This Cookie Policy explains how Devsinc LLC ("Devsinc," "we," "our," or "us") uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit www.devsinc.com and related websites (collectively, the "Site").
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browser or device when you visit a website. Cookies and similar technologies help websites operate securely, remember preferences, understand how visitors interact with the Site, measure performance, and support certain analytics and marketing activities.
Similar technologies may include pixels, web beacons, local storage, tags, and other technologies that store or access information on your device.
How We Use Cookies
We may use cookies and similar technologies to operate and secure the Site, remember preferences, understand Site usage, measure performance, improve user experience, analyse traffic, measure the effectiveness of marketing activities, and protect the Site against fraud, abuse, and security threats.
Types of Cookies We Use
Essential
Required for core website functionality, security, form submissions and saving your privacy preferences.
Because these technologies are necessary for the Site to work and to record your privacy choice, they operate without consent where permitted by applicable law. They are never used for advertising.
Functional & Preferences
Supports optional website preferences and functionality, such as language or interface preferences, without using them for advertising.
This category is part of our consent architecture but no technology on the Site currently uses it, so it is not shown as a choice in Cookie Settings. If that changes, it will appear as its own toggle and this Policy will be updated first.
Analytics & Attribution
Helps us understand traffic sources, page performance and visitor interactions, and measure campaign attribution so we can improve the website experience.
This includes measuring which campaign, referral or search result brought you to the Site, recorded as a first-touch and a most-recent-touch record.
Marketing & Advertising
Helps us measure advertising performance and understand visits and conversions from advertising platforms.
These technologies may be provided by third-party advertising platforms and may be used to measure the results of our advertising.
Social Media & Embedded Media
Supports optional social and media integrations and helps measure engagement with social or embedded content.
Embedded players are not loaded when a page opens. Without permission for this category, selecting an embedded video opens it on the provider's own site in a new tab instead.
Third-Party Technologies
We may use third-party technology providers to support website security, analytics, customer communications, advertising, and performance measurement.
These providers may place or access cookies or similar technologies on your device in accordance with their own privacy and cookie practices.
Depending on the services enabled on the Site, these providers may include technology, analytics, advertising, customer-management, and security platforms.
A current description of the specific technologies in use, their purposes, providers, and categories is set out in the next section.
Technologies Currently in Use
The following non-essential technologies are used on the Site. None of them load, run, or set anything on your device unless you accept them — see Your Cookie Choices below.
| Technology | Provider | Category | Purpose | Cookies / storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consent preference | Devsinc (first-party) | Essential | Stores the privacy choice you make on this page so we do not ask again on every visit, and so your choice can be applied before anything optional loads. | Browser local storage: devsinc-consent. Not a cookie, and never sent to us or to any third party. |
| Form submission | HubSpot, Inc. | Essential — core functionality | Delivers a form you chose to fill in to our customer relationship management system. This is the service you asked for, so it continues to work with every optional category switched off. | No cookie is required to submit a form. |
| Google Tag Manager | Google LLC | Infrastructure (container) | A tag-management container used to manage analytics and advertising measurement tags. The lead-event parameters managed in it contain technical context, such as the form and page involved, not the contents entered into form fields. Google Ads Enhanced Conversions are described separately below. | Sets no cookies of its own. |
| Google Analytics 4 | Google LLC | Analytics & Attribution | Measures how visitors use the Site — pages viewed, referral source, and aggregate behaviour — so we can improve it. | _ga, _ga_* |
| Ahrefs Web Analytics | Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. | Analytics & Attribution | Measures aggregate Site traffic and referral sources. | None — this provider sets no cookies and does not identify individual visitors. |
| HubSpot visitor tracking | HubSpot, Inc. | Analytics & Attribution | Recognises returning visitors and links Site activity to a contact record. This is separate from form submission above and is never treated as essential. | hubspotutk, __hstc, __hssc, __hssrc |
| Campaign attribution | Devsinc (first-party) | Analytics & Attribution | Records which campaign, referral or advertising click brought you to the Site, as a first-touch and a most-recent-touch record, so an enquiry can be credited to the right source. Campaign parameters (such as utm_source and utm_campaign) are recorded only with Analytics & Attribution. Advertising click identifiers (gclid, gbraid, wbraid, dclid, fbclid, li_fat_id, ttclid, msclkid) are recorded only when both Analytics & Attribution and Marketing & Advertising are on. | Browser local storage: devsinc-attribution-first, devsinc-attribution-last. Campaign parameters and, where permitted, advertising click identifiers only; no name, email, message or other form-field content. |
| Meta Pixel | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Marketing & Advertising | Measures the results of Devsinc advertising and allows advertising to be shown to people who have visited the Site. | _fbp. Also browser local storage: lastExternalReferrer, lastExternalReferrerTime — the site you arrived from and when. Both are removed when you withdraw this category. |
| Google Ads and conversion linker | Google LLC | Marketing & Advertising | Google Ads measures advertising performance, records the advertising click identifier when you arrive from a Google advertisement so that a successful sales enquiry can be attributed to that advertisement, and supports remarketing where consent permits. With Marketing & Advertising enabled, Enhanced Conversions may process the email entered on a sales enquiry form by hashing it with SHA-256 before it is sent to Google to improve conversion measurement. Careers application forms are excluded from this Enhanced Conversions collection. When Marketing & Advertising is off, advertising storage and user-provided email data are not enabled. If Analytics & Attribution remains on, consent-aware Google tags may still send limited cookieless measurement signals. | _gcl_aw, and the other _gcl_* cookies Google uses for different click sources. Also browser local storage: _gcl_ls. Written by the Google tag only when you arrive from an advertisement, and removed when you withdraw this category. |
| YouTube | Google Ireland Limited | Social Media & Embedded Media | Plays the embedded episode on the Technologist podcast page. The player is not loaded when the page opens — the tile is a still image until you press play. Without permission for this category, pressing it opens YouTube in a new tab instead. | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, and the other cookies youtube-nocookie.com sets once playback starts. |
Retention periods for these cookies are set by the providers named above and may change without notice to us. Current durations are published in each provider's own cookie documentation.
Devsinc's own consent record is stored in your browser's local storage, not in a cookie, and is not transmitted to us or to any third party.
Regional Default Settings
What happens before you make a choice depends on where you are visiting from. We determine this at country level only, from the network request itself. We do not store your IP address for this purpose, we do not record a precise location, and we do not infer your country from your language, the page URL, your timezone or the site you arrived from.
United Kingdom and EEA
Every optional category — Analytics & Attribution, Marketing & Advertising, and Social Media & Embedded Media — starts switched off and stays off until you turn it on. Until you choose, analytics and advertising storage remain denied and no campaign or advertising click identifier is stored. Consent-aware Google tags may still send limited cookieless consent or measurement signals (Google Consent Mode); these signals do not enable analytics or advertising cookies. The same applies in any region after you choose Reject Optional.
United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan
Optional categories start switched on, and you can turn any of them off at any time from Cookie Settings. This is an opt-out arrangement rather than a request for prior permission.
Anywhere else, or where the country cannot be determined
The stricter settings above apply. A country is only treated as opt-out if it has been explicitly reviewed and added to our configuration, so an unlisted or unresolved location always receives the more protective default.
Our consent controls for visitors in the UK and EEA are designed with applicable UK and EU privacy requirements and relevant regulatory guidance in mind. This is a description of how the controls are built; it is not a claim of certification, approval or endorsement by any regulator.
Global Privacy Control
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we detect it and apply it. Marketing & Advertising, and social tracking used for advertising, remain switched off for the processing that signal covers, and the advertising consent signals we pass to Google reflect that restricted state.
This signal takes priority over our regional opt-out defaults: in a country where optional tracking would otherwise start switched on, a Global Privacy Control signal keeps advertising categories off. When we detect one, the banner and preferences panel say so. We do not examine anything else about your browser in order to apply it.
Technologies Our Consent Controls Support But That Are Not in Use
Our consent architecture includes categories and controls for advertising and social technologies that are not currently installed on the Site. They are listed here so the categories in Cookie Settings are understandable, not because they are running.
None of the following is installed, connected or collecting anything today. If any of them is added, it will be governed by the category shown above, this Policy will be updated first, and visitors in strict regions will not be tracked by it without permission.
- LinkedIn Insight Tag — Marketing & Advertising
- Meta Conversions API (server-side) — Marketing & Advertising
- TikTok Pixel — Marketing & Advertising
- Microsoft Advertising (Bing) UET — Marketing & Advertising
Your Cookie Choices
Essential technologies are always active. Every other technology listed above follows the category you choose, and the regional defaults described above determine the starting position.
The banner offers Accept All, Reject Optional and Customize Settings . Accept All enables every optional category permitted by the applicable policy. Reject Optional switches all of them off and leaves only Essential active — the Site, and every contact and enquiry form on it, continues to work normally. Customize Settings lets you decide category by category and save with Save Preferences.
Your choice is stored in this browser and can be changed or withdrawn at any time:
Opens the preferences panel. It is also available from Cookie Settings in the footer of every page, so you never need to clear your browser storage to change your mind.
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to view, delete, or block cookies. Restricting certain cookies may affect some Site functionality.
Switching a category off takes effect immediately: we stop collecting for that category, update the consent signals we send to Google, tell the advertising and visitor-tracking providers directly to stop, and delete the related information we hold in your browser. One analytics provider offers no way to be switched off while a page is open, so we reload the page to unload it — if you have started filling in a form, we wait until your input is safe before doing so, and everything else has already stopped in the meantime. We cannot retroactively delete information a third-party provider has already received; where you want that removed, contact the provider or contact us and we will help.
How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device
Cookies may be either session cookies, which generally expire when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a defined period or until they are deleted.
Retention periods vary depending on the cookie's purpose and the provider responsible for the technology.
We keep your consent choice for 180 days, after which we ask again. We also ask again if we materially change what the categories cover. Retention periods for third-party cookies are set by the providers named above and are published in their own documentation; we do not restate them here because we cannot guarantee they are current.
Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, technologies, service providers, business practices, or applicable legal requirements.
When we update this Policy, we will revise the "Last updated" date above.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies and similar technologies, please contact:
Devsinc LLC
Email: inquiry@devsinc.com
You may also contact us through our website contact page.