What we store in your browser
The complete list of the cookies and browser storage this site uses, what each one is for, how long it lasts, and how to change your mind.
Last updated: 21 August 2026Short version: we set six things, four of them are needed to make the site work, and the two analytics ones can be switched off at any time from the footer of any page without changing how anything behaves.
What a cookie is here
A cookie is a small file a site stores in your browser and reads back on your next request. We also use browser local storage, which works the same way from your point of view except that it is never sent to our servers. This page covers both, and lists everything we use.
We do not use advertising cookies, we do not run retargeting pixels, and we do not share what we collect with advertising networks.
Everything we set
Strictly necessary
Needed for the site to work: signing in, keeping a session, and deciding whether we have to ask you about cookies at all. These are set whatever you choose, because without them the thing you asked for does not happen.
| Name | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
geo-country | Fractional | Records the country your IP address resolves to, so the site knows whether it has to ask for your consent before loading analytics. It holds a two-letter country code and nothing that identifies you. | 1 hour |
fractional-analytics-consent | Fractional | Stores your cookie choice, so we honour it and stop asking. This is browser local storage rather than a cookie, and it is never sent to our servers. | Until you clear your browser storage, or change your choice |
payload-token, authjs.session-token | Fractional | Keeps you signed in to the applicant portal, the operations console or the admin panel. Set only when you sign in. | Until you sign out, or the session expires |
Functional
Remember a choice you made so the site does not ask again. Declining these costs you a small convenience and nothing else.
| Name | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
fd_checked_in_today | Fractional | Remembers that you have already checked in at an event today. | 1 day |
Analytics
Measure how the site is used so we can improve it. These are the ones the banner asks about, and nothing in this category is set before you accept where your region requires us to ask.
| Name | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
ph_*_posthog | PostHog | Identifies your browser across pages so visits can be counted as one session, and records which pages and features are used. | Up to 12 months |
_ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics | Distinguishes browsers and sessions so we can measure traffic, referrers and which pages people arrive on. | Up to 24 months |
When we ask, and when we do not
We show a consent banner to visitors in the United Kingdom, the European Union and the rest of the European Economic Area. There, nothing in the analytics category is set until you accept, and declining sets none of it at all.
Reading this from anywhere else, including most visitors to this site, analytics loads by default and no banner interrupts you. You have the same control either way: switching analytics off below has exactly the same effect as declining, and we honour it the same.
Your local law, the Personal Data Protection Act 2012, treats non-essential cookies as requiring clear notice and a way to turn them off. If you would rather not be measured at all, use the control below and we will not set anything in the analytics category.
To be plain about the limitation: your choice is stored in your own browser, so it applies to that browser on that device. Clearing your site data clears the choice along with everything else, and we will ask again.
Changing your mind
Once you have answered the banner, every page on this site carries a “Cookie preferences” control in its footer that reopens it, so you can change your answer at any time. If you have never been asked, that footer control stays hidden, because there is no stored choice for it to revisit. This one is always here:
Other ways to control cookies
- Your browser settings can block or clear cookies for this site, or for all sites. Blocking the strictly necessary ones will stop parts of the site working, including staying signed in to the applicant portal.
- Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics everywhere, at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Most browsers offer a "do not track" or global privacy control signal. We honour a global privacy control signal where your local law gives it effect.
What analytics actually records
If you accept, we record which pages you view, how you arrived, roughly where you are from your IP address, and what type of device and browser you use. We use that to see which pages are working and which are not.
We do not build advertising profiles, we do not sell what we collect, and analytics does not read anything you type into a form. Where you submit a form, that submission is a first-party record of something you chose to send us, and it is covered by the Privacy Policy rather than by this page.
Changes and contact
When we add or remove something, we update this list and revise the “Last updated” date. Where a change alters what you agreed to, the banner reappears and asks again rather than carrying your old answer forward.
Questions go to hello@fractional-global.com.