Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how OpCord uses cookies and similar technologies on https://opcord.com .

It should be read together with our Privacy Policy .

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on a visitor’s computer, mobile phone or other device when a website is accessed.

Cookies may be used to:

• Enable essential website functions
• Maintain sessions and login states
• Protect forms and the website against abuse
• Remember visitor choices
• Measure website usage
• Support advertising or marketing activities

Some cookies expire when the browser is closed, while others remain for a defined period or until deleted.

2. Cookies Currently Used by OpCord

As of the effective date of this policy, opcord.com uses cookies or similar technologies that may be necessary for WordPress operation, website administration, contact-form security, protection against spam or misuse, and website analytics through Google Analytics.

Essential WordPress Cookies

WordPress may set essential cookies when:

• An authorised administrator signs in
• A logged-in user’s session must be maintained
• WordPress verifies browser or cookie compatibility
• Website preferences or administrative settings must be preserved
• Security controls require session information

Most ordinary visitors who do not log in may not receive WordPress login cookies.

These cookies are required for secure website operation and cannot always be disabled through the website itself.

Contact-Form and Security Technologies

The website’s contact forms or security tools may use cookies, session identifiers, IP-address checks, tokens or similar technologies to:

• Validate form submissions
• Prevent duplicate or automated submissions
• Detect spam
• Protect the website against malicious activity
• Maintain website and form security

Form information submitted by visitors may be stored using Flamingo and transmitted through Google Workspace, as explained in the Privacy Policy .

3. Google Analytics Cookies

OpCord uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors use opcord.com and to improve the website’s content, performance, navigation and user experience.

Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies to collect information such as:

• Pages visited
• Approximate location
• Device type and browser
• Referring website or source
• Approximate session duration
• Interactions with website content
• General website usage and traffic patterns

Google Analytics is used for statistical and analytical purposes and is not intended to identify visitors directly. Information collected through Google Analytics may be processed by Google in accordance with Google’s applicable privacy policies and terms.

Google Analytics cookies are non-essential analytics cookies. Where required by applicable law, they will be placed only after the visitor has provided consent through the website’s cookie-consent mechanism.

Visitors may reject or withdraw consent for analytics cookies without affecting access to the website’s basic content.

Depending on the Google Analytics configuration, Google may process information on servers located outside the visitor’s country. OpCord may use available privacy and data-protection settings, such as IP-address controls or restricted data-sharing settings, where supported by the service configuration.

Google Analytics may include cookies such as _ga, _ga_* and related analytics identifiers. Cookie names, providers, durations and configurations may change as Google updates its services or as OpCord changes its analytics setup.

Visitors can manage or withdraw analytics consent through the website’s cookie-settings tool, where available. They may also block or delete Google Analytics cookies through their browser settings or use Google’s available browser opt-out tools.

4. Marketing and Advertising Cookies

OpCord does not currently use marketing, retargeting, behavioural-advertising or cross-site tracking cookies on opcord.com.

If advertising or marketing technologies are introduced in the future, they will not be treated as essential cookies. This policy and the website’s consent controls will be updated before they are used.

5. Third-Party Content

Pages may contain links to third-party websites or, in the future, embedded content such as videos, maps, social-media content, scheduling tools or external forms.

A third-party service may place its own cookies when its content is loaded or used. Those cookies are controlled by the relevant third party and are governed by that provider’s cookie and privacy policies.

OpCord will review embedded services and, where required, prevent non-essential third-party cookies from loading until visitor consent has been obtained.

6. Cookie Consent

Because opcord.com uses Google Analytics in addition to essential WordPress, form and security technologies, analytics cookies are treated as non-essential cookies.

Where required by applicable law, visitors will be provided with an appropriate consent mechanism allowing them to:

• Accept non-essential cookies
• Reject non-essential cookies
• Select cookie categories
• Change or withdraw their preferences

Rejecting optional cookies will not prevent access to the website’s basic content, although certain optional features may function differently.

Essential WordPress, form and security technologies may operate without optional-cookie consent where permitted by applicable law and where they are necessary for the secure operation of the website.

7. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

You can view, block or delete cookies through your browser settings.

Common options include:

• Blocking all cookies
• Blocking third-party cookies
• Deleting cookies when the browser closes
• Deleting cookies for a specific website
• Receiving a warning before cookies are stored

Blocking essential cookies may affect website functionality, administrator access, form submission or security features.

Browser instructions are generally available through the browser’s Privacy, Security, Cookies or Site Data settings.

8. Changing or Withdrawing Consent

Visitors may change or withdraw consent for Google Analytics and other non-essential cookies through the website’s cookie-preference tool, where available, by selecting the “Cookie Settings” link displayed on the website.

Visitors may also manage or delete cookies using their browser settings or contact OpCord with a cookie-related privacy request.

9. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when:

• Website functionality changes
• New plugins or service providers are introduced
• Analytics or marketing technologies are enabled or changed
• Applicable legal or regulatory requirements change

The latest version will be published on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.

10. Contact Us

For questions about cookies or privacy, contact: