Cookies Policy

This policy explains how Insight Harbor HQ uses cookies and similar technologies on this website, what each one does, how long it lasts, and how you can control them. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy. Our use of cookies follows the ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC as implemented in national law and, for any personal data involved, the GDPR.

1. What are cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time. Similar technologies include local storage and session storage, which serve comparable purposes. We refer to all of these together as "cookies" in this policy. Cookies may be "session" cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser, or "persistent" cookies, which remain until they expire or you delete them.

2. How we categorise cookies

We group cookies into strictly necessary cookies, which are always active because the site cannot function without them, and optional cookies (currently analytics only), which are set solely with your prior consent. We do not use advertising, profiling or cross-site tracking cookies.

3. Consent and the legal basis

Strictly necessary cookies are set under the exemption in the ePrivacy Directive and do not require consent. All optional cookies are set only after you give consent through our cookie banner, in line with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. Until you accept, no optional cookie is placed. Your choice is itself remembered in a strictly necessary consent cookie so we do not ask you on every visit.

4. Strictly necessary cookies we use

ihq_consent — records your cookie preferences so we can honour them; expiry 12 months; strictly necessary. PHPSESSID — a standard session cookie that maintains your session state (for example so a submitted form or language choice behaves correctly); expiry: end of session; strictly necessary. These cannot be switched off through our banner, but you can block or delete them in your browser, accepting that parts of the site may then not work.

5. Analytics cookies (optional)

With your consent we use privacy-friendly analytics with IP anonymisation to understand aggregate usage — for example which pages are visited and how visitors arrive — so we can improve the site. These cookies are only set after you accept, do not identify you personally, and are not used to build advertising profiles. If you decline or later withdraw consent, no analytics cookie is set and any existing one is no longer used.

6. Marketing and tracking cookies

We do not set advertising, remarketing, social-media or cross-site tracking cookies on this website, and we do not share cookie data with advertising networks.

7. Third-party cookies

The optional analytics described above is provided by a processor acting on our instructions under a data processing agreement. We do not embed third-party advertising or social widgets that would set their own tracking cookies. Where any personal data is involved in analytics, it is handled as set out in our Privacy Policy, including the section on international transfers.

8. Managing your preferences on this site

You can change or withdraw your cookie choice at any time using the "Manage cookie preferences" button below. Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it and takes effect immediately for future processing.

9. Controlling cookies in your browser

You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings. Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge each provide controls to view, block and delete cookies, and to open a private-browsing window that does not retain them. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may cause parts of the site to stop working.

10. Do Not Track

Because there is no common industry standard for how websites should respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals, we do not currently respond to them. Our consent-based approach means no optional cookie is set unless you actively accept it.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy if the cookies we use change. The effective date above marks the current version, and any material change will be reflected here.

12. Contact

Questions about our use of cookies can be sent to privacy@insightharborhq.com.