Cookies and Personal Data Protection
This page lists every cookie forbino.com stores in your browser, what each one does and how long it lasts. It also explains which personal data we process and how we handle it. You can change your cookie choice at any time, and the steps are further down.
Who runs the site
forbino.com is run by Josef Kuchař, a sole trader entered in the Trade Register of the Kolín Municipal Office since 9 June 2011. The registered address is 5. května 1125/2, 280 02 Kolín, Czech Republic, company ID (IČO) 87914832, not registered for VAT.
He is therefore the controller of your personal data.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a website saves in your browser. On your next visit the browser sends them back. That’s how the site knows, for example, that you’ve already made a choice on the cookie bar and doesn’t ask again.
Cookies were invented in 1994 by Lou Montulli, a programmer at Netscape. He was solving a fairly ordinary problem: an online shop needed to remember what was in your basket. Anyway, back to the point.
Some cookies are needed for the site to work at all. The rest are for statistics, and we only store those with your consent.
Which cookies we use
We put this overview together by going through the site in a browser with all cookies cleared and checking what had been saved after every step. First without consent, then after clicking Accept.
Necessary cookies
Without these cookies the site wouldn’t work as it should. That’s exactly why we store them even without your consent. None of them contains your name or anything else that could identify you.
| Cookie | What it does | Expires after |
|---|---|---|
| asm_cookie_consent | Remembers which option you chose on the cookie bar. | 1 year |
| pll_language | Keeps the language version of the site you’re reading. | 1 year |
| PHPSESSID | Technical server session. | when you close the browser |
If the asm_cookie_consent cookie were missing, the bar would pop up on every page.
Analytics cookies (Google Analytics 4)
Google Analytics shows us which articles people read and where they arrive from. We use that to decide what to update and what to write about next.
| Cookie | What it does | Expires after |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Tells individual visitors apart using a random number. | 2 years |
| _ga_6XD45ZFX9K | Keeps track of the visit (when it started, which visit it is and the last activity) to measure traffic across the whole site. | 2 years |
| _ga_WZCBZTPMRG | The same, for separate measurement of the site’s European language versions. | 2 years |
These cookies are only stored when you click Accept on the bar. Click Decline and nothing from the table above ends up in your browser. Google then receives only an anonymous signal that the page was displayed, with no identifier of any kind.
Analytics 4 doesn’t store IP addresses. Google keeps detailed data on individual visits for 2 months, and data tied to the visitor’s random number for 14 months from their last activity. Aggregate statistics with no link to a particular visitor stay in the reports for longer.
The data is processed by Google, which may also transfer it to the USA. For such transfers Google is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (the agreement on transferring personal data between the EU and the USA).
Cookies created only after you do something
Some cookies appear only when you take an action on the site yourself.
- After you post a comment, the browser remembers the name you entered for a year (a cookie starting with comment_author_), so you don’t have to type it next time.
- Star rating of a broker: the lets_review_user_rating cookie, for 7 days.
- For other votes in the ratings, the site keeps your choice for 30 days in the lr_updown and lr_block_rating cookies so you can’t vote twice.
- Editors logged in to the admin area also get WordPress login cookies and cookies from the Wordfence security plugin.
Third-party content
On some pages, mainly those on commodities and cryptocurrencies, you’ll find a technical analysis widget from TradingView. It loads straight from TradingView’s servers, so TradingView sees your IP address. TradingView is an American company, so your IP address may end up on servers outside the EU.
The widget stores TradingView’s own statistics cookies in your browser. Our site doesn’t need them.
| Cookie | What it does | Expires after |
|---|---|---|
| _sp_id.* | TradingView statistics, tells visitors apart using a random number. | when you leave the page |
| _sp_ses.* | TradingView statistics on the current visit. | when you leave the page |
| cookiePrivacyPreferenceBannerProduction | Your choice on the TradingView cookie bar. | when you leave the page |
That’s why we embed the widget so that in Chrome, Edge and Opera it runs in temporary storage. There these cookies exist only while the page is open and are deleted once you close it or move on. TradingView can’t use them to recognise you on your next visit or on another site.
Safari blocks cookies from embedded sites on its own. Firefox keeps them separately for forbino.com only, and how long they stay there is up to TradingView. We haven’t measured their lifetime in Firefox.
Everything else is governed by TradingView’s privacy policy.
How to change or withdraw your consent
You can change your choice at any time. Just open the cookie bar again and pick a different option.
One catch, though. The bar only changes what gets stored from that moment on. Analytics cookies already in your browser have to be removed in your browser settings, where you delete the cookies for forbino.com. On your next visit the site will ask you again.
You can also switch cookies off in your browser completely. The site will keep working, the bar will just ask you on every visit.
So if you’d like to read the site without statistics, the simplest option is to click Decline.
If you open the site in a private window, the browser deletes all cookies, your choice included, once the window is closed. That’s why the bar appears again on your next visit.
Which personal data we process
Apart from cookies, personal data only reaches us in a few ways.
| When | Which data | How long we keep it |
|---|---|---|
| A comment under an article | name (optional), IP address, the text of the comment | for as long as the comment is on the site, or until you ask us to delete it |
| The contact form | name, email, the text of the message | the message arrives in our mailbox and we keep it for as long as we need it to deal with your request |
| Every visit to the site | server log: IP address, time, page address, browser type | about 10 days, after which the logs delete themselves |
The contact form won’t send your message unless you fill in your name and email. For a comment the name is optional and we don’t ask for your email.
The Wordfence security plugin also logs IP addresses for requests that look like an attack on the site. It deletes these records after 30 days at the latest.
We process analytics cookies only on the basis of your consent. For necessary cookies, comments, messages from the form and server logs the legal basis is legitimate interest. The site has to work, we need to reply to you and we have to protect it from attacks. We show the TradingView widget for the same reason: the technical analysis belongs to the article it sits in.
We don’t sell data. The only parties that work with it are the hosting provider the site runs on, the provider of our mailbox and Google when measuring traffic. TradingView also sees your IP address through its widget.
We don’t make automated decisions about anyone and we don’t profile anyone.
Your rights
Under the GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulation) you have the right to:
- find out what data we hold about you,
- have it corrected,
- ask for it to be deleted, an old comment for instance,
- restrict its processing or object to it,
- receive your data in a machine-readable form,
- withdraw your consent to analytics cookies at any time.
Send us your request through the contact page. We’ll reply within one month at the latest. If you’re not satisfied with our reply, you can turn to the Czech data protection authority, the Office for Personal Data Protection (Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů), or to the data protection authority in the country where you live.
This policy applies from 6 October 2026.