What cookies are ✦ Which ones this site uses ✦ Who sets them ✦ How to control them
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Privacy laws differ by jurisdiction. Broadly, strictly necessary cookies may be set without consent because they are required to deliver the service you asked for, while analytics and similar non-essential cookies are treated differently — in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom in particular, the expectation is that consent is obtained before non-essential cookies are set.
Current position of this website. At the date shown at the top of this page, sbtexmedia.com does not display a cookie consent banner, and the analytics technologies described above load when a page is opened. Your continued use of the site therefore proceeds on the basis described in this policy, and the controls set out in the Managing Cookies and Browser Settings sections are the means available to you to refuse them.
This is stated plainly rather than glossed over, because a policy that describes a consent mechanism which does not exist would be misleading. If a consent banner is introduced, this section and the "Last Updated" date will be revised to describe how it works, including how to withdraw consent after giving it.
You can stop analytics collection at any time and without contacting me, by blocking cookies for this site, blocking third-party cookies generally, or installing the Google Analytics opt-out add-on. If you would prefer to raise a concern directly, or to ask what information is held about an enquiry you have sent, please use the contact details below or see the Privacy Policy, which sets out the rights available to you.
This Cookie Policy may be updated when the technologies used on the site change or when legal requirements evolve. The current version is always the one published here, and the date at the top of the page indicates when it last changed. Material changes will be reflected in that date rather than made silently.
Cookies aside — if you have a document, form or design project that needs doing properly, tell me what you need. You'll get a clear scope and a fixed quote, usually within a few hours and with no obligation attached.
"Let's turn your vision into something exceptional — together."
I respond within a few hours — about this policy or about a project.