Cookie Policy
Before any cookie is placed on your device, your browser first requests a page from alverino.site, the website through which Coronation Reef Advisory (Coronation Reef Advisory (Pty) Ltd) provides information about its financial consulting services. It is at this moment — when your browser and our web server first exchange data — that small text files, known as cookies, may be created and stored on your device. This policy explains what happens from that point onward: which cookies are set, why, for how long, and what choices you have.
1. How Cookies Reach Your Device
- You navigate to alverino.site using your browser.
- Our web server responds by delivering the requested page along with instructions to set certain cookies, depending on the consent categories you have accepted.
- Your browser stores these cookies locally and sends them back to our server (or to third-party servers, where applicable) on subsequent requests.
- Where you interact further with the site — for example, by submitting the contact form or subscribing to our email updates — additional cookies or session identifiers may be used to support that functionality.
- Cookies remain on your device until they expire or until you delete them, subject to the retention periods set out below.
2. Consent and Categories
On your first visit to alverino.site, a consent banner allows you to accept or decline non-essential cookies. We distinguish between three categories:
- Necessary cookies — required for the website to function correctly. These do not require consent and cannot be disabled through our consent tool.
- Analytics cookies — used to understand how visitors use the site, so that we can improve its content and performance. These are only set if you consent.
- Marketing cookies — used to measure the effectiveness of any promotional content and, where applicable, to tailor communications. These are only set if you consent.
You may withdraw or amend your consent at any time by adjusting your cookie preferences through the consent tool available on the site, or by changing your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Declining non-essential cookies will not affect your ability to use the contact form or subscribe to our email updates.
3. Necessary Cookies
These cookies support core site functionality — for example, maintaining your cookie consent preferences between visits, enabling secure form submission, and preventing fraudulent use of the contact form. Without these cookies, parts of alverino.site may not function as intended.
4. Analytics Cookies
Where you consent, we use analytics cookies to collect aggregated information about how visitors use alverino.site — such as which pages are viewed, how long visitors stay, and which links are followed. This helps Coronation Reef Advisory understand how our advisory content is received and where improvements are needed. Analytics data is processed in a form that does not, by itself, directly identify you.
5. Marketing Cookies
Where you consent, marketing cookies may be used to measure the reach and effectiveness of any content shared about Coronation Reef Advisory's services, and to avoid showing repetitive or irrelevant communications to subscribers of our email updates. We do not use marketing cookies to build advertising profiles for third-party advertising networks.
6. Cookies and the Contact Form / Email Subscription
When you complete the contact form on alverino.site, a session cookie may be used to preserve the information you have entered while you complete the submission and to protect the form against automated abuse. When you subscribe to our email updates, a cookie may record that your consent to receive such communications was captured, together with the date and method of consent, in order to demonstrate compliance with applicable law.
7. Third-Party Cookies
Certain analytics or marketing cookies may be set by third-party service providers acting on our instructions. These providers process cookie data under their own privacy and cookie policies, and we select providers that offer appropriate safeguards for personal information in line with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
8. Retention Table
| Cookie Category | Purpose | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Necessary | Consent preference storage, form security, session management | Session to 12 months |
| Analytics | Aggregated site usage measurement | Up to 24 months |
| Marketing | Communication effectiveness measurement | Up to 12 months |
| Contact form session cookie | Preserve form entries during submission, prevent abuse | Duration of session |
| Email subscription consent record | Evidence of consent to receive communications | Duration of subscription plus 3 years |
9. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most browsers allow you to view, delete, and block cookies through their settings menu. Please note that blocking necessary cookies may affect the functioning of alverino.site, including your ability to submit the contact form.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for legal or regulatory reasons. The version published on alverino.site is always the current one.
11. Contact
Questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies may be directed to Coronation Reef Advisory (Pty) Ltd (Proprietary Limited (Pty) Ltd), 48 Beatrix Avenue, 1035 Witbank, South Africa, email: [email protected], telephone: +27 13 406 2246. Registration number: 3152365422.