Cookie statement

Effective 4 September 2026. Corrected on 15 August 2026, see section 5.

There is no advertising on compliancesme.com, and nothing here builds a profile of you for anyone to buy. The free assessment runs entirely in your browser and stores nothing unless you ask for your report or create an account.

When you sign in to your account we set a single cookie named csme_session. It keeps you signed in for 30 days, it is required for the site to work, and it carries nothing beyond your signed session. It is marked HttpOnly, Secure and SameSite=Lax, so no script can read it and it never travels over an unencrypted connection. Signing out removes it. Because it is strictly necessary to deliver a service you have asked for, that cookie needs no consent.

This site uses Netlify Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read. Netlify counts them from the server logs it already keeps when it serves a page. It sets no cookie, it stores nothing on your device, and it identifies no individual visitor. We use it to understand which pages are useful. We do not use it for advertising and we run no advertising network on this site.

Because nothing is placed on your device and nothing is read from it, these analytics need no consent under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, so there is no cookie notice and no choice for you to make. Google Analytics 4 is no longer used, and the cookies it set, named _ga and _ga_XG53WH4WGK, are no longer set by this site. If your browser still holds one from an earlier visit, nothing on this site reads it, and section 4 tells you how to delete it.

Netlify hosts this site and may set strictly functional cookies needed to serve pages and process forms.

Cloudflare provides the verification box on the sign-in and contact forms, which tells a person apart from an automated script. It may set a cookie for that check.

Stripe sets cookies during checkout for payment processing and fraud prevention. These appear only when you go to pay.

Your browser lets you block or delete cookies at any time. Blocking the session cookie will sign you out and prevent downloads, and blocking the Stripe cookies may prevent checkout from completing.

Until today this page stated that the site carried no analytics. That was wrong: Google Analytics has been running on compliancesme.com and the statement should have said so. The page has been corrected and the analytics and the cookies it sets are now described in section 2.