Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Kelp Core Vault uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide reporting information.

2. How we use cookies

We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website.

3. Your control over cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in your web browser. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.

4. The cookies we actually set

In practice, that's a short list: a session cookie that keeps the productivity-audit intake form from resetting if you navigate away mid-entry, a preference cookie that remembers whether you've already dismissed our engagement-availability banner, and an analytics cookie that tells us which frameworks page gets read before someone books a consultation. We don't run advertising retargeting pixels on this site.

5. Duration

Session cookies clear automatically when you close your browser. The preference and analytics cookies described above are set to expire after 12 months, at which point your browser will drop them and, on your next visit, you'll be asked to set your preferences again.

6. Third-party cookies

Our analytics provider may set its own cookie to distinguish returning visitors from new ones. That provider does not receive your name or contact details from us — only anonymized behavioral data tied to a random identifier.

7. Updates

If the tools we use to run this site change, we'll update this policy and the Effective Date above. We don't expect that to happen often; when it does, we'll flag it prominently rather than bury it in a version-history footnote.

8. Browser Controls

Chrome and Edge keep cookie controls under Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies; Safari under Preferences > Privacy; Firefox under Settings > Privacy & Security. Rejecting the preference cookie won't break anything — it just means we'll ask about your availability-banner preference again on your next visit.

9. Do Not Track

There's no industry-wide agreement on how a site should respond to a browser's Do Not Track signal, so we don't build separate handling for it. Our answer is simpler: set as few cookies as the site actually needs, and be specific about what each one does, as documented above.

10. Consent

The first time you land on this site, we ask before setting anything beyond the strictly necessary session cookie. That choice is recorded locally so we're not re-asking every time you load a new page in the same session.

11. Local Storage

Beyond cookies proper, your browser may hold small amounts of local storage — for example, whether you've already seen a particular in-page prompt. That data stays on your device and isn't transmitted to us.

12. Contact

Questions about this Cookie Policy can be sent to privacy@kelpcorevault.com.

13. Relationship to Diagnostic Data

Nothing described in this Cookie Policy touches the diagnostic inputs you provide during an Executive Productivity Audit. Those are collected through direct forms and secured channels, never through browser cookies, and are governed by our Privacy Policy.