Cookie Policy & Consent Notice
Website cookies, similar technologies and the consent model.
Cookies & similar technologies
Software-Directory may use cookies, local storage, server-side identifiers or similar technologies for essential functionality, security, analytics and advertising. Non-essential technologies are not activated until the legally required consent has been obtained.
This build ships with no analytics or advertising cookies. Only strictly-necessary technologies (such as your saved consent choice) are used. The consent controls below are ready for any measurement or advertising technology added later.
Cookie categories
| Category | Purpose | Consent |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Authentication, security, load/session state, fraud prevention, saved consent settings and functions explicitly requested by the user. | Normally no consent where genuinely necessary. |
| Preferences | Remember optional settings not strictly necessary to provide the requested service. | Assessed under local rules; user-selected language/functional preferences may sometimes be exempt if used only for the requested function. |
| Analytics / measurement | Measure traffic, page use, campaigns and conversion. | Consent by default unless a specific configuration clearly falls within a recognised exemption and legal review confirms it. |
| Advertising | Ad personalisation, cross-site measurement or targeting. | Consent where required. Contextual ad delivery without tracking is still transparently disclosed. |
| Third-party media / embeds | External videos, widgets or other embedded services. | Blocked until consent where the third party sets non-essential cookies/trackers. |
Consent interface
- Before consent, non-essential cookies and trackers are blocked.
- “Accept”, “Reject” and an equally accessible preference mechanism are presented without making refusal materially harder than acceptance.
- You can change or withdraw preferences later through the persistent “Cookie settings” control.
- Consent is not bundled into unrelated terms, and continued browsing is not treated as consent.
- Consent records are retained and refreshed when purposes/vendors materially change or when required by law.
- The production cookie table is populated from an actual site scan; placeholder cookie names are not published as if real.
Production cookie table
| Cookie / technology | Provider / domain | Purpose | Duration | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sd-cookie-consent | software-directory.com (local storage) | Stores your cookie choice | Persistent (until cleared) | Strictly necessary |
No analytics or advertising technologies are currently in use. If any are added, this table is updated from a production scan before they are activated.