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What this site stores on your device, why it stores it, and how to change your choices at any time.

Last reviewed August 26, 2026

About this policy

This policy explains how Cognatum uses cookies on this site.

Read it beside our privacy policy, which covers personal information more broadly.

What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file stored on your device when you visit a site. Cookies let a site recognise your device on a later visit, keep your settings, and see how the site is used.

We also use methods that work in similar ways, such as local storage and session storage. Where this policy says cookies, it covers those as well.

Cookies set by this site are first party. Cookies set by a company whose service we use are third party.

The categories we use

We group cookies into three categories. You can accept or decline each non-essential category through our cookie banner.

Essential

Needed for the site to work and to record what you chose. These cannot be switched off, and we set them so the site runs and stays secure.

Analytics

Used to see how visitors find and use the site, which pages they read, and where they get stuck. It tells us what to improve.

Marketing

Used to link a visit to a form you send us, and to measure campaigns. The HubSpot tracking code and the advertising pixel it loads sit here, so does the Google Ads linker, and so do the campaign and advert click cookies this site sets itself.

What this site loads

The table below is the whole list of what this site stores on your device. Every row is something this site loads or stores itself. One thing we load stores nothing here, and it is described under the table.

Provider Cookies and storage What it is for Category
Osano osano_consentmanager, osano_consentmanager_uuid, osano_consentmanager_tattles (all local storage) Shows the cookie banner and records the choices you make in it. Essential
No provider identified cookietest Checks whether your browser accepts cookies at all. It holds nothing about you and is removed straight away. Our consent platform found it on this site and lists it, and it names no provider for it. Essential
Cognatum cg-intro (session storage) Plays the logo animation once per browsing session rather than on every page. Essential
Google Analytics 4 _ga, and a second _ga cookie named after our property Measures pages visited, approximate location from your IP address, device and browser type, and the site you came from. Analytics
HubSpot hubspotutk, __hstc, __hssc, __hssrc Gives your visit an identifier and records the pages you read, so that a form you send us can be joined to what you read first. It also loads an advertising pixel. Marketing
Google Ads _gcl_au, and _gcl_ls in local storage Set by the Google tag to link your visit to one of our adverts, so we can measure how well our advertising works. Marketing
Cognatum cg_utm, cg_gclid Stores the campaign tags from the link you arrived on for thirty days, and the advert click identifier for ninety days, so that a form you send us later carries the campaign it came from. Marketing

We keep this list by hand and check it on the review date above. To see the record of what you chose, and to change it, use the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page.

The demo scheduling calendar

When you send us a demo request, we show a HubSpot booking calendar on the page so you can pick a time. It is a page from HubSpot shown inside ours, and it loads only after you submit that form.

We treat it as essential, so it loads whatever you chose in the banner. Three reasons:

  • It delivers the booking you asked for by sending the form.
  • It is not measurement and it is not advertising.
  • Declining to show it would mean answering a request for a meeting by hiding the calendar.

HubSpot may store its own data against that calendar under its own policy. That is why we name it here rather than leave it out for storing nothing on our side.

Your choices

On your first visit you will see a banner. You can accept cookies, decline the ones that are not essential, or set each category on its own.

Where the law requires it, including for visitors in the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area, we set no analytics or marketing cookie until you accept one. Visitors elsewhere may decline through the same banner or through their browser.

Why the banner lists more categories than this page

The banner is run by Osano and shows their standard set of categories. We cannot rename or remove them, so two of the names there differ from the three used above.

The category the banner calls Targeted Advertising is the one this page calls Marketing. It is one control under two names, and it is the one that governs the HubSpot tracking code and the cg_utm cookie in the table above.

The banner also offers a Personalization category. We set nothing in it, so accepting or declining it changes nothing on this site.

Changing your mind

Use the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page. Withdrawing consent does not change whether what we did before you withdrew it was lawful.

Browser controls

Most browsers can block or delete cookies in their settings. Blocking every cookie may stop parts of this site working.

Opt-out signals your browser sends

Where the law requires it, we honour the Global Privacy Control. We treat that signal as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising.

Some browsers also send a Do Not Track signal. There is no common industry standard for reading it, so this site does not respond to it. It is a separate mechanism from the Global Privacy Control above, which we do honour where the law requires.

Sale or sharing of personal information

Some analytics and marketing methods described here may count as a sale or a sharing of personal information under California law and under comparable state laws.

You can opt out at any time through the Cookie settings link in the footer by turning off the marketing category. Section 6 of our privacy policy sets out how we handle a request of that kind.

Changes to this policy

We may update this page when the tools we use change or when the law changes. The review date at the top shows when it last changed.