What we collect when you visit this site, why, and how to switch it off. Short version: we measure how the site is used so we can improve it. We do not sell data and we do not run advertising.
Two tools. Whether they load before or after you choose depends on where you are — see Your choices below.
We also record a small number of named events so we can tell which pages do their job: outbound and contact-link clicks, scroll depth, video plays, form submissions and time on page. None of these identify you personally.
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics 4 | Distinguishes returning visits so sessions aren't double-counted | 13 months |
_clck, _clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Links page views into a single session recording | 1 year / 1 day |
csc-consent | This site | Remembers your cookie choice. Stored in your browser, never sent to us | Until you clear it |
csc-theme | This site | Remembers light or dark mode. Strictly functional | Until you clear it |
In the EU, UK, EEA, Switzerland and Canada, none of the analytics cookies above exist and no request is made to Google or Microsoft until you accept. Elsewhere they are set on arrival and removed if you opt out.
Privacy law differs by country, so this site applies the rule that fits rather than the same rule everywhere.
| If you're in… | What happens on arrival | Why |
|---|---|---|
| EU, UK, EEA, Switzerland, Canada | Nothing loads. A banner asks first; analytics starts only if you click Accept | GDPR and ePrivacy require prior consent. Quebec's Law 25 does too |
| Everywhere else | Analytics starts, and a notice tells you so with an Opt out button | US privacy law (CCPA/CPRA) is an opt-out regime — consent isn't required in advance, but a way out is |
Your region is worked out from your browser's own timezone setting. We deliberately do not look your IP address up against a location database, because doing that would send your address to a third party before you'd had any say. The trade-off is that the guess can be wrong — if you're travelling, or on a VPN, you may get the other region's behaviour.
Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, our legal basis for analytics is your consent, which you give by choosing Accept and can withdraw at any time. Where US state privacy law applies, our basis is our legitimate interest in understanding how the site is used, subject to your right to opt out — which we honour both through the notice above and automatically via Global Privacy Control. You have the right to access, correct or erase the data we hold, and to complain to your supervisory authority. Because we do not collect identifiers that let us find you in the data, an erasure request is best served by declining consent and clearing your cookies.
Questions about this policy, or a request about your data: ved@collaborativesupplychains.com.
This page describes how the website works. It is not legal advice, and it does not replace a contractual privacy notice for client engagements.