Cookie Policy

At Winter, we believe in being open and straightforward about how we collect and process data about you. This page is designed to inform you about our practices regarding cookies and similar tracking technologies, and to explain how you can manage them.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on or accessed from your web browser or device memory. A cookie typically contains the domain name from which it originated, its expiration lifespan, and a unique identifier.

Cookies help websites recognize your browser, remember your preferences, and maintain secure sessions during your visit.

2. Are There Different Types of Cookies?

First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

• First-Party Cookies: Placed on your device directly by Winter. We use first-party cookies to adapt the website to your preferences, ensure security, and remember session states.
• Third-Party Cookies: Set by our trusted partners and service providers (for example, hosting and analytics providers) to evaluate website traffic and ensure service availability.

Session and Persistent Cookies

• Session Cookies: Temporary cookies that remain active only while your browser is open and are deleted once you close it.
• Persistent Cookies: Cookies that remain on your device for a specified duration so your preferences are remembered on your next visit.

3. What Do We Use Cookies For?

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following categories of purposes:

• Strictly Necessary & Security: These cookies are essential to make our website function safely and reliably. They enable core page navigation, prevent cross-site request forgery, and authenticate session requests.
• Preferences & Functionality: These cookies help remember your language choices, display settings, and website preferences so you enjoy a seamless browsing experience.
• Performance & Analytics: These help us understand how visitors interact with our website (e.g. which pages are visited most often) so we can continuously improve load times, fix broken links, and optimize content.

4. Other Tracking Technologies & SDKs

In our mobile application, standard web cookies are not used in the same manner as a browser. Instead, we use mobile software development kits (SDKs) and secure tokens (such as Firebase Cloud Messaging tokens) strictly to deliver push notifications, route peer-to-peer calls, and detect app crashes.

5. How You Can Control Cookies

You have the choice whether to accept or refuse cookies:

• Browser Controls: Most web browsers let you view, manage, delete, and block cookies through their settings. You can configure your browser to reject all cookies or alert you when a cookie is placed.
• Device Settings: Mobile operating systems allow you to control advertising identifiers and privacy settings directly in your device settings menu.

Please note that if you choose to block strictly necessary cookies, some features of our website may not function as intended.

6. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may modify this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this page periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.

7. How to Contact Us

If you have questions about our use of cookies or tracking technologies, please feel free to reach out: