Cookie Policy

Ordinary browsing

Fonts and interface assets are served with the website. A compact analytics notice provides an OK button and a Settings link to Analytics preferences on this page, where you can turn analytics off or back on. Google Analytics starts on arrival unless a saved refusal applies. Without interaction, the notice hides after five seconds; that dismissal is not recorded as an explicit choice. Analytics preferences on this Cookie Policy page remain available. Necessary website delivery and security do not depend on analytics.

DigitalOcean hosts the website, and Cloudflare provides content delivery, TLS, tunnel connectivity and security. These providers may process technical requests and security logs even without analytics cookies. Cloudflare may use security cookies when its protection features require them. Cloudflare may also automatically load its performance beacon to measure page-load and connection performance. This is separate from optional Google Analytics and is not controlled by the Google Analytics consent choice. Access through a private corporate network is also subject to that network provider’s arrangements.

Remembering your choice

We store an explicit OK/enabling choice or refusal and its timestamp in localStorage under drl-cookie-choice-v2. OK/enabling expires after 180 days; a refusal remains until you change it or remove the saved preference. Existing refusals are respected. Your choice is specific to this browser and website origin. If storage is unavailable, a choice can only be retained in the current page. Clearing storage removes a saved refusal and restores the default. The separate sessionStorage entry drl-analytics-notice-dismissed-v1 remembers automatic dismissal in this tab, without recording acceptance.

Google Analytics cookies

Unless you have declined analytics, Google Analytics may set first-party _ga and _ga_FE926MH535 cookies to distinguish browsers and maintain session information. Our tag configures a 180-day cookie lifetime without extending that lifetime on each visit. Browser restrictions or deletion may shorten it. Cookie lifetime is different from the retention of data already received by Google.

Analytics can measure page views, scrolls, site searches and other interactions supported by the Google Analytics property. Page URLs, referrers and query parameters may be included. Advertising features and Google signals are disabled. We do not add LinkedIn, Snitcher or advertising pixels to the new website. Cloudflare’s automatic performance measurements are described under Ordinary browsing.

Unless analytics has been declined, sessionStorage key drl-enquiry-journey-v1 also holds a limited recent navigation history in this tab, expiring after four hours. It is attached only when you send an enquiry and is cleared if you decline analytics. When available, the enquiry also includes Google Analytics client and session identifiers to link it with the same browser session. A random request identifier is sent with the successful-enquiry event; contact details are not included in that event. Select Analytics preferences on the Cookie Policy page to change your choice at any time. Declining disables Analytics and clears accessible first-party Analytics cookies. If the refusal can be saved, we reload the page to remove the loaded tag. If storage is blocked, Analytics stays disabled in the current page without reloading. This does not delete records already received by Google. Use the contact details in our Privacy Policy for requests about your information.

Optional YouTube videos

Some articles offer a YouTube video. No YouTube player is loaded until you select Load YouTube video. Loading it connects your browser to Google/YouTube, which receives technical information such as your IP address and may use cookies or similar storage for the player. We use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced embed domain, but this does not mean playback is anonymous or free of all storage.

Your choice applies to that player and is not saved as a site-wide preference. You can select Unload video to remove the player and stop further embedded requests from it. This does not undo data already transmitted or clear storage already set by YouTube; use your browser settings to remove that data. You can instead open the video directly on YouTube. Google’s Privacy Policy applies to its processing.

External links

Email, Google Calendar scheduling and social links open external applications or websites when selected. Those services may use their own cookies under their own policies. Merely displaying those links does not load their embedded widgets on this website.

Managing storage and future changes

You can review and delete cookies and site storage through your browser settings and manage optional analytics through Analytics preferences on the Cookie Policy page. We will update this policy and obtain the relevant choice before adding other optional tracking purposes. Questions can be sent to DataRoot Labs Inc. at info@datarootlabs.com.

Analytics preferences

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