Cookie notice

Effective date: June 29, 2026
Last updated: June 29, 2026

The short version

When you load a page on www.kodainya.com, no tracking cookies are set untilyou grant consent through the cookie banner. Before consent, only strictly necessary technologies are used — cookie consent preference storage, our editor session cookie (for signed-in editors only), and bot protection on the image subdomain.

If you accept analytics, we set first-party cookies for Google Analytics 4 (loaded through Google Tag Manager) to count page views and understand which articles people read. Vercel Analytics runs by default but is cookieless and stores no personal identifiers. We use HubSpotto receive contact-form submissions server-side — no HubSpot scripts run in your browser. The image subdomain is served through Cloudflare, which sets a single bot-protection cookie scoped to that subdomain.

The rest of this page is the detailed version of the above.

1. What a cookie is

A cookie is a small file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. The next time you visit, the browser sends the cookie back, which lets the site remember things like your login session or your preferences.

In this notice we use “cookies” as shorthand for cookies andclosely related browser storage technologies — localStorage, sessionStorage, and similar — because they raise the same privacy considerations and are treated equivalently by regulators including the EDPB under the GDPR and India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

2. Cookies and similar technologies we use

2.1 Strictly necessary (set regardless of consent)

These are needed for the site to function or for security. They cannot be disabled through the cookie banner.

These are strictly necessaryin the sense used by GDPR Recital 30 and the ePrivacy Directive — they do not require prior consent. They carry no personal data about visitors and are not used for analytics, advertising, or profiling.

3. Analytics (only after you accept)

These run only after you click Acceptin the cookie banner, or accept analytics specifically through the banner’s preferences panel. Until then, all of the following are blocked by Google Consent Mode v2 and configured to fire no analytics cookies.

GA4 is loaded through Google Tag Manager (GTM). GTM itself is a tag-loading utility — it does not set its own visitor-tracking cookies. The cookies above are set by GA4 only after consent.

2.3 Marketing and advertising

None.Kodainya runs no advertising pixels, no retargeting tags, no social-media trackers, and no affiliate trackers. The cookie banner’s “marketing” toggle is reserved for future use; it currently controls no active vendor.

3. Cookieless tools and server-side data processing

The following are not cookies, but are tracking or processing technologies that affect your privacy. We disclose them here for completeness.

3.1 Vercel Web Analytics

Vercel Analytics is a cookieless analytics service from Vercel, Inc. (our hosting provider). It counts page views and unique visitors without using cookies. Per Vercel’s privacy documentation, visitors are identified by a hash of the incoming request that is automatically reset every 24 hours and cannot be used to track a visitor across days or across other websites. No personal identifiers are stored.

Because it sets no cookies and stores no personal identifiers, Vercel Analytics runs by default and is not gated on the cookie-banner choice. If you would prefer it disabled entirely, contact us at hello@kodainya.com and we will exclude your sessions on request.

3.2 Cloudflare R2 (media subdomain)

Images and other media are served from image.kodainya.com, which is fronted by Cloudflare, Inc. Cloudflare sets the __cf_bm bot-protection cookie described in Section 2.1 on that subdomain. Cloudflare states that the cookie contains an encrypted bot score, not a user identifier, and is not used to track visitors across sites.

3.3 Contact form (HubSpot)

When you submit our contact form, the data is sent from your browser to the Kodainya server, which forwards it to HubSpot, Inc. for storage in our customer relationship management system. No HubSpot scripts or pixels run in your browser — the integration is entirely server-to-server, so HubSpot sets no cookies on your device through this site.

HubSpot acts as a data processor on our behalf. For the lawful basis, retention period, and your rights regarding data submitted through the form, see our Privacy Policy.

4. What we don’t use

For clarity, the following common tracking technologies are not in use on www.kodainya.com:

• Advertising and retargeting— no Google Ads, no Google AdSense, no Floodlight, no DV360, no Trade Desk, no Criteo
• Social-media pixels— no Meta Pixel, no LinkedIn Insight Tag, no X (Twitter) Pixel, no TikTok Pixel, no Pinterest Tag
• Visitor identification— no Leadfeeder, no Clearbit, no 6sense, no Albacross
• Session replay— no Hotjar, no FullStory, no Microsoft Clarity, no LogRocket
• Heatmaps— no Mouseflow, no Crazy Egg
• Survey overlays— no Qualtrics, no Typeform-style on-site popovers
• Additional analyticsbeyond Google Analytics 4 and Vercel Analytics — no Plausible, Fathom, Matomo, Mixpanel, Amplitude, PostHog, or similar

If we ever add a tool in any of these categories, this page will be updated before the tool launches, and the homepage will carry a banner announcing the change for at least 30 days.

5. Your choices

The cookie banner appears the first time you visit. It has three buttons:

• Accept— grant consent for analytics. Google Analytics 4 begins setting cookies and counting visits.
• Reject— analytics stays blocked. Only the strictly necessary technologies in Section 2.1 apply.
• Preferences— choose analytics on or off individually. (The marketing toggle exists for future use and currently controls no active vendor.)

You can change your choice any time by clicking “Manage cookies” in the site footer. Your decision is stored locally for 180 days, after which the banner reappears so you can confirm or change it.

Our implementation uses Google’s Consent Mode v2 with all four advertising/analytics signals set to denied by default. Tags fire only after you explicitly grant consent.

6. Third-party content

We sometimes link to external sites (research papers, news articles, manufacturer documentation). Clicking a link takes you to that site, where their cookie policy applies, not ours.

We do not embed third-party iframes, social-media widgets, or video players on article pages, so simply reading articles does not load any third-party advertising or social-media code onto your device.

7. How to control cookies in your browser

In addition to the cookie banner, every major browser provides cookie controls at the browser level:

• Chrome:Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
• Firefox:Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
• Safari:Settings → Privacy
• Edge:Settings → Cookies and site permissions

You can also opt out of Google Analytics globally by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

For a general resource on cookies and how to manage them, see allaboutcookies.org.

8. Changes to this notice

Any change to what cookies we set, or to the third-party services that process visitor data, will be reflected here and the “Last updated” date at the top of this page will change. Material changes will also be announced by a banner on the homepage for at least 30 days.

9. Questions

For any question about this notice, email hello@kodainya.com.

For the broader picture of how we handle data, see our Privacy Policy.

Questions? Get in touch.