1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, to remember your preferences, and to provide information to website owners about how visitors interact with their site.
Cookies do not harm your device and cannot be used to identify you personally unless you have provided personal information to the website. They are stored locally on your device and can be read by the website that created them.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies to:
- Ensure the website functions correctly and loads efficiently
- Remember your preferences and settings across sessions
- Understand how visitors use our website so we can improve the experience
- Measure the effectiveness of our content and marketing activity
- Enable third-party integrations such as scheduling tools and live chat
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function. They enable core functionality such as page navigation, form submission, and secure areas of the site. The website cannot function properly without these cookies and they cannot be disabled.
- Session cookies: maintain your session state as you navigate between pages
- Security cookies: help protect against cross-site request forgery and other security threats
- Load balancing cookies: ensure consistent performance across server requests
Analytics Cookies
We use analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with our website. This helps us improve the structure, content, and performance of our pages. The data collected is aggregated and anonymised where possible.
- Google Analytics: tracks page views, session duration, traffic sources, and user behaviour patterns. Data is retained for 14 months. You can opt out at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
- Internal performance tracking: monitors page load times and technical errors to support website reliability
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personalised features. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we use.
- Calendly: if you use our scheduling tool, Calendly sets cookies to manage the booking interface and remember your time zone preferences
- Contact form state: temporary cookies that preserve form data if you navigate away and return
Marketing Cookies
We may use marketing cookies to understand which channels and campaigns bring visitors to our website. These cookies do not display advertising directly but help us measure and optimise our marketing spend. We do not currently use retargeting or third-party advertising cookies.
4. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on our website are set by third-party services that appear on our pages. We do not control these third-party cookies. The following third parties may set cookies when you visit our site:
- Google Analytics (analytics.google.com): website usage analytics
- Calendly (calendly.com): meeting scheduling functionality
- LinkedIn Insight Tag (if enabled): professional audience measurement for marketing attribution
We encourage you to review the privacy and cookie policies of these third parties to understand how they use your data.
5. Cookie Consent
When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner. By clicking "Accept All", you consent to the use of all cookie categories described above. By clicking "Manage Preferences", you can choose which non-essential cookies to accept.
Essential cookies do not require your consent as they are necessary for the website to function. Your consent preferences are stored in a cookie and respected on subsequent visits.
6. How to Control and Delete Cookies
You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
- View what cookies are stored and delete them individually or in bulk
- Block third-party cookies from being set
- Block cookies from specific websites
- Block all cookies from being set
- Delete all cookies when you close your browser
Please note that disabling certain cookies may impact the functionality of our website. Instructions for managing cookies in common browsers can be found at:
- Google Chrome: support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
- Mozilla Firefox: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer
- Safari: support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471
- Microsoft Edge: support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge
7. Cookie Retention Periods
Different cookies are retained for different lengths of time depending on their purpose:
- Session cookies: deleted when you close your browser
- Analytics cookies: retained for up to 14 months
- Consent preference cookies: retained for 12 months, after which you will be asked for consent again
- Functional preference cookies: retained for up to 12 months
8. Do Not Track
Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) feature that signals to websites that you do not want to be tracked. Our website does not currently respond to DNT signals, as there is no universal standard for how they should be interpreted. You can control tracking through the cookie settings described in this policy.
9. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time as we add new features or as laws and best practices evolve. The most recent version will always be available on this page with the date of last update.
10. Contact
If you have questions about our use of cookies or this policy, please contact us at[email protected].