Our Cookie Policy
Last updated: August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Sámara Pacific School uses cookies and similar technologies on samarapacificschool.org and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your device when you visit a website.
They can be used to provide essential website functionality, remember preferences, understand how visitors use a website, manage consent choices, and support third-party services and embedded content.
2. How We Use Cookies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes including:
- Operating and securing the website
- Remembering visitor and cookie consent preferences
- Measuring website traffic and usage
- Understanding how visitors interact with website content
- Displaying third-party content such as Google Maps
- Improving website performance and user experience
3. Necessary Cookies
Some cookies are necessary for the website to function correctly and securely.
These may include cookies used for basic website functionality, security, and remembering your cookie consent preferences.
Necessary cookies cannot generally be disabled through the website’s cookie preference center because they are required for essential website functions.
4. Analytics Cookies
We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to understand how visitors interact with our website.
Depending on your consent preferences, analytics technologies may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Device and browser information
- Approximate geographic location
- Traffic or referral source
- Website interactions
- Date and time of visits
This information helps us evaluate and improve our website.
Where consent is required, analytics cookies and technologies are activated according to your cookie preferences.
5. Google Tag Manager
We use Google Tag Manager to manage certain website tags and measurement technologies.
Google Tag Manager helps us manage the services used on our website. Individual technologies deployed through Google Tag Manager may use cookies or process information according to their own purposes.
Where required, these technologies are controlled according to your cookie consent preferences.
6. Google Maps
Our website uses Google Maps to display the location of Sámara Pacific School.
Google Maps is third-party content provided by Google. When the map is loaded, Google may use cookies or similar technologies and process technical information associated with your visit.
Where required, Google Maps is loaded according to your cookie consent preferences.
7. Cookie Consent Management – CookieYes
We use CookieYes to manage cookie consent on our website.
The CookieYes banner allows you to:
- Accept optional cookies
- Reject optional cookies
- Choose which categories of cookies you wish to allow
- Change or withdraw your preferences later
CookieYes uses a necessary cookie to remember your consent preferences and maintain a record of your cookie choices.
8. Spam Protection
Our website uses Akismet to help protect contact forms from spam and abuse.
Akismet primarily processes information associated with form submissions for spam-detection purposes. Depending on its technical operation, related technologies may process information necessary to distinguish legitimate submissions from spam.
More information about this processing is provided in our Privacy Policy.
9. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie consent banner.
You can use this banner to accept, reject, or customize optional cookie categories.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by reopening the cookie settings available on our website.
You may also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain technologies may affect some website functions or third-party content.
10. Third-Party Technologies
Third-party services used on our website may use cookies or similar technologies according to their own privacy and cookie practices.
These services may include:
- Google Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Maps
- CookieYes
- Akismet
The specific cookies present on the website may change when services are updated, added, or removed.
11. Current Cookie List
The cookies currently used on our website, including their purpose, provider, category, and duration, are displayed through our CookieYes cookie management system.
Because website technologies and third-party services may change over time, this cookie list may be updated following periodic website scans.
12. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when the technologies, cookies, or third-party services used on our website change.
The latest version will be available on this page together with the date of the most recent update.
13. Contact
If you have questions about our use of cookies or similar technologies, please contact:
Sámara Pacific School
Sámara, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Email: info@samarapacificschool.org
Website: samarapacificschool.org