track Signal
Most browsers can send a Do Not Track request. Be aware that there is no agreed industry standard requiring websites to honour it, so its practical effect varies by provider.
Where to Look

Browser Settings

Cookie controls live in slightly different places depending on the browser you use.

The menu paths below are given as general guidance. Browser interfaces change with updates, so if the wording does not match what you see, searching your browser's own help documentation for "cookies" will take you to the current location.

  • Google Chrome — Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies and Site settings.
  • Mozilla Firefox — Settings, then Privacy & Security, where you can choose Standard, Strict or Custom protection.
  • Safari (macOS) — Safari menu, then Settings, then Privacy, including Prevent cross-site tracking.
  • Safari (iOS and iPadOS) — the device Settings app, then Safari, then the Privacy & Security options.
  • Microsoft Edge — Settings, then Cookies and site permissions.
  • Opera — Settings, then Privacy & security, then Cookies and other site data.
  • Android browsers — usually the browser's own Settings, then Site settings, then Cookies.
A practical caution. Blocking all cookies everywhere makes many websites awkward to use — you will be logged out of services repeatedly and shopping baskets will empty. Blocking third-party cookies while allowing first-party ones is usually the better balance, and it stops cross-site tracking without breaking everyday browsing.
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