Privacy & Storage

Last updated: 19 September 2026

This website currently uses no cookies for public visitors and does not use advertising, marketing or third-party analytics cookies.

Limited first-party browser storage is used to provide specific website functionality.

Visitor identifier

Type: Local storage

Purpose: Stores a randomly generated pseudonymous identifier used to prevent duplicate Founder Intelligence measurements and associate mentoring disclaimer acknowledgements with a pseudonymous browser identifier.

Duration: Remains in the browser until local website data is cleared.

Article feedback

Type: Local storage

Purpose: Remembers that a visitor has already selected “Was this useful?” for a particular Founder Intelligence article and prevents repeated submissions from the same browser.

Duration: Remains until local website data is cleared.

Article view

Type: Session storage

Purpose: Prevents repeated article-view events caused by refreshing or reopening an article during the same browser session.

Duration: Browser/tab session.

Administrator authentication

The private website administration area uses browser local storage to maintain the administrator's authenticated session.

This functionality applies only to the website administrator and is not used to create accounts or profiles for public visitors.

No advertising or cross-site tracking

This website does not currently use:

• advertising cookies;
• marketing pixels;
• cross-site behavioural tracking;
• browser fingerprinting; or
• third-party visitor analytics.

Managing browser storage

You can remove locally stored website data through your browser's privacy or site-data settings. Removing this information may cause the website to treat your browser as a new visitor for article measurement or acknowledgement purposes.

Changes

The technologies used by this website may change as the site develops. This notice will be updated if additional storage technologies, analytics or tracking functionality are introduced.