Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 29, 2026

At Kosmax, accessible from kosmax.net, protecting the privacy of our visitors is important to us.

This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit Kosmax, how that information may be used, when it may be shared, and the choices and rights available to you.

Kosmax is a general-interest digital publication that may publish articles about food, health, lifestyle, travel, animals, entertainment, educational topics, stories, current interests, and other popular subjects.

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the Kosmax website. It does not apply to information collected offline or through services that we do not operate.

1. Consent

By using Kosmax, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy.

Where consent is required by applicable law, such as for certain advertising, analytics, or non-essential cookies, we will request your consent through a cookie or privacy notice.

You may be able to accept, reject, or manage certain cookie categories through the consent options displayed on the website.

You may also withdraw or change your consent at any time by reopening the website’s privacy or cookie settings, where available.

2. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with Kosmax.

Information You Provide

We may receive information that you voluntarily provide when you:

  • Contact us through a contact form.
  • Send us an email.
  • Submit feedback, corrections, questions, or suggestions.
  • Subscribe to a newsletter, if this feature is offered.
  • Leave a comment, if comments are enabled.
  • Communicate with us through another available method.

This information may include:

  • Your name.
  • Your email address.
  • The content of your message.
  • Any information or attachments you choose to provide.
  • Your communication preferences.

Please do not send sensitive personal information through our contact forms or email unless it is necessary.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit Kosmax, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, analytics providers, advertising partners, security services, or other service providers.

This information may include:

  • Internet Protocol address.
  • Browser type and version.
  • Device type.
  • Operating system.
  • General or approximate location.
  • Referring and exit pages.
  • Pages viewed.
  • Date and time of access.
  • Time spent on pages.
  • Links or advertisements clicked.
  • Cookie identifiers.
  • Device or browser identifiers.
  • Website performance and error data.

This information is generally used to operate, protect, measure, and improve the website.

3. How We Use Information

We may use collected information to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain Kosmax.
  • Display website content correctly.
  • Improve website speed, design, navigation, and usability.
  • Understand how visitors use the website.
  • Measure traffic, readership, and article performance.
  • Respond to messages, questions, and correction requests.
  • Protect the website against spam, fraud, abuse, and security threats.
  • Diagnose technical errors.
  • Develop new content, categories, features, or services.
  • Display and measure advertising.
  • Personalize advertising where the visitor has provided the required consent.
  • Send newsletters or updates when a visitor has requested them.
  • Comply with legal obligations.
  • Enforce our policies and protect our legal rights.

We do not use personal information for purposes that are materially different from those described in this Privacy Policy without providing an appropriate notice.

4. Legal Bases for Processing

Where the General Data Protection Regulation, UK GDPR, or similar laws apply, we may process personal data under one or more of the following legal bases:

  • Consent: When you have given permission for a specific activity, such as non-essential cookies, personalized advertising, analytics, or email subscriptions.
  • Legitimate interests: When processing is reasonably necessary to operate, secure, improve, or understand the website, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights.
  • Legal obligations: When processing is required to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal requests, or court orders.
  • Performance of a requested service: When processing is necessary to respond to a request or provide a service you have asked for.

Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent without affecting the lawfulness of processing that occurred before the withdrawal.

5. Log Files

Kosmax follows standard procedures for using server log files.

Hosting providers and security services may record technical data when visitors access the website. Log information may include IP addresses, browser types, internet service providers, referring pages, exit pages, timestamps, device information, requested pages, and error records.

Log information may be used to:

  • Maintain website security.
  • Detect suspicious activity.
  • Prevent fraud and abuse.
  • Diagnose technical problems.
  • Analyze website trends.
  • Administer and improve the website.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Kosmax and its service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, scripts, and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files stored on your browser or device. They may be used to remember preferences, maintain website functionality, measure performance, prevent fraud, analyze traffic, and support advertising.

Cookies used on Kosmax may include:

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for core website functions, security, consent management, and technical operation.

Preference Cookies

These cookies may remember choices such as language, display preferences, or privacy selections.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand visitor activity, such as pages viewed, traffic sources, engagement, and website performance.

Advertising Cookies

Advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies to display, measure, limit, or personalize advertisements.

Depending on your location and consent choices, advertisements may be personalized or non-personalized.

Non-personalized advertisements may still use limited information for purposes such as fraud prevention, frequency capping, aggregated reporting, and contextual advertising.

You can manage cookies through:

  • The cookie or privacy settings displayed on Kosmax.
  • Your browser settings.
  • Your device settings.
  • Advertising preference tools provided by advertising companies.

Disabling some cookies may affect certain website features.

7. Google Advertising Services

Kosmax may use Google services, including Google AdSense, to display and measure advertisements.

Google and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to:

  • Serve advertisements.
  • Measure advertising performance.
  • Limit how frequently advertisements appear.
  • Detect and prevent fraud or abuse.
  • Understand interactions with advertisements.
  • Display personalized advertisements when legally permitted and consent has been obtained.
  • Display contextual or non-personalized advertisements.

Information processed by Google may include your IP address, browser or device information, cookie identifiers, approximate location, interactions with the website, and advertising activity.

Google may combine information collected from websites and applications that use Google services in accordance with Google’s own privacy policies and advertising settings.

Visitors can learn more through Google’s pages titled:

  • How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services
  • Google Privacy Policy
  • Google Advertising
  • Google Ads Settings

Kosmax does not directly control the information collected or processed independently by Google.

8. Consent for Visitors in Europe

For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and other regions where consent is required, Kosmax may display a consent management message before activating certain advertising or analytics technologies.

Visitors may be asked to choose whether they consent to:

  • Storing or accessing information on their device.
  • Personalized advertising.
  • Advertising measurement.
  • Audience measurement.
  • Analytics technologies.
  • Content or advertising personalization.
  • Other purposes described in the consent notice.

Your choices may be shared with participating advertising and technology providers so they can respect your consent preferences.

9. Analytics

Kosmax may use analytics services, including Google Analytics or similar tools, to understand website traffic and performance.

Analytics providers may process information such as:

  • Pages viewed.
  • Visit duration.
  • Referring websites.
  • Approximate geographic region.
  • Browser and device type.
  • Website interactions.
  • Technical performance information.

Where required, analytics cookies will not be activated until the visitor provides consent.

Analytics information is used to understand general usage patterns and improve the website. We do not use analytics tools with the intention of directly identifying individual visitors.

10. AI-Assisted Editorial Tools

Kosmax may use artificial intelligence and automated tools to assist with parts of the editorial process.

These tools may help with activities such as:

  • Research organization.
  • Topic discovery.
  • Drafting.
  • Rewriting.
  • Translation.
  • Grammar correction.
  • Summarization.
  • Headline suggestions.
  • Content formatting.
  • Image or media assistance.

AI-assisted tools are used to support content creation and do not change the privacy practices described in this Policy.

We do not intentionally provide private contact messages, email addresses, or other visitor-identifying information to public artificial intelligence tools for the purpose of creating articles.

Content produced with automated assistance may be edited, reviewed, corrected, expanded, or updated before or after publication.

Visitors should not submit confidential, medical, financial, legal, or other sensitive personal information for use with any automated feature unless the website clearly explains how that information will be processed.

11. Advertising Partners

Our advertising partners and technology providers may use cookies, scripts, pixels, or web beacons in advertisements and links displayed on Kosmax.

These technologies may automatically transmit certain information to the provider, including an IP address, browser information, device information, cookie identifiers, general location, and advertising interactions.

Advertising providers may use this information to:

  • Measure campaign effectiveness.
  • Display relevant advertisements.
  • Prevent fraudulent activity.
  • Limit advertisement frequency.
  • Produce aggregated advertising reports.
  • Personalize advertisements where permitted.

Each advertising provider processes information according to its own privacy policy.

Kosmax does not control cookies or tracking technologies that are independently operated by third-party advertising providers.

12. Third-Party Services and Links

Kosmax articles may contain links to external websites, social networks, video platforms, embedded media, products, services, sources, or other third-party content.

When you visit or interact with a third-party website or embedded service, that third party may collect information according to its own privacy policy.

Kosmax is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, accuracy, content, or availability of websites and services operated by third parties.

We encourage visitors to review the privacy policy of every third-party service they use.

13. Social Media and Embedded Content

Articles may include embedded content such as:

  • Videos.
  • Images.
  • Social media posts.
  • Maps.
  • Audio players.
  • Interactive tools.
  • External widgets.

Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly. The provider may collect data, use cookies, or track your interaction with the embedded content.

Where required by law, certain embedded content may remain blocked until you provide consent.

14. How We Share Information

We may share limited information with:

  • Website hosting providers.
  • Content delivery and performance providers.
  • Security and anti-spam services.
  • Analytics providers.
  • Advertising partners.
  • Email or contact-form providers.
  • Technical support providers.
  • Professional advisers.
  • Government authorities when legally required.

We may also disclose information:

  • To comply with applicable law or valid legal processes.
  • To investigate fraud, abuse, or security incidents.
  • To protect the rights, safety, or property of Kosmax, our visitors, or others.
  • In connection with a merger, transfer, sale, or reorganization of the website or its assets.

Service providers are expected to use information only for the services they provide or as permitted by applicable law.

15. Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

Kosmax does not sell personal information in exchange for money.

However, certain advertising or analytics activities may be legally considered “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or “cross-context behavioral advertising” under some United States privacy laws.

Where required by applicable law, eligible visitors may opt out of these activities using:

  • Our privacy or cookie settings.
  • A “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” option, where displayed.
  • A legally recognized browser signal, such as Global Privacy Control.

Your available options may depend on your location and the services active on the website.

16. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy.

Retention periods may depend on:

  • The type of information.
  • The reason it was collected.
  • Security requirements.
  • Legal obligations.
  • Dispute resolution needs.
  • The settings and retention policies of our service providers.

Contact messages may be retained for the time necessary to respond, maintain business records, prevent abuse, or meet legal obligations.

Technical logs may be retained for security, troubleshooting, analytics, and fraud-prevention purposes before being deleted or anonymized.

17. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, or alteration.

These measures may include:

  • Secure website connections.
  • Access controls.
  • Software and security updates.
  • Spam protection.
  • Hosting security.
  • Traffic monitoring.
  • Backup and recovery procedures.

However, no website, internet transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

18. International Data Transfers

Kosmax may use service providers located in different countries.

As a result, information may be processed or stored outside the country in which you live. Data protection laws in those countries may differ from the laws in your location.

Where required, service providers may use recognized legal safeguards for international data transfers.

19. GDPR and European Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • Request deletion of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing.
  • Object to certain processing.
  • Withdraw consent.
  • Request data portability.
  • Submit a complaint to an appropriate data protection authority.

These rights may be subject to legal limitations and exceptions.

To submit a privacy request, contact us through the Kosmax Contact page. We may need to request reasonable information to verify your identity before completing a request.

We will respond within the period required by applicable law.

20. United States Privacy Rights

Residents of California and certain other United States states may have additional rights under applicable privacy laws.

Depending on the law and whether it applies to Kosmax, these rights may include:

  • The right to know what personal information is collected.
  • The right to access certain personal information.
  • The right to request deletion.
  • The right to correct inaccurate information.
  • The right to opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted advertising.
  • The right to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information.
  • The right to data portability.
  • The right not to be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights.

Kosmax does not knowingly collect sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about visitors.

We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.

You may submit a request through our Contact page. Rights and response periods vary depending on the law that applies.

21. Global Privacy Control

Some browsers and extensions allow users to send a Global Privacy Control signal.

Where Kosmax is legally required to recognize such a signal, we will treat a valid Global Privacy Control signal as a request to opt out of applicable sales or sharing for the browser or device sending the signal.

22. Children’s Privacy

Kosmax is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically to children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly request or collect personal information from children under 13.

If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that a child has submitted personal information to Kosmax, please contact us. We will take reasonable steps to investigate and remove the information where appropriate.

Children should not submit personal information through contact forms, comments, newsletters, or other website features without the permission and supervision of a parent or guardian.

23. Email Communications

If you voluntarily subscribe to email updates, we may use your email address to send the content you requested.

You may unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link included in an email or by contacting us.

We do not send marketing email to visitors who have not subscribed or otherwise requested such communication.

24. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to:

  • The website.
  • Our services.
  • Advertising or analytics providers.
  • Technology.
  • Legal requirements.
  • Our data-processing practices.

When we make changes, we will publish the updated Policy on this page and revise the “Last Updated” date.

Material changes may also be communicated through an additional website notice where appropriate.

We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.

25. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, correction requests, or privacy requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us through the Contact page on Kosmax.

When submitting a privacy request, please provide enough information for us to understand and respond to the request. Do not include unnecessary sensitive personal information.

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