What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on or accessed from your device when you visit a website.
Websites may also use similar technologies, including local storage, session storage, pixels and other mechanisms that store or access information on a device.
How Colebridge uses these technologies
Depending on the features enabled on our website, we may use them for:
Strictly necessary purposes
These technologies are required for the website or a feature you request to operate.
They may support:
- security;
- session management;
- forms;
- remembering privacy choices;
- load balancing; and
- other essential website functionality.
Where applicable law permits, these do not require consent.
Analytics
Analytics help us understand how people use the Colebridge website and tools.
For example:
- pages visited;
- features used;
- broad traffic patterns;
- Diagnostic starts and completions; and
- technical performance.
Where applicable law requires consent before analytics technologies are stored on or accessed from your device, we will not activate them until you consent.
Functional technologies
These may remember choices or enable enhanced functionality.
Where consent is legally required, they will not be activated until you choose to allow them.
Marketing
If Colebridge introduces advertising or marketing technologies in the future, this notice and our consent controls will be updated before those technologies are deployed where required.
What Colebridge uses today
The public website uses session storage for the Business Performance Check. It does not use analytics or advertising technologies. The administrator area uses a separate sign-in cookie. The website currently has no cookie preference banner.
The following application storage supports features you request. The calculator entries describe legacy storage from tools that have since been retired.
| Technology | Purpose | Category | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
colebridge-diagnostic-v2 (session storage) | Keeps your Business Performance Check answers and progress so a page refresh does not lose them. | Necessary (a feature you request) | Until you close the browser tab or start a new Diagnostic. |
colebridge-calculator-v1 (session storage) | Legacy storage from the retired Business Leak Calculator; may remain in an existing browser tab. | Necessary (a feature you request) | Until you close the browser tab or clear the calculation. |
colebridge-enquiry- followed by a random identifier (session storage) | Legacy calculation summary carried to an enquiry when requested; only submitted with the enquiry. | Necessary (a feature you request) | Until you send the request, close the browser tab, or after 30 minutes if unused. |
Session storage is held in your browser tab. Separately, reaching the Diagnostic report automatically sends your answers to our server to record scores and completion information, without saving individual answers in that completion record. Choosing to share your report also sends your contact details and saves your individual answers. See the Privacy Policy for details.
Usage counts
We count how many people complete the Business Performance Check and keep the anonymous score summaries described above for research and to improve the check. We do not use third-party website analytics.
Third-party content
The website’s typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts. When a page loads, your browser requests those font files directly from Google’s servers, which means Google receives technical information such as your IP address. Nothing is stored on your device for this purpose by Colebridge.
Administrator area
A separate sign-in cookie is used only for Colebridge’s own administrator area. Visitors to the public website never receive it.
Managing your choices
You can contact privacy@colebridge.co about your information or to object to processing where that right applies.
You can also clear session storage and cookies at any time using your browser’s settings.
Questions
If you have questions about this notice, contact privacy@colebridge.co. See also our Privacy Policy.