Cookie Policy & Storage Notice
This document details the exact cookies, local storage objects, and session markers deployed across buruops.com, our technical justification under UK law, and your statutory rights to control, customize, or revoke consent at any moment.
1. Core Philosophy: Zero Invasive Ad-Tech
BuruOps Intelligence Lab is a technical engineering laboratory and institutional advisory capability. We operate with an uncompromising zero-surveillance standard:
- We never deploy third-party advertising trackers, Google AdSense, Meta/Facebook pixels, TikTok pixels, or behavioural profiling beacons.
- We never sell, trade, or share visitor browsing telemetry with commercial data brokers or marketing syndicates.
- We strictly honor your browser's
Do Not Track(DNT) andSec-GPC(Global Privacy Control) headers automatically.
2. What Are Cookies and Local Storage?
A cookie is a small text file transmitted by a web server to your browser, stored on your device, and sent back on subsequent HTTP requests. Local Storage and Session Storage are modern HTML5 browser mechanisms that allow state to persist on your client machine without being re-transmitted across every HTTP request header.
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR) as amended in the UK, cookies that are "strictly necessary" for providing a service explicitly requested by the user do not require prior consent. All other cookies (analytics, preferences, marketing) require informed, affirmative consent before they are stored on your device.
3. Comprehensive Technical Cookie Inventory
Below is the complete, audited register of cookies and client storage entities used across this platform:
| COOKIE / KEY | CATEGORY | EXPIRY | PURPOSE & LEGAL BASIS |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Strictly Necessary | Session (Transient) | Maintains secure server-side session state and binds anti-CSRF tokens to prevent unauthorized form forging attacks. PECR Reg 6(4)(b) exempt. |
| buruops_consent_state | Strictly Necessary | 365 Days | Stores your cookie preference choices (accept all, reject optional, custom toggles) so the consent banner does not reappear repeatedly. |
| buruops_cookie_consent (LocalStorage) | Strictly Necessary | Persistent | Client-side JSON record of your statutory consent receipt with cryptographic timestamp and chosen categories. |
| buruops_terminal_state (LocalStorage) | Functional (Optional) | Persistent | Remembers your minimized/expanded preferences for the interactive BuruOps Linux Telemetry Terminal widget. Only stored if Functional cookies are approved. |
| buruops_telemetry_id | Analytics (Optional) | 90 Days | Collects fully anonymized page response latencies, TLS handshake metrics, and HTTP 5xx error rates for infrastructure performance tuning. Disabled by default. |
4. How to Manage and Revoke Your Consent
You have complete autonomy over your consent choices. You can modify your preferences at any time through any of the following methods:
A. In-App Preference Modal
Trigger our granular consent manager at any time to toggle functional and telemetry categories on or off.
B. Reset All Cookies Now
Purge all BuruOps cookies and local storage tokens stored in your browser and trigger a fresh consent dialog.
5. Browser-Level Controls
You can also configure your web browser to block, filter, or delete all cookies automatically. Follow the official instructions for your browser:
- Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Third-party cookies.
- Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data.
- Mozilla Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.
- Microsoft Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Manage and delete cookies.
Note: Completely blocking strictly necessary session cookies will prevent the submission of technical inquiry forms and client audit intake requests on this website.
6. Regulatory Contact & Governance
For inquiries concerning our cookie implementation, PECR compliance, or technical storage methods, contact our compliance officer at: