Cookies Policy

Last updated: September 2025

Nova Community uses cookies and similar technologies on our website to improve your browsing experience, provide essential functionality, analyse traffic and support our services. This policy explains what cookies are, how we use them and your choices.

1. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit our website. They help us remember your preferences, support secure transactions, and measure how you interact with our site.

Cookies can be:

  • Essential: Required for the website to function

  • Functional: Improve your experience, for example by loading fonts or maps

  • Marketing: Used for personalisation, advertising or social media features

You can manage your cookie preferences at any time through our Consent Management Platform.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • To comply with legal obligations

  • To provide secure payment services

  • To optimise website functionality and design

  • To integrate third-party services such as fonts, maps and social plugins

  • To deliver relevant content and marketing

3. Services and Processors We Use

Below is a list of the services that set cookies or use similar technologies on our website:

Usercentrics Consent Management Platform (Essential)

  • Purpose: Consent management and compliance with legal obligations

  • Data collected: Consent ID, opt-in/opt-out data, time of consent, IP address, user agent, referrer URL, banner language and related settings

  • Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. c GDPR

  • Retention: Consent data stored for one year

  • Provider: Usercentrics GmbH, Munich, Germany

  • Privacy policy: Usercentrics Privacy Policy

Adobe Fonts (Functional)

  • Purpose: Providing and optimising fonts

  • Data collected: Fonts provided, browser information, IP address, account ID, download times, ad blocker use

  • Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent)

  • Location: EU and USA

  • Provider: Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd

  • Privacy policy: Adobe Privacy Policy

Facebook Social Plugins (Marketing)

  • Purpose: Integration of Facebook functions, optimisation, marketing

  • Data collected: Facebook user ID, interaction data, browser type, IP address, websites visited, HTTP header, date and time of visit

  • Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent)

  • Location: EU, USA, Singapore

  • Provider: Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd

  • Privacy policy: Facebook Privacy Policy

Google Fonts (Functional)

  • Purpose: Providing fonts and improving service

  • Data collected: IP address, font file requests, referrer URL, CSS requests, browser information

  • Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent)

  • Location: EU, USA, Singapore, Taiwan, Chile

  • Provider: Google Ireland Limited

  • Privacy policy: Google Privacy Policy

Google Maps (Functional)

  • Purpose: Displaying interactive maps

  • Data collected: Date and time of visit, location information, IP address, usage data, search terms

  • Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent)

  • Location: EU, USA, Singapore, Taiwan, Chile

  • Provider: Google LLC

  • Privacy policy: Google Privacy Policy

Stripe (Functional)

  • Purpose: Online payments

  • Data collected: Payment information, payment card data, date of purchase, purchase activity

  • Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. b GDPR (performance of a contract)

  • Location: United States

  • Provider: Stripe, Inc

  • Privacy policy: Stripe Privacy Policy

4. Storage Duration

Cookies may remain on your device for varying lengths of time:

  • Session cookies: deleted when you close your browser

  • Persistent cookies: remain for up to 2 years unless you delete them earlier

5. Managing Cookies

You can manage or withdraw your consent at any time using our cookie banner or through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies, but some essential functions of our website may not work if you do so.

For further information on cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.