# Cookie Policy

// Last updated: January 2026

## What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They help websites remember your preferences and provide a better user experience.

## How We Use Cookies

NeuroHIVE uses cookies to:

• -Remember your preferences (theme, accent color, language)
• -Understand how visitors interact with our website
• -Improve our website based on usage patterns
• -Ensure our website functions properly

## Cookie Categories

### Necessary Cookies (Always Active)

These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They cannot be disabled.

### Analytics Cookies (Consent Required)

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

We use Google Analytics to analyze website traffic and improve user experience. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about your visit, including:

• -Pages visited and time spent on each page
• -How you arrived at our website (referrer)
• -Your general geographic location (country/city level)
• -Device and browser information

This information is aggregated and anonymized. We do not use Google Analytics to identify individual users.

### Marketing Cookies

We do not currently use marketing or advertising cookies. If this changes in the future, we will update this policy and request your consent.

## Google Consent Mode

We use Google Consent Mode v2 to ensure that Google Analytics respects your cookie preferences:

• -Before consent: No analytics data is collected
• -After accepting: Analytics data is collected with full functionality
• -After rejecting: No analytics data is collected

This technology ensures compliance with GDPR and LGPD requirements by only processing data when you have given explicit consent.

## Managing Your Preferences

### Via Our Website

You can manage your cookie preferences at any time by:

1. -Clicking "Cookie Settings" in the footer of any page
2. -Adjusting the toggles for each cookie category
3. -Saving your preferences

### Via Browser Settings

You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:

• -View cookies stored on your device
• -Block all or certain cookies
• -Delete existing cookies

Please note that blocking necessary cookies may affect website functionality.

Browser cookie settings:

• -Chrome
• -Firefox
• -Safari
• -Edge

## Third-Party Cookies

The only third-party cookies we use are from Google Analytics, as described above. We do not share your data with other third parties for advertising or marketing purposes.

## Data Retention

• -Necessary cookies: Retained for 1 year or until you clear them
• -Analytics data: Retained for 26 months as per Google Analytics default settings

## International Data Transfers

When you consent to analytics cookies, your data may be processed by Google in the United States. Google provides appropriate safeguards through Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission and the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (ANPD).

## Children's Privacy

Our website is not directed to children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

## Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, operational, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this policy.