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Effective Date: November 10, 2026
Last Updated: November 10, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how ForensisGroup, Inc. ("ForensisGroup," "we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on forensisgroup.com (the "Website"), the types of cookies we use, the information they may collect, and how you can manage your cookie preferences. This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, and protect personal information. Depending on your location and applicable law, certain cookies and similar technologies may be used only with your prior consent, while others may be used without consent where legally permitted.
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, web beacons, scripts, local storage, software development kits, link decoration or navigational tracking technologies, and other technologies that store information on or access information from a browser or device. For convenience, we refer to these collectively in this Cookie Policy as "cookies” or “similar technologies.”
Cookies may be set by us ("first-party cookies") or by third parties that provide services to us, such as analytics and advertising providers ("third-party cookies"). Whether a technology is first-party or third-party does not by itself determine whether consent or another legal requirement applies; what matters includes the technology’s purpose and how it processes information. Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser ("session cookies"), while others remain on your device until they expire or you delete them ("persistent cookies").
Some cookies and similar technologies may collect or generate information that is considered personal information under applicable law, such as your IP address, cookie or device identifiers, approximate location, browsing activity, advertising interactions, and information use to create or match advertising audiences. Where applicable law requires prior consent, we do not activate non-essential cookies or similar technologies until the required consent has been obtained. Where applicable law provides an opt-out right instead, we honor qualifying opt-out requests and preference signals as described below.
We use first-party and third-party cookies for the following purposes:
Essential website operation. Some cookies are necessary for our Website to function properly and securely. They support core features such as page navigation, security, load balancing, form submissions, and remembering your cookie consent choices. These technologies are used only to the extent necessary to provide, secure, or operate the Website or to remember privacy choices, and therefore may not be available for disabling through our consent tool where applicable law permits their use without consent.
Preferences. Some cookies remember choices you make on our Website, such as your consent settings, so that we can provide a more consistent experience when you return. Some preference technologies may be used without consent where applicable law permits this because they are necessary to provide a feature or remember a choice you have requested; others may require consent.
Analytics and performance. We use analytics cookies and similar tools, including Google Analytics and Hotjar, to understand how visitors find and use our Website, such as which pages are visited, how long visitors stay, and how they arrived at our Website. Hotjar may collect interaction data such as mouse or pointer movements, clicks, scrolling, pages views, and similar usage information to create session recordings and heatmaps. We configure Hotjar to suppress or mask text entered into form fields and do not intend for session recording tools to capture the contents of confidential case submissions, payment information, Social Security numbers, taxpayer identification numbers, bank account information, health information, or other sensitive information entered through Website forms. This helps us improve our content, services, and Website performance.
Marketing and client communications. We use marketing automation tools, including Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, to understand how visitors interact with our Website and communications. If you submit a form on our Website, click a link in an email from us, or otherwise identify yourself to us, these technologies may associate your subsequent Website activity with your contact record, subject to applicable law and your privacy choices. We do not use case materials or sensitive personal information for marketing automation or advertising.
Advertising. We and our advertising partners, including Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Reddit, may use cookies and similar technologies, such as the Google Ads tag, the Microsoft Advertising UET tag, the LinkedIn Insight Tag, and the Reddit Pixel, to measure the effectiveness of our advertising and to show you ads for ForensisGroup's services on other websites and platforms based on your previous visits to our Website. We may also use advertising-platform audience-matching services that compare identifiers, such as hashed email addresses, with information held by the platform in order to create or suppress advertising audiences, show advertising, or measure campaign effectiveness. Hashing or otherwise transforming an identifier does not necessarily cause the information to cease being personal information under applicable law.
Embedded content. Pages containing embedded YouTube content may involve requests to Google or YouTube and the use of cookies or similar technologies. Where applicable law requires prior consent, non-essential YouTube technologies should not be activated until the required consent has been obtained. Depending on the Website configuration, this may mean that embedded content is blocked or limited until you make a consent choice.
Where applicable law requires prior consent, we use analytics, session replay, marketing, advertising, and other non-essential cookies or similar technologies only after the required consent has been obtained. Where applicable law instead provides a right to opt out of certain processing, we provide the applicable opt-out controls and honor qualifying preference signals. You can accept, reject, or change your preferences at any time through our cookie consent tool, as described below. Third-party providers may process information collected through their technologies under their own privacy terms, and where applicable, under contractual terms with us. We encourage you to review the privacy information made available by those providers.
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as security, bot protection, load balancing, and storing your consent preferences. Cookie names, providers, purposes, and durations may change as our Website or third-party services are updated. The table below reflects the technologies identified during our most recent scan and review. We periodically rescan the Website and update this Policy as appropriate.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | 1 hour | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| cookieyes-consent | [Confirm via rescan] | Set by CookieYes to remember your cookie consent preferences so that they are respected on subsequent visits. |
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | 6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 6 months | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | Never Expires | The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. |
| __Secure-YNID | 6 months | YouTube cookie used to protect user security and prevent fraud, especially during the login process. |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | 6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to manage feature rollout and experimentation. It helps Google control which new features or interface changes are shown to users as part of testing and staged rollouts, ensuring consistent experience for a given user during an experiment. |
| __Secure-YEC | [Confirm via rescan] | YouTube cookie associated with embedded video functionality. [Confirm description via rescan.] |
Cookie classification may depend on how the embedded service is configured and the purpose for which the technology operates. We classify technologies based on their actual use on our Website, not solely on the vendor’s default description.
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Some analytics tools also create session recordings and heatmaps of how visitors use the Website.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _hjTLDTest | session | To determine the most generic cookie path that has to be used instead of the page hostname, Hotjar sets the _hjTLDTest cookie to store different URL substring alternatives until it fails. |
| _hjCookieTest | session | Hotjar sets this cookie to check whether the Website can use cookies. |
| _hjSessionUser_* | 1 year | Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. |
| _hjSession_* | 1 hour | Hotjar sets this cookie to hold current session data, so that subsequent requests within the session window are attributed to the same session. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie assigns a randomly generated identifier to distinguish unique visitors. |
| visitor_id* | [Confirm via rescan] | Set by Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) to store a unique visitor identifier and, if you submit a form or click a link in one of our emails, to associate your Website activity with your contact record. |
| YSC | session | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
Marketing cookies and similar technologies help us understand how known contacts interact with our Website and communications and may associate Website activity with a contact record for marketing, lead management, and communications purposes.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| pardot | past | Set by Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) to maintain a session. [Confirm description via rescan.] |
Advertisement cookies and similar technologies are used to measure advertising effectiveness, attribute conversations, create or match advertisting audiences, support remarking, and show ads that may be based on your activity across websites or services.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Set by Google Ads (through Google Tag Manager) to store conversion information and measure the efficiency of advertising. |
| _rdt_uuid | 3 months | Reddit sets this cookie to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads. |
| bcookie | 1 year | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser IDs. |
| lidc | 1 day | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. |
| li_gc | 6 months | LinkedIn sets this cookie to store a visitor's consent regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. |
| li_sugr / UserMatchHistory / AnalyticsSyncHistory | [Confirm via rescan] | Set by the LinkedIn Insight Tag to match visitors with LinkedIn members for ad targeting, conversion tracking, and audience reporting. |
| _uetsid / _uetvid / MUID | [Confirm via rescan] | Set by the Microsoft Advertising UET tag to track visits and conversions and to support remarketing on Microsoft Advertising. |
Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.
Consent Preferences
You can change your cookie settings at any time by clicking the "Consent Preferences" link on this page. This will reopen our cookie consent banner, where you can update your preferences or withdraw your consent. Essential cookies cannot be disabled through the consent tool because they are necessary for the Website to function. Withdrawing or changing your consent will apply prospectively. It does not necessarily delete information already collected before your preference was changed, although you may have separate rights regarding that information under applicable privacy law. Where applicable law requires consent, it should be as easy to withdraw consent as to give it. We therefore make the Consent Preferences control available on the Website so that you can revisit your choices at any time.
Browser settings. Most web browsers also allow you to block or delete cookies through their settings. Please note that blocking all cookies may affect how our Website functions. The following links explain how to manage cookies in commonly used browsers:
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-sfri11471/mac
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox
Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09
If you use a different browser or a mobile device, please refer to the browser's or device manufacturer's support documentation.
Google tools. You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on ( https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout ) and manage personalized ads from Google through My Ad Center ( https://myadcenter.google.com ). You can also manage ad preferences for Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Reddit through the privacy or ad settings of your accounts on those platforms.These third-party controls are additional options and do not replace the privacy choices available directly through our Website.
Opt-out preference signals. Where applicable, we recognize the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal ( https://globalprivacycontrol.org ). Where applicable law requires us to recognize opt-out preference signals, including the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”), we treat a qualifying signal as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for the browser or device from which the signal is sent. This may result in suppression of advertising or tracking technologies that would otherwise involve sale, sharing, or targeted advertising. GPC does not substitute for affirmative consent where applicable law requires consent before non-essential cookies or similar technologies may be used. California consumers may also opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information by using the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” or equivalent privacy-choice link on our Website. Where required by applicable law, we will also honor opt-out rights for targeted advertising or sale available to residents of other U.S. states. Additional Information for EEA and UK visitors. If you access the Website from the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, applicable law may require us to obtain your consent before using certain cookies or similar technologies that are not strictly necessary or otherwise exempt. In those circumstances, we will not activate non-essential analytics, session-replay, marketing, advertising, or similar technologies until the required consent has been obtained.
You may give, refuse, or withdraw consent through our consent-management tool. Where technologies are used for more than one purpose, we assess whether each purpose is covered by an applicable exemption or requires consent.
Where the use of cookies or similar technologies also involves processing personal information, that processing is further described in our Privacy Policy.
Review. We periodically review and rescan the Website to identify cookies and similar technologies in use. Because vendors and Website functionality may change, the specific technologies, names, and durations listed in this Policy may be updated from time to time. We will update the “Last Updated” date when we make material changes.
Questions. If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at website@forensisgroup.com.