Cookie policy
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Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. This page lists the ones goat-robotics.com uses and how to control them.
In short
- Necessary storage only remembers your choices and keeps the site and its forms secure. It is always on.
- On your first visit we ask for your choice. I agree turns on analytics (Google Analytics 4 and our own visit record) and advertising (Google advertising features and, if enabled, the LinkedIn Insight Tag). Manage settings lets you turn each one on or off. Your choice is remembered for 12 months.
- Analytics and advertising are off until you turn them on. Ignoring the banner sets no analytics or advertising cookies.
- You can change your choice at any time from Cookie settings at the foot of every page — the change applies immediately.
Cookies and similar technologies we use
| Name | Provider | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| goat_consent | GOAT Robotics | Necessary | Remembers your cookie choices so we don’t ask on every page. | 12 months |
| goat_lead | GOAT Robotics | Necessary (set at your request) | Set when you fill in the download form. Holds your details, encrypted, so later brochure downloads start without the form. Can’t be read by scripts. | 6 months |
| goat_dl | GOAT Robotics | Necessary (set at your request) | Tells this site you have already filled in the download form. Contains no personal data. | 6 months |
| goat_units (local storage) | GOAT Robotics | Necessary (preference) | Remembers whether you view specifications in metric or imperial units. Never sent to our servers. | Until cleared |
| Cloudflare Turnstile | Cloudflare | Necessary | If enabled, checks that form submissions come from a person. Processes device signals; sets no tracking cookies. | Session |
| goat_visit | GOAT Robotics | Analytics — only if you turn it on | Counts your visits and page views, and remembers when you first came, how you found us (campaign link, ad click ID or referring website, first and most recent) and the last pages you viewed. Stays in your browser; our sales team sees it only if you contact us or download a document. | 12 months |
| _ga, _ga_<ID> | Google Analytics 4 | Analytics — only if you turn it on | Counts visits and shows which pages, links and documents are useful, using pseudonymous identifiers. No names, email addresses, phone numbers or form contents are sent. | Up to 2 years |
| _gcl_au, _gcl_aw and Google advertising cookies | Google (advertising features) | Advertising — only if you turn it on | Links ad clicks to visits, and measures and personalises our Google ads. | Up to 90 days (Google’s own cookies up to 13 months) |
| li_sugr, bcookie, lidc, UserMatchHistory, AnalyticsSyncHistory | LinkedIn Insight Tag (only if enabled) | Advertising — only if you turn it on | Measures the results of our LinkedIn campaigns and builds audiences of site visitors. | Up to 6 months |
Third-party providers process data under their own policies: Google and LinkedIn.
Your choices
Use to turn analytics and advertising on or off. When you turn one off, we tell Google straight away and delete the cookies this site set for it: _ga, _gid, _gat and goat_visit for analytics; _gcl and LinkedIn’s first-party cookies for advertising. If the LinkedIn tag was running, the page reloads so it stops. Turning a category off doesn’t recall information already sent; cookies set by other domains (for example linkedin.com) can only be cleared in your browser settings, where you can also block or delete cookies.
Google Consent Mode
We use Google Consent Mode v2 (advanced). Before you choose, Google’s tag loads with every consent signal set to “denied” (analytics storage, ad storage, ad user data and ad personalisation). In that state it sets no cookies and sends only cookieless pings without identifiers, which Google may use for aggregated, modelled reporting. Clicks, downloads and form outcomes are not sent. If you turn on analytics only, Google receives analytics storage as granted and the advertising signals stay denied; I agree or turning on Advertising grants them too.
For how we handle personal data generally, see the privacy policy.