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Cookie Policy

COOKIE POLICY

Effective Date: March 6, 2026.
Website: https://www.skjgrading.com.
Operator: SKJ Authentications LLC, a California limited liability company, doing business through Skjgrading.com.

1. Purpose and Scope

SKJ Authentications LLC, referred to in this Cookie Policy as “SKJ,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” uses cookies and similar technologies on https://www.skjgrading.com in connection with website operation, account administration, submission workflows, security, customer support, and related business functions. Present website infrastructure is based on the Wix platform, and Wix states that its platform may use cookies and similar technologies for important operational reasons, including security, fraud prevention, performance, and identification of registered members. 

Purpose of this Cookie Policy is to explain what cookies are, which categories of cookies may be used on the website, why they are used, what choices may be available to visitors, and how cookie-related practices interact with applicable privacy law. European cookie-consent obligations arise principally from Directive 2002/58/EC, commonly referred to as the ePrivacy Directive, while California privacy rights relating to personal information collected through online technologies are addressed through the California Consumer Privacy Act and its implementing regulations.

2. What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files placed on a browser, device, or system when a person visits a website. Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, scripts, local storage objects, session identifiers, software development kits, and comparable tools that store or read information from a device or browser environment. Some cookies exist only for the duration of a browsing session, while others remain on the device for a longer period until they expire or are deleted manually.

Certain cookies are placed directly by the operator of the website. Others may be placed by service providers or platform providers whose tools are integrated into the website. Distinction between first-party and third-party cookies depends on the domain from which the technology is set and the purpose for which it is used.

3. Why We Use Cookies

Cookies and similar technologies may be used for several legitimate and operational purposes.

Strictly-necessary functions: Certain cookies are used to keep the website operational, preserve session integrity, maintain security, route traffic efficiently, detect malicious requests, and allow users to move between pages without loss of session data. Wix explains that some cookies are important for security, anti-fraud controls, and site functionality.

Account and order administration: Where account features, order tracking, submission forms, payment steps, or member-login functions are available, cookies may be used to recognize the session, maintain authentication state, and support continuity across pages.

Performance and diagnostics: Cookies may be used to measure page load, maintain service stability, troubleshoot failures, and help identify technical issues affecting the user experience or internal operations.

Preferences and settings: Some cookies may remember user selections, such as region, language, or consent preferences, where those tools are active.

Analytics and improvement: If SKJ later activates analytics tools, cookies may be used to understand aggregate website traffic, page interaction, navigation paths, and general site performance. Any future use of non-essential analytics cookies would remain subject to applicable disclosure and consent requirements. Wix provides site operators with tools to deploy a consent banner and to allow visitors to accept or decline non-essential cookies.

Marketing and advertising: SKJ does not presently represent in this Cookie Policy that advertising or cross-context behavioral advertising cookies are active. If that changes, the policy and any required consent or opt-out mechanisms would need to be updated accordingly.

4. Categories of Cookies We May Use

Categories below describe the principal types of cookies that may appear on the website.

Strictly-necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to basic site operation and ordinarily cannot be switched off through the site’s consent tool because the website may not function properly without them. Such cookies may support security checks, protection against forgery or malicious activity, session continuity, load balancing, network management, authentication integrity, and fraud prevention. Wix identifies security, anti-fraud, and performance-related reasons as core grounds for cookie use on Wix-hosted sites. 

Functional cookies: Functional cookies may remember settings or choices made by the visitor, including account-related preferences or interface-related selections. Absence of such cookies may reduce convenience, although the website may still operate.

Analytics cookies: Analytics cookies may collect information regarding visits, page views, interaction patterns, browser characteristics, approximate location derived from IP address, and similar usage metrics. If analytics tools are used in the future, they may help us understand site traffic and improve performance. Under European rules, non-essential analytics cookies commonly require consent unless a national-law exemption applies. The ePrivacy Directive is the principal legislative source requiring consent for storing or accessing information on a user’s device, subject to limited exceptions for cookies that are strictly necessary to provide a service requested by the user. (EUR-Lex)

Advertising or targeting cookies: Such cookies track browsing activity over time or across services in order to display tailored advertising or measure advertising effectiveness. SKJ does not presently state that these cookies are active. If advertising or targeting cookies are introduced later, additional notices and rights mechanisms may be required under European and California law.

5. Examples of Wix-Related Cookies

Because the Website uses Wix infrastructure, visitors may encounter cookies associated with Wix-hosted services. Based on Wix’s published documentation, examples of cookies that may appear on Wix sites include the following:

XSRF-TOKEN: Used for fraud detection of calls.
hs: Used as a security cookie.
svSession: Used for security, stability, and core site functions.
SSR-caching: Used for rendering and performance.
TS cookies:* Used for attack detection.
bSession: Used for system-effectiveness measurement.
fedops.logger.sessionId: Used to track session errors and resilience issues.
server-session-bind / client-session-bind: Used for API protection.

Actual cookies present on the Website may vary over time depending on site features, installed applications, login settings, checkout functions, and platform changes implemented by Wix or by SKJ. For that reason, this Policy describes the principal cookies and purposes currently associated with the Wix environment, without representing that the cookie inventory will remain unchanged at all times.

6. Legal Basis and Consent

For visitors located in jurisdictions where consent is required before non-essential cookies are stored or read, SKJ will rely on consent where legally necessary. Under the ePrivacy Directive, storage of information, or access to information already stored, on a user’s device is generally permitted only if the user has been provided with clear and comprehensive information and has given consent, unless the cookie is strictly necessary for carrying out the transmission of a communication or for providing an information-society service explicitly requested by the user.

Strictly-necessary cookies do not usually require opt-in consent under that framework where they are genuinely necessary to deliver the requested service or maintain the communication. Analytics, advertising, and similar non-essential technologies generally require a different analysis and, in many European settings, prior consent.

California law approaches cookies through the broader concept of personal information and the rights that attach to collection, sale, sharing, and use. California’s privacy regulations also make clear that a cookie banner, standing alone, is not an adequate method for submitting a request to opt out of sale or sharing, because cookie controls concern collection technologies and do not necessarily address the legal right itself. 

7. How We Obtain and Manage Consent

At present, SKJ does not state in this Cookie Policy that non-essential analytics or advertising cookies are active on the Website. If non-essential cookies are later introduced in circumstances where prior consent is legally required, the Website will implement an appropriate consent mechanism, which may include a cookie banner or preference center made available through Wix or another consent-management tool.

Where such a consent tool is active, visitors may be able to accept, decline, or manage non-essential cookies by category, depending on the design of the tool then in place. Records of consent choices may themselves be stored through a cookie or similar mechanism so that the visitor’s preferences can be remembered for future visits.

Visitors may also delete cookies through browser controls, although doing so may reset previously saved preferences and may affect session continuity.

8. California Privacy Rights and Cookie-Related Disclosures

Cookies may collect information that qualifies as personal information under California law, including identifiers, internet or network activity information, and in some cases inferences or device-related data when combined with other information. California residents may have rights to know, access, correct, and delete personal information, and may have rights to opt out of sale or sharing if SKJ engages in those practices. The California Attorney General’s consumer guidance describes those core rights, and the CPPA regulations provide detailed compliance rules.

SKJ does not state in this Cookie Policy that it presently sells personal information for money. Nor does SKJ state here that it presently shares personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. If future advertising technology or tracking tools cause those legal categories to apply, SKJ will need to provide the corresponding notice and rights mechanism required by California law.

Because California regulations distinguish cookie controls from legal opt-out rights, visitors should consult the Privacy Policy and any applicable “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” mechanism if those rights become relevant. A cookie banner by itself is not the same thing as a statutory opt-out tool under the California regulations.

9. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device

Cookie duration varies by function.

Session cookies: Session cookies usually expire when the browser is closed or when the browsing session ends. They are commonly used for temporary security checks, navigation continuity, or short-term session management.

Persistent cookies: Persistent cookies remain on the device for a longer period and expire automatically after a defined duration unless deleted earlier. They may be used for remembering settings, maintaining visitor preferences, storing consent choices, or identifying returning users where such functionality is enabled.

Actual retention periods depend on the specific cookie, the purpose for which it is used, and any changes made by Wix, payment vendors, or other service providers integrated into the website.

10. Third-Party Cookies and Integrations

Some cookies may be placed by third-party services integrated into the website, such as payment processors, embedded content providers, fraud-prevention vendors, shipping or customer-support tools, or future analytics services. Where third-party content is embedded or external services are launched through the website, those providers may set their own cookies in accordance with their own privacy and cookie notices.

SKJ does not control every technical detail of third-party cookie deployment. Responsibility for reviewing the privacy terms of those third-party services therefore remains important where a user interacts directly with an external provider.

11. Browser Controls and User Choices

Most internet browsers allow users to review, manage, block, or delete cookies through the browser’s settings menu. Depending on the browser used, you may also be able to block third-party cookies, clear stored website data, require notification before a cookie is placed, or configure broader privacy preferences. Because these controls are provided by the browser developer, SKJ does not control their availability, wording, or functionality.

General guidance for managing cookies in commonly used browsers may be found at the following pages:

Wix also provides general information regarding browser cookie settings and website-cookie functionality at https://support.wix.com/en/article/enabling-cookies-in-your-browser and https://support.wix.com/en/article/cookies-and-your-wix-site.

Blocking or disabling all cookies may impair website performance and may prevent certain features from functioning correctly, including login-related tools, session continuity, account preferences, submission workflows, and checkout or payment-related functions.

Where a cookie banner or consent-management tool is active on the website, users may also be able to manage non-essential cookie preferences through that interface. Deleting cookies after a consent choice has been stored may cause the banner to reappear on a later visit, and previously saved preferences may need to be selected again.

12. Changes to This Cookie Policy

SKJ may amend this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes in law, guidance, website infrastructure, Wix platform functionality, third-party integrations, or actual cookie practices. Updated versions will be posted on the website with a revised effective date.

Because cookie use may evolve as site features change, visitors should review this Cookie Policy periodically, particularly before submitting an order, creating an account, or consenting to new categories of cookies.

 

 

13. Contact Information

Questions regarding this Cookie Policy, cookie preferences, or privacy-related requests may be directed to:

SKJ Authentications LLC
Website: https://www.skjgrading.com
Email: info@skjgrading.com

Cookie-related rights requests that concern personal information should also be read together with the website’s Privacy Policy, because some rights, particularly under California law, are exercised through the broader privacy-rights framework rather than through cookie controls alone.

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