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Cookie policy
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The short version: this site sets cookies only if you accept analytics, and nothing is measured before that. You can change your mind on this page at any time.
The rest explains exactly what is stored, by whom, and for how long.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small file that a site asks your browser to keep, and that your browser sends back on every later request. Sites use cookies to remember a setting, to keep you signed in, or to follow you from one site to the next.
This site has no sign-in and no advertising. The only cookies here belong to our analytics, they load after you accept, and they do not follow you to other sites.
Cookies and browser storage are not the same thing
Browser storage, often called local storage, is a small notebook your browser keeps for one site. Unlike a cookie, it is never attached to a request and never sent to a server.
It stays on your device until you clear it, or until the site that wrote it removes it. That difference matters here, because your analytics choice is kept in storage rather than in a cookie.
What this site stores
Nothing at all is stored until you make a choice. Declining writes one entry in your browser's local storage, and nothing else. Accepting writes that entry and the two cookies below.
| Name | What it holds | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
hiraya.analytics-consent | One word: granted or denied | To honor the choice you made, and to stop asking you on every visit | Until you change it or clear your browser |
_ga | A random number for your browser, which is not a name and not an account | To tell a returning browser from a new one, so a reader is not counted twice | Up to 2 years, or until you withdraw consent |
_ga_<container id> | The state of your current visit, such as when it started | To group the pages you view into one visit rather than several | Up to 2 years, or until you withdraw consent |
The consent entry is strictly necessary, because it is the record of your own decision. It holds no identifier, it says nothing about you, and it never reaches us.
The two analytics cookies are not advertising cookies. Google's advertising features are switched off for this site, so there is no ad targeting, no fingerprinting and no cross-site identifier.
The analytics, and only after you accept
If you accept, the page loads Google Analytics 4, which Google runs for us. It records the page you viewed, the site you came from, your device type and an approximate location.
It sets the two cookies listed above. They hold a random number for your browser, so a second visit is not counted as a new reader.
It also records four moments, as counts with no content: that a contact message was sent, that a guide was requested, that a newsletter sign-up was made, and that the booking link was clicked. Each is one event against the same random number, so we can see which pages lead to those moments. It does not collect your name or your email address, or anything you typed. We do not join it to the message you sent us, we do not use it for advertising, and no profile of you is built.
The approximate location is worked out from your IP address, which is truncated before it is stored. Google acts on our instructions under a written agreement, and the privacy policy covers what that means.
We use it for one thing: to see which pages people read, so we know what to write next. Nobody buys it, and nobody outside our team sees it.
If you decline, no script is loaded and no request is made. Nothing is measured.
How to accept or decline
A panel appears at the foot of the screen on your first visit. It has two buttons, accept and decline, and both of them are real.
Declining does the same as ignoring it: nothing runs either way. The difference is that a recorded decline stops the panel from asking again.
How to change your choice
Use the button below. It clears the saved entry and opens the panel again, so you can choose either way.
Withdrawing takes effect at once. The cookies above are expired and analytics storage is denied again, so nothing further is kept. Reload the page to remove the script itself.
If you clear your browser
Clearing site data removes the entry and the analytics cookies, so the panel will ask again on your next visit. That is expected. Choose again and it is remembered again.
Another browser, another device or a private window has its own record, because nothing about your choice is ever sent to us.
Pages we link to
Our booking link opens a Google calendar page. That page belongs to Google, runs under Google's terms, and may set cookies of its own.
The same is true of any other site we link to. Your choice here applies to this site only, and it does not travel with you.
Changes to this policy
If we ever add something that stores data in your browser, we will ask you first and update this page before it runs.
The date at the top is the date of the last change. The privacy policy covers everything else we hold.
Questions about this page
Write to hello@hirayatalent.com and say which page you are asking about. A person reads it, and we reply within one business day.
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Hiraya Talent is a trade name of Hiraya Manawari Recruitment and Staffing LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company.