1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files placed on your device by the websites you visit. They are widely used to make sites work efficiently, remember your preferences, and understand how visitors use a website. Similar technologies include local storage and session storage, which this policy also covers.
2. Our approach
We run a deliberately small cookie footprint. We do not use cookies for advertising, retargeting, profiling, or cross-site tracking. We use only two categories:
- Strictly necessary cookies: required for the website to function correctly. These do not require consent.
- Analytics cookies: help us understand aggregate visitor behaviour so we can improve the site. These are opt-in only and will not be set until you accept them via our cookie banner.
When you first visit the site you see a cookie banner. Until you make a choice, no analytics cookies are set. Your choice is remembered for 12 months. You can change your preferences at any time using the button at the end of this page.
3. Cookies we use
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | |||
ov_cookie_consent |
OutsourceVerify (first-party) | Stores your cookie preferences so the banner is not shown on every visit. Contains only your consent state: no personal data. | 12 months |
| Analytics (opt-in only) | |||
_ga |
Google Analytics (GA4) | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish unique visitors for aggregate visitor-count statistics. Set only if you have accepted analytics cookies. | 2 years |
_ga_<container-id> |
Google Analytics (GA4) | Used by Google Analytics to persist session state for a single measurement-ID property. Set only if you have accepted analytics cookies. | 2 years |
_gid |
Google Analytics (may be set in some regions) | Used to distinguish visitors within a 24-hour window. Set only if you have accepted analytics cookies. | 24 hours |
We do not set advertising, social, or third-party marketing cookies. If a future change adds a cookie to this site, this table will be updated at least 30 days before the change takes effect.
4. Google Analytics configuration
When you accept analytics cookies, we load Google Analytics 4 with the following privacy-respecting configuration:
- IP anonymisation enabled: your IP address is truncated before processing so we do not see your full IP.
- Advertising features disabled: no remarketing, no Google Signals, no demographic or interest reports.
- Ad personalisation disabled: Google will not use the data to personalise ads.
- Shortened data retention: the minimum GA4 retention window is applied to user-level and event-level data.
- No cross-site tracking: we do not share analytics data with other properties.
You can read Google's privacy notice at policies.google.com/privacy. You can also opt out of Google Analytics at the browser level using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
analytics.js and the consent banner in cookie-consent.js. Both are served from our own domain. Analytics only loads after you accept analytics cookies: the banner controls whether the GA4 script is ever fetched.
5. Your choices
In our banner
When you first visit the site you see a banner with three options:
- Accept all: strictly necessary plus analytics cookies.
- Reject non-essential: strictly necessary only. No analytics.
- Customise: pick category by category.
Changing your mind later
You can update your preferences at any time by clicking the button below. Doing so immediately applies your new choice: if you switch analytics off, we stop using analytics data for you from that point onward and your analytics cookies will expire naturally.
In your browser
Most browsers let you block or delete cookies directly. The site will continue to work if you block all cookies, but certain preferences (including your own consent state) will not persist between visits. Browser-level controls:
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
- Safari: Safari → Settings → Privacy
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
- Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions
6. Do Not Track
We honour the signal where technically possible. Where your browser sends a Do Not Track request or a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal on first visit, we treat it as a "reject non-essential" choice until you explicitly tell us otherwise in the banner.
7. Changes to this policy
If we add new cookies, change providers, or materially change how cookies are set, we will update this page and refresh the "Last updated" date at the top. Substantive changes will be announced via a banner on the site for 14 days.
8. Contact
Questions or concerns about cookies on this site: privacy@outsourceverify.com.