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Cookie Policy
What cookies we use, why we use them, and how you stay in control.
Last updated: 16 September 2026
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files (and similar storage technologies) placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites work, remember your choices, and understand how they’re used.
2. How we use cookies
We keep our use of cookies to a minimum and group them into two types:
- Essential — needed for the site to function and to remember your cookie choice. These don’t require consent.
- Analytics (non-essential) — help us understand how visitors use the site so we can improve it. We only enable these after you accept.
Our own website analytics are cookieless and anonymous — they store nothing on your device and we never store your IP address or raw browser details. Your IP is used transiently to estimate your country and to derive a daily-rotating, non-reversible token for counting unique visits, then discarded. Because no cookies are set and no personal data is stored, these measurements run without a consent banner (PECR’s consent rule applies to storage on your device, which we don’t do). The Analytics (non-essential) category above refers to Google Analytics, which does set the cookies listed below and is only enabled after you accept. See our Privacy Policy for full details of what we collect.
3. Cookies we use
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| inteleforge_cookie_consent | Essential | Remembers whether you accepted or rejected analytics cookies (stored locally in your browser) | Up to 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | Google Analytics — distinguishes unique users (set only with consent) | Up to 2 years |
| _ga_<id> | Analytics | Google Analytics — maintains session state (set only with consent) | Up to 2 years |
| kitchen_session | Essential | Keeps an authorised administrator signed in to our private admin area (never set for normal visitors) | Up to 12 hours |
| kitchen_otp | Essential | Holds the pending two-factor code during an administrator sign-in (never set for normal visitors) | Up to 5 minutes |
If we don’t have analytics enabled, only the essential consent preference is stored.
4. Managing your choice
You chose your preferences when you first arrived. You can change them at any time:
You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings. Note that blocking essential cookies may stop parts of the site working.
5. Your consent
In line with the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), we do not set non-essential cookies until you have given consent. “Reject all” is as easy as “Accept all”.
6. More information
For how we handle personal data more generally, see our Privacy Policy. Questions? Email business@inteleforge.co.uk.