Cookie Policy
We use essential cookies to keep this website working and remember your preferences. Optional cookies stay off until you allow them. You can change that choice at any time.
Effective date: 30 October 2026
1. What cookies do on this website
A cookie is a small piece of information stored by your browser and sent back to the website with later requests. It can keep you signed in or remember a preference. Browser storage can also hold information locally without sending it with every request.
This policy covers cookies and storage used for cookie preferences on the Xtensyon website, operated by Xtensyon Information Technology Services. Our Privacy Policy explains other information we handle, including enquiries, accounts, applications, website visits, and tool submissions.
2. Essential and optional cookies
Necessary cookies support functions such as sign-in, security, and remembering your cookie choice. They remain active in our preferences panel. You can block them in your browser, but some website functions may stop working.
Choose Accept All to allow every optional category, or Reject All to turn every optional category off. Necessary cookies remain active with either choice. Select Learn more to open the preference panel, change individual switches, and choose Save My Preferences.
The optional categories are Functional for additional features, Analytics for usage measurement, Performance for speed and reliability measurement, Advertisement for ads and their reporting, and Uncategorized for optional services awaiting classification. Expanding a category shows its description and listed cookies. An empty category has no cookies currently listed; enabling it does not install a service.
Advertising, when configured, waits for permission in the Advertisement category. Google Analytics 4, when enabled, uses the separate Analytics permission. Its first-party cookies may include _ga and _ga_* to distinguish visits and sessions; this integration sets a maximum 90-day cookie lifetime without refreshing that expiry. Google property retention settings separately govern data held by Google. Rejecting Analytics prevents initial loading; withdrawing permission disables further measurement and clears this integration's first-party Analytics cookies where accessible. It does not erase information already received by Google. Plausible is not configured. The website can still produce visitor records and technical logs; rejecting optional cookies does not switch off every form of website processing.
If Google advertising is enabled, the Advertisement category first controls loading its tag and Privacy & messaging service. Google may then ask for separate vendor and purpose choices in applicable regions. You can accept website advertising while refusing Google's requested purposes; our managed Google ads stay off when the required consent is missing. Google consent storage may include FCCDCF and FCNEC; advertising storage may include __gads, __gpi and __eoi. These are provider-controlled and are not necessarily set on every visit; inspect your browser for actual names and expiry. Google describes its technologies at How Google uses cookies.
Use Google privacy and cookie settings in the footer of a non-policy page after the service has loaded to reopen its message. Use our Cookie Settings to withdraw the local Advertisement permission. Google tags and the Google message are excluded from our privacy and cookie disclosure pages. Google Analytics uses the separate Analytics permission and is not enabled by accepting Advertisement.
If you open an external service or allow embedded content from another provider, that provider may receive connection information and use its own cookies. Its privacy notice explains that processing.
3. What is stored in your browser
The exact cookies depend on the features you use. These are the main items used by the website and its cookie controls. The website identifier in a storage name separates the choice for each website.
| Cookie or storage | Purpose and duration |
|---|---|
Session and preferencessession_id, frontend_lang | Support your session and language choice. Their duration depends on the website's session settings and your browser; signing out or clearing cookies can end or reset the relevant state. |
Your cookie choicext_consent_* | Remembers whether you allow optional cookies and which policy revision the choice relates to. Set for up to one year from your choice, unless you clear it or a policy change requires another choice. |
Website cookie controlwebsite_cookies_bar | Passes the current choice to the website's cookie controls. Set with a one-year expiry and refreshed when a page applies your preferences. |
Consent referencext_consent_ref_* | A random, signed reference links consent actions from this browser. Its expiry is set to 90 days when an action is recorded. |
Pending actions and tab updatesxt_consent_pending_*, xt_consent_signal_* | Local browser storage lets consent history retry after a connection problem and lets other open tabs notice a change. Pending entries are removed after the server handles them. The tab-update value remains until it is replaced or you clear site data. |
| Contact and application form state | Session storage can remember an opaque submission token and whether a form was accepted, so a refresh can show the receipt and avoid duplicate submissions. The managed contact form does not store your name, email, or message in this session storage. Storage is scoped to the browser tab's session; it can also be cleared when starting another submission. |
Browser settings can shorten these periods or prevent storage. Choices are specific to the website and browser. Using another browser or device, or clearing site data, may mean choosing again.
4. How consent history works
When you save a choice, we record the website, the time the server receives the action, your choices for each category, the previous recorded choices, the policy version, and whether you used the banner, preferences panel, footer, or floating button. A derived browser reference connects those actions. Earlier records may contain only the original all-or-nothing choice.
The consent history does not store your name, email address, IP address, or browsing history. It is a record of cookie choices. Separate website and server records are described in the Privacy Policy.
When you allow advertisements, their reporting uses daily totals and temporary event hashes to avoid counting the same event repeatedly. Our direct advertisements do not set a separate advertising cookie. This reporting is separate from consent history and from website visitor records.
System administrators can review the history and a separate log of changes to cookie settings. These records are kept for 90 days, then removed by the daily cleanup. This period applies to these logs, not to every record the website holds.
Your browser applies a saved choice immediately. If the server cannot be reached, the history entry is retried. A pending action for an outdated policy may be discarded and the current policy presented again.
5. Changing your mind
Open Cookie Settings in the footer. If the floating cookie button is visible, you can use that too. Change the category switches and choose Save My Preferences, or choose Reject All to turn off every optional category.
Withdrawing permission removes ads managed by this website's advertising controls immediately. Third-party code that has already loaded may continue until you reload or leave the page. Changing the setting does not erase information already received by a provider.
You can also remove cookies and local storage through your browser's site-data settings. Doing so may sign you out and reset your preferences. It does not automatically delete consent history or other records already stored on the server.
6. Questions and updates
For a question about cookies or a privacy request, use the Contact Us form. Tell us which website or feature you mean and what you would like us to check.
We update this policy when the cookie setup or its explanation changes. The date above identifies this revision. Where a change requires a fresh choice, the banner will ask you again.