Cookie Policy

Overview

Spiritual Maturity does not use advertising cookies, marketing pixels, or third-party analytics tools such as Google Analytics or Hotjar.

Functional cookies

The website uses functional cookies for Laravel sessions, security, admin login, CSRF protection, requested language/session behavior, and storing your cookie choice. These cookies are needed for the site to work properly and are not used for advertising tracking.

First-party analytics cookie

With your consent, the website uses a low-impact first-party analytics cookie named sm_visitor to recognize repeat visitors on public pages and to understand which audio teachings are actually listened to. This cookie is used only on Spiritual Maturity, is not shared with advertisers, and is not used for cross-site tracking.

If you reject analytics or have not made a choice yet, sm_visitor is not set and new public page views, audio listening events, reactions, and share-click analytics are not stored in the analytics tables.

Cookie choice

The cookie banner gives equal choices to accept or reject analytics. Your choice is stored in a first-party cookie named sm_cookie_consent. You can reopen the banner from the Cookie settings link in the footer. If you reject analytics, the site also asks the browser to delete the analytics visitor cookie.

Browser storage

The audio player stores playback preferences in your browser. Volume and playback speed may be stored in localStorage. The current playlist and playback position may be stored in sessionStorage so audio can continue across page navigation.

Third-party requests

Fonts, styles, and scripts are served from the Spiritual Maturity domain. Public pages do not load fonts or scripts from third-party content delivery networks, so normal browsing does not send your IP address or browser details to outside asset providers.

Telegram, WhatsApp/Twilio, and Brevo process data only when you choose to use those subscription channels. Social share buttons are ordinary outbound links; they do not load third-party widgets or install third-party cookies while you browse Spiritual Maturity.

Consent

Functional cookies are used to keep the site usable. First-party analytics are used only after you accept analytics in the cookie banner. If we add advertising, third-party analytics, or other higher-impact tracking technologies later, we will update this policy and request consent where required.

Managing storage

You can clear cookies, localStorage, and sessionStorage in your browser settings. If you clear them, some preferences such as language, playback speed, audio position, cookie choice, and repeat-visitor analytics may reset.

Anonymous visit counts (no cookie)

Separately from the analytics cookie, we keep anonymous aggregate visit counts that identify no one. These counts use no cookie, store no IP address, and store no per-visitor identifier — only a running total per day, page, country, and language. Because they cannot be linked to you, they are kept whether or not you accept analytics, and they need no cookie consent.

Changes

Last updated: May 31, 2026.