Cookie Policy
Contents
1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device — computer, tablet, or mobile phone — when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, to remember your preferences, and to provide information to website owners about how visitors use their site.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Octagon Solutions) are called first-party cookies. Cookies set by third parties other than the website owner are called third-party cookies. Third-party cookies enable features or functionality provided by a third party to be present on or through the website.
Cookies can be session cookies — which are deleted when you close your browser — or persistent cookies — which remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
Octagon Solutions uses the following categories of cookies on this website:
| Category | Purpose | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly Necessary | Essential for the website to function. These include security cookies, session management, and cookies set by WordPress core. Cannot be disabled. | Yes |
| Functional | Remember your preferences and settings, such as consent choices stored by WPConsent. Improve your experience without tracking you across other sites. | No |
| Analytics | Help us understand how visitors interact with the site — which pages are visited, how long visitors stay, and how they arrived. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. | No |
We do not use advertising, targeting, or social media tracking cookies. We do not run retargeting campaigns or share cookie data with advertisers.
3. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit the site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to arriving. We use this information to improve our website and content.
📊 Google Analytics Details
Provider: Google LLC
Purpose: Website usage analytics — page views, session duration, traffic sources
Cookie names: _ga, _ga_*, _gid, _gat
Data collected: Anonymized IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, referral source
Retention: Up to 14 months
Google Privacy Policy: policies.google.com/privacy
We have configured Google Analytics to anonymize IP addresses, which means Google truncates your IP address before storing it. We do not use Google Analytics to collect personally identifiable information, and we do not combine Google Analytics data with other data sources that would allow us to identify individual visitors.
Google Analytics cookies are only set after you have provided consent through our cookie consent banner, unless you are in a region where analytics cookies are permitted without explicit consent under applicable law.
4. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit our website, a cookie consent banner will appear allowing you to accept or decline non-essential cookies, including analytics cookies. Your choice is stored and respected on subsequent visits.
Withdrawing consent for analytics cookies does not affect the functionality of the website. Strictly necessary cookies cannot be disabled as they are required for the site to operate.
5. Browser-Level Controls
In addition to our consent management tool, most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically:
- View what cookies are stored on your device
- Delete individual cookies or all cookies
- Block cookies from specific websites
- Block third-party cookies
- Set your browser to notify you when a cookie is being set
Browser cookie controls vary by browser. Refer to your browser’s help documentation for specific instructions:
Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this and other websites you visit.
6. Do Not Track
Some browsers include a Do Not Track (DNT) feature that signals to websites that you do not want to be tracked. There is currently no industry-standard interpretation of DNT signals. Our website does not currently respond to DNT signals, but you can use the cookie consent controls described above to limit analytics tracking.
7. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our use of cookies, legal requirements, or for other operational reasons. When we make material changes we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Continued use of our website after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
8. Contact Us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us: