What This Covers
A cookie is a small file a website stores in your browser. This page explains exactly what meetbrackets.com stores, why, and what happens only if you agree.
Most of this website runs without any cookies at all. Marketing cookies exist on a small number of campaign pages, and only after you accept them.
Cookies We Set Without Consent
These are strictly necessary for the website to work, so they do not require consent.
brackets_consent— stores your cookie choice, its version, and when you made it, so we do not ask again on every page. First-party, expires after 12 months.skipHeaderEntrance— a session entry (not a cookie in the tracking sense) that skips the header intro animation when you navigate between pages. It is deleted when you close the tab.
Neither is used to track you, to build a profile, or to share anything with third parties.
Cookies We Set Only With Your Consent
Marketing (Google). On our campaign landing pages and on the Free Code Audit page, we ask whether we may measure which advert or campaign brought you here. Without that, we cannot tell which spend leads to real enquiries.
- Set by Google, loaded through Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics 4.
- Nothing from Google is loaded at all until you accept. If you reject, no request is made to Google and no Google cookie is created.
- Names and lifetimes are defined by Google. The most common are
_ga,_ga_*and_gcl_au, with lifetimes of up to 24 months. - We use Google Consent Mode, which means Google is told your choice before any tag runs.
We do not use these cookies on articles, case studies, or the rest of the website.
Analytics Without Cookies
We use Plausible Analytics to see how many people read a page. Plausible sets no cookies and collects no personal data: all figures are aggregated and anonymous, so no consent is required for it under GDPR.
Changing or Withdrawing Your Choice
Use the Cookie preferences link in the footer of any page. You can switch marketing cookies off again there at any time, just as easily as you turned them on. When you withdraw consent, we tell Google to stop and remove the Google cookies we can reach. A script already loaded on the page you are looking at cannot be unloaded, but it stops collecting; from your next page view onwards nothing from Google is loaded at all.
If we materially change the categories or this wording, we raise the version of our consent record and ask you again.
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The website keeps working either way — nothing here is behind a cookie wall.
Related
Our privacy policy covers the rest: what personal data we process, on what legal basis, and your rights under GDPR.
Contact
Questions about cookies or anything else on this page: connect@meetbrackets.com.
