Cookie & Tracking Technologies Policy

Effective Date: October 1, 2026
Last Updated: October 4, 2026
Data Controller: SA (SA Multimedia Consultancy)
Founder & Creative Principal: Selom Afatsiawo
Primary Digital Presence: selom.me
Direct Contact: info@selom.me | +233 (0) 244 676 101
Jurisdiction: Accra, Republic of Ghana

1. Our Privacy-First Engineering Philosophy

At SA Multimedia Consultancy (“SA”, “the Studio”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), we approach web architecture with the same discipline that guides our brand identity and cinematography: minimalism, purpose, and absolute clarity.

We reject the modern trend of weaponized web surveillance. We believe visitors should explore our portfolio, case studies, and engineering insights without being stalked by third-party ad brokers, algorithmic remarketing pixels, or invasive tracking scripts across the internet.

This Cookie Policy provides a transparent, technically precise disclosure of how selom.me uses cookies, local browser storage, and privacy-first analytics, in compliance with:

• The Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843) of Ghana.
• The European Union ePrivacy Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC as amended) and The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR).

2. What Are Cookies and Local Storage?

• HTTP Cookies: Small text files placed on your computer or mobile device by a web server when you access a digital domain. Cookies allow web applications to remember your actions or preferences over time.
• Local Storage / Session Storage: Modern web storage technologies (localStorage and sessionStorage) that permit client-side web applications to store basic user interface configurations locally within your browser engine without sending that information back to server logs on every HTTP request.

3. Our Cookie Architecture: Zero-Intrusion Standard

We do not use invasive tracking cookies. We categorize our storage mechanisms into two strictly bounded tiers:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                           STORAGE & COOKIE PROFILE                          │
├──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┤
│ Tier / Classification    │ Active on selom.me?  │ Technical Role            │
├──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│ 1. Strictly Necessary    │ YES                  │ Security tokens, UI theme │
│    & Functional Storage  │                      │ persistence, cache state  │
├──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│ 2. Privacy-First         │ YES (Cookieless)     │ Aggregate page counters,  │
│    Telemetry & Analytics │                      │ bandwidth & latency check │
├──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
│ 3. Behavioral Tracking   │ NO (Strictly Banned) │ Cross-site ad profiling,  │
│    & Third-Party Pixels  │                      │ retargeting pixels        │
└──────────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘

3.1 Strictly Necessary & Functional Storage (First-Party)

These lightweight items are essential for technical performance, interface stability, and user experience. They do not store personal identities, email addresses, or browsing history outside of selom.me:

3.2 Privacy-Preserving Aggregate Analytics (Cookieless)

We need to know which case studies, films, and engineering articles resonate with our audience and measure edge network latency. However, we do this without compromising visitor anonymity:

• No Persistent Client Identifiers: We use cookieless or privacy-hardened, server-side telemetry (such as self-hosted metrics, Cloudflare Web Analytics, or Plausible-equivalent telemetry).
• No IP Fingerprinting: Incoming IP addresses are immediately stripped of their last octet or cryptographically salted into a non-reversible daily hash that cannot be linked back to an individual person, physical address, or device.
• No Cross-Site Profiling: Your visit to selom.me is never correlated with your activity on social media networks, search engines, or other third-party websites.

3.3 Third-Party Ad Pixels (Strictly Prohibited on selom.me)

For absolute clarity, our website does NOT contain:

• ❌ Meta (Facebook / Instagram) Pixel
• ❌ Google Ads Remarketing Tag
• ❌ TikTok, LinkedIn, or Twitter/X Conversion Trackers
• ❌ Third-party data broker beacons or real-time bidding trackers
• ❌ Invasive canvas fingerprinting or mouse movement surveillance heatmaps

4. Embedded Media & External Content

To showcase our cinematography, documentary directing, and broadcast productions at maximum fidelity, certain pages may feature embedded video players (such as Vimeo or YouTube) or portfolio showcases (such as Behance or ArtStation).

• Privacy-Enhanced Player Configurations: Wherever we embed external video players, we enforce privacy-preserving query parameters by default (e.g., YouTube youtube-nocookie.com mode or Vimeo dnt=1 Do-Not-Track parameters) to prevent external platforms from establishing tracking cookies before you choose to interact with the media.
• User Discretion: If you click on an external link or directly engage with embedded third-party media players, those external platforms may initiate their own cookies subject to their independent privacy policies.

5. User Control & Browser Preference Management

Because we do not deploy non-essential tracking cookies or behavioral advertising scripts, visiting selom.me does not expose you to third-party commercial profiling. Nevertheless, you maintain complete sovereign control over how your browser handles cookies and storage tokens.

5.1 Browser Cookie & Storage Controls

You can configure your browser to block, filter, or delete cookies and site storage at any time. Consult the official support resources for your respective web client:

• Apple Safari: Manage cookies and website data in Safari
• Google Chrome: Clear, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox: Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox
• Microsoft Edge: Manage cookies and tracking prevention in Microsoft Edge

Note: Clearing your browser’s localStorage will reset your theme preference back to the default Mineral Basalt aesthetic.

5.2 Global Privacy Control (GPC) & Do Not Track (DNT)

We actively honor browser-level privacy signals:

• Global Privacy Control (GPC): If your browser broadcasts an active GPC header, our edge infrastructure automatically acknowledges this preference.
• Do Not Track (DNT): We respect the DNT signal. Even aggregate privacy-first telemetry is suppressed when a client sends DNT: 1.

6. Regulatory Alignment (Ghana Act 843 & EU GDPR)

Under Section 21 and Section 22 of the Ghana Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843), data controllers are obligated to process data transparently and notify data subjects of technical data collection mechanisms.

Under the EU ePrivacy Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC) and GDPR Article 6:

• Strictly necessary technical cookies do not require prior consent because they are indispensable to delivering the digital service explicitly requested by the user.
• Because selom.me operates on a zero-tracking framework without non-essential third-party advertising cookies, visitors are spared intrusive consent popups and tracking walls.

7. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to document technical adjustments to our web architecture, hosting infrastructure, or regulatory guidelines. Any modifications will be posted directly to this page with an updated revision date.

8. Inquiries & Contact Details

If you have questions regarding our privacy-first engineering architecture or our use of functional storage:

• Entity: SA (SA Multimedia Consultancy)
• Principal Consultant: Selom Afatsiawo
• Direct Email: info@selom.me
• Phone / WhatsApp: +233 (0) 244 676 101
• Studio Base: Accra, Ghana
• Primary Domain: selom.me