1. About this policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Korn Advisory & Consultancy Pte Ltd (trading as Korn Consultancy) uses cookies and similar technologies on https://kornconsultancy.com. Read it together with our Privacy Policy.
2. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies include browser storage (such as "local storage" and "session storage"). In this policy we call them all "cookies".
3. How we use cookies
| Category | What it does | Can you switch it off? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Makes the site work and keeps it secure: remembers your cookie choices, protects forms against spam, keeps the admin area secure, and keeps your assessment progress and results during your visit | No. These are essential |
| Functional | Remembers preferences that improve your experience | Yes |
| Analytics | Helps us understand how visitors use the site, so we can improve it | Yes. Off until you agree |
| Marketing | Measures the effectiveness of our campaigns | Yes. Off until you agree. We do not currently use marketing cookies |
The cookies we use: the table below is generated automatically from our cookie register, so it is always up to date.
| Name | Provider | Type | Purpose | Duration | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kc_consent | Korn Consultancy | Cookie | Remembers your cookie choices and the Cookie Policy version you saw | 6 months | Strictly necessary |
| kc_assessment | Korn Consultancy | Session storage | Keeps your assessment answers and results while you complete it | Until you close the tab | Strictly necessary |
| kc_assessment_partner_led | Korn Consultancy | Session storage | Keeps your Partner-Led assessment answers and results while you complete it | Until you close the tab | Strictly necessary |
| Cloudflare Turnstile | Cloudflare | Security check (Cloudflare frame) | Checks that a form is sent by a person, not a bot. Runs only when you submit a form; we set no cookie for it | Only while the check runs | Strictly necessary |
| Google Calendar booking page | Embedded page (Google frame) | Shown only after you submit the booking form, so you can choose a time. Google may use its own cookies inside its frame, under Google's privacy policy | Set by Google | Strictly necessary | |
| __dpl | Lovable (website hosting) | Cookie | Set by our hosting provider so every page you load during a visit comes from the same published version of the website. Contains no personal information and is not used for analytics | 24 hours | Strictly necessary |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare (website hosting network) | Cookie | Set by the network that delivers our website to tell real visitors apart from automated bots and protect the site from abuse. Not used for analytics or advertising | 30 minutes | Strictly necessary |
| sb-…-auth-token | Korn Consultancy | Local storage | Keeps authorised staff signed in to the admin area. Never set for visitors | Until sign-out | Strictly necessary |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Cookie | Distinguishes visitors so we can understand how the site is used. Set only if you agree to analytics | 2 years | Analytics |
| ga | Google Analytics | Cookie | Keeps session state for Google Analytics. Set only if you agree to analytics | 2 years | Analytics |
| _clck | Microsoft Clarity | Cookie | Keeps a Clarity visitor ID. Set only if you agree to analytics | 1 year | Analytics |
| _clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Cookie | Links page views into one session. Set only if you agree to analytics | 1 day | Analytics |
Currently in use: none in Functional or Marketing.
We do not use advertising or social media tracking pixels. Our fonts are hosted on our own servers. Videos (if any) load only when you click play, using YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode.
4. Analytics cookies (only with your consent)
If you agree to analytics, we use Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity to understand how visitors use the site, so we can improve it. They set these cookies:
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga |
Google Analytics | Distinguishes visitors | 2 years |
_ga_<container-id> |
Google Analytics | Keeps session state | 2 years |
_clck |
Microsoft Clarity | Keeps a Clarity visitor ID | 1 year |
_clsk |
Microsoft Clarity | Links page views into one session | 1 day |
Clarity may set further Microsoft cookies (such as MUID and CLID) under Microsoft's privacy statement. We use Google Consent Mode: analytics stays off until you agree, and advertising settings stay off always — we do not advertise.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time using Cookie settings in the website footer. If you withdraw, analytics cookies are deleted and no further data is collected.
5. Your choices
When you first visit, we ask for your choice. Non-essential cookies stay off unless you agree. You can:
- choose Accept all, Reject non-essential or Customise;
- change your mind at any time using Cookie settings in the website footer; and
- block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of the site (such as forms) from working.
We keep your choice for 6 months, or until we update this policy, and then ask again.
6. Our tools
This applies to both the Retail IoT Technology ROI & TCO Calculator and the Retail Checkout Technology ROI & TCO Calculator on kornconsultancy.com subdomains. Our hosting/security provider, Cloudflare, may set the strictly necessary __cf_bm cookie on these calculator sites, as listed in our cookie register. It is used to distinguish people from automated traffic, is HttpOnly, expires after about 30 minutes and does not identify you. Because it is strictly necessary, no consent is needed.
The calculators hold the session token in the browser's memory only; it expires after 60 minutes. They do not use local storage or session storage for calculator inputs or results. The calculators are analytics-free: Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity do not run on them.
Both the Retail IoT Technology ROI & TCO Calculator and the Retail Checkout Technology ROI & TCO Calculator use Cloudflare Turnstile bot protection, which checks device and browser signals to distinguish human visitors from automated bots. Turnstile is provided by Cloudflare and processed under Cloudflare's privacy policy; we have not enabled Turnstile's optional clearance cookie.
7. Changes and contact
We may update this policy, and will show the latest version and date here. Questions: privacy@kornconsultancy.com.