1. Cookies and local storage
Cookies are small text records stored by a browser. Local storage and session storage are similar browser technologies that can remember information between pages or visits. UK rules can apply to all of these technologies, not only traditional cookies.
2. Technologies used by TESTDOG
| Technology | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase authentication browser storage | Keeps you signed in, refreshes your secure session and permits access to your own portal records. | Persists until expiry, sign-out or browser storage is cleared. |
| OAuth security state / PKCE data | Secures sign-in redirects with Google, Microsoft and GitHub and helps prevent forged login requests. | Temporary; normally removed or expires after the sign-in flow. |
| TESTDOG pending-request session storage | Temporarily keeps an enquiry typed before login so it can be restored after successful authentication. | For the browser-tab session or until the request is restored. |
| Cookie preferences (testdogCookieConsentV3) | Remembers your separate analytics and advertising choices; the legacy V2 key supports existing first-party analytics. | Until you change your choice or clear browser storage. |
| Google advertising cookies, including _gcl_* | After advertising consent, helps connect an ad click with a completed enquiry. | Commonly up to 90 days; see Google's cookie information for individual lifetimes. |
| Conversion deduplication (testdog.ads.submitted.v1) | After advertising consent, stores random enquiry IDs to avoid sending the same submission again. | Records expire after 90 days and are pruned when another conversion is processed; removed when consent is withdrawn. |
| Hosting and security technology | Vercel and infrastructure providers may use strictly necessary mechanisms for routing, abuse prevention, availability and security. | According to the security purpose and provider configuration. |
With your separate consent, Google Ads measures advertising visits and successful enquiry submissions. Google receives technical information such as your IP address and browser information, advertising click identifiers, the page address and a random enquiry identifier used to prevent duplicate counting. Our conversion event does not include your name, email, telephone number, enquiry text, uploaded files or account credentials. We do not enable enhanced conversions, remarketing or ad personalisation in this integration. See Google's business privacy information. Basic page-view measurement does not place an analytics cookie or persistent browser identifier. The server creates a privacy-safe identifier that resets daily and records the requested public page plus coarse country, region and city supplied by our hosting provider. It is used for aggregate reporting and cannot reliably identify a person; shared networks may combine multiple visitors.
Optional first-party analytics run only after consent and record event counts, a pseudonymous visitor and 30-minute session identifier, page paths, service interest, coarse referral and location information, masked network signals, and suitably redacted service searches. A network signal is not treated as a person or customer count. We do not store full AI prompts, uploaded file contents, authentication tokens, email addresses, telephone numbers, exact location or device fingerprints in behaviour analytics. Detailed analytics are normally retained for 90 days and aggregated reporting may be retained for at least 13 months.
3. Cookie consent control
Analytics and advertising measurement are separate, optional choices. Reject non-essential leaves optional analytics and advertising measurement switched off. Accept all enables both optional purposes. In Cookie preferences, you can enable either purpose independently. Earlier consent to TESTDOG analytics does not authorise Google advertising measurement; returning visitors are asked to review the updated choices.
Google scripts are not loaded before advertising consent. You can withdraw consent in Cookie settings in the footer. This stops new enquiry conversion events and clears accessible first-party Google advertising cookies and local conversion deduplication records. Previously transmitted data and cookies on Google domains are not deleted by our website. You can manage Google-domain cookies in your browser. Ad personalisation stays disabled.
4. Third-party sign-in pages
When you choose Google, Microsoft or GitHub sign-in, your browser leaves TESTDOG and visits that provider. The provider may use its own cookies and browser storage under its own privacy and cookie notices. TESTDOG does not control those provider-domain technologies.
5. How to control browser storage
You can reopen the consent control below, sign out of the portal or use browser settings to view, block or delete site data. Blocking essential storage may prevent sign-in, file upload, portal access or preservation of an unfinished request. Private-browsing modes normally delete storage when the private session closes.
6. Changes
We may update this notice when technology or law changes. The effective date above identifies the current version.
7. Contact
Questions about browser storage or personal data may be sent to team@globallaboratories.co.uk. See our Privacy Notice for more information.