Cookie Notice
About this notice
This Cookie Notice explains how Interlock B.V. (“Interlock”, “we”, “us”) uses cookies and similar technologies on this website. They help us remember your preferences, analyse website traffic, and measure our marketing. This notice should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Notice, which explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data, and your rights regarding that data.
We follow developments in privacy law and regulation closely. When we make changes, we update this notice accordingly; the latest version and its date always appear at the top of this page.
What are cookies
Cookies are small text files sent from a website to your computer or mobile device, unique to your browser or device. Session cookies last only while your browser is open and are deleted automatically when you close it. Persistent cookies last until you or your browser delete them, or until they expire; the time until expiry is the retention period, which we set per item depending on its function. Similar technologies, such as localStorage, store small entries in your browser in much the same way without being sent with every request.
Types of cookies we use
We distinguish three categories on this site:
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Preferences you explicitly set: the display mode you chose with the theme button, and your answer to the cookie banner itself. These are required for the site to honour your choices and do not need consent. |
| Analytics | Traffic measurement through Cloudflare Web Analytics, which works without cookies, device storage, or fingerprinting: it counts page views, referrers and countries without building a profile of you. |
| Marketing | The LinkedIn Insight Tag and the Google Ads tag, which measure which campaigns reach payments professionals and let us show relevant material on those platforms. These load only after you accept the cookie banner. |
This website has no login and no customer accounts, so it sets no authentication or security cookies. We do not use browser fingerprinting.
The identifiers we set
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
interlock-theme | This site (localStorage) | Keeps the display mode you chose | Until cleared | Strictly necessary |
interlock-consent | This site (localStorage) | Remembers your consent choice | Until cleared | Strictly necessary |
li_fat_id | Attributes site visits to LinkedIn campaigns and builds matched audiences | 30 days | Marketing — consent required | |
_gcl_au | Google Ads | Stores an ad-click identifier for conversion measurement | 90 days | Marketing — consent required |
Third-party cookies
The marketing cookies above come from two third parties, chosen because our audience is professional and our campaigns run on their platforms. When you consent to marketing cookies, you also consent to the processing of the resulting data by these providers in accordance with their own policies:
- LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company). The Insight Tag measures campaign performance and builds matched audiences. See LinkedIn's cookie policy.
- Google (Google Ireland Limited). The Google Ads tag measures conversions from our advertising. For detail on how Google uses data, see Google's business data responsibility site.
The pixels may also set cookies on the providers' own domains (linkedin.com, google.com), governed by their notices. Cloudflare, which provides our cookieless traffic analytics, processes your IP address transiently to deliver the measurement and stores nothing on your device.
How cookies are used for advertising
Marketing cookies (and related ad technology such as pixels and tags) help us market more effectively to the professionals we and our advertising partners believe may be interested in Interlock, measure how our campaigns perform, and know when content has been shown to you. They are limited to this website — Interlock's network services for participating institutions set no marketing cookies.
What you can do to block or remove cookies
Marketing cookies load only with your prior consent, which we ask for when you first visit. You can accept or decline in the banner — declining changes nothing about how the site works — and you can change your choice at any time:
Nearly all web browsers also let you manage or delete cookies, in some cases per site; see your browser's documentation. To opt out of Google's advertising cookies across the web, visit Google's ads settings; for LinkedIn, see the advertising controls in your LinkedIn settings.
Do Not Track signals
This site does not collect information about your online activity over time and across third-party websites, so “Do Not Track” browser signals have nothing here to switch off: we place cookies only in accordance with this notice and the preferences you indicate through our banner.
Contact
Questions about this notice: Interlock.DPO@gmail.com. See also our Privacy Notice.