Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Bold and Code, Inc. ("Patentia", "we", "us") uses cookies and similar technologies on patentia.online and app.patentia.online.

The product application is stricter than this website. The technologies described below run on our marketing website. On app.patentia.online, where you sign in and where invention disclosures are handled, there are no advertising tags and no session recording of any kind. Page-level analytics loads there only if you have explicitly accepted it on that application, with no regional default, so if you have made no choice nothing loads. Nothing loads at all on pages reached through a link that carries a credential, such as password reset and account verification. Sign-up conversions are attributed to advertising through a measurement parameter on inbound links, described in section 4. Neither that measurement nor the analytics ever sees the content of a disclosure, a report, or any field you complete; the analytics records only which screens are opened. This is deliberate and it is the most important thing on this page.

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small data files placed on your device by a website. First-party cookies are set by the site you are visiting. Third-party cookies are set by another organisation whose technology runs on that site. Similar technologies include pixels, web beacons, and browser storage such as localStorage, and this Policy covers those too.

2. How our consent choice works, and its limits

We ask for your choice through a banner, and we store the result in your browser's localStorage under patentia_consent_v1.

It is a single accept-or-reject choice covering all non-essential technologies. We do not currently offer per-category selection. If you accept, all the technologies in sections 4 and 5 may run. If you reject, the technologies in section 5 do not load at all, and the Google technologies in section 4 switch to a restricted mode that sets no advertising or analytics cookies and redacts advertising identifiers.

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using the Cookie settings link in the footer.

Three limits we state plainly rather than leave you to discover:

Outside the European Economic Area and the UK, consent defaults to granted before you interact with the banner. You can accept or reject from the banner wherever you are, but outside those regions the technologies in section 4 run in their granted state until you choose. Inside the EEA and the UK, no non-essential cookie or similar technology is written or read until you accept, with two exceptions we would rather state than have you find, being the record of your own choice and the third parties in section 6 that load regardless of consent, one of which may set its own cookies if you interact with it. The strictly necessary items in section 3 are unaffected either way. Our tag manager itself loads on every page, and until you accept it runs in a restricted mode that writes no cookies, reads no identifiers, and redacts advertising identifiers.

We determine your region from your browser's time zone, not your IP address. European time zones, and the Atlantic and Cyprus zones associated with EEA territories, receive the consent-first experience, as does a device whose time zone we cannot read at all. A time zone we can read but do not recognise as European receives the default-granted experience. So if you are in the EEA but your device reports a non-European time zone, for example while travelling, you will receive the default-granted experience. If that applies to you, use the Cookie settings link to reject, and your choice will be respected.

Your choice here is recorded for this website only. app.patentia.online asks separately and keeps its own record, so a choice made here does not carry across to the application, or the other way round. You can change the application's setting at any time from Cookie settings in the application's account menu.

3. Strictly necessary

These cannot be switched off and do not require consent.

Our edge network may also set short-lived cookies such as __cf_bm to distinguish automated traffic from human visitors and to protect sign-in.

4. Google technologies (analytics and advertising)

These run on the marketing website through Google Tag Manager (container GTM-NFRSH9XX). When you reject, Google Consent Mode places them in a restricted state: they do not write these cookies and advertising identifiers are redacted.

One row in the table below is the exception, and it is marked. The product application does not use this tag manager and is not governed by the choice you make here. It loads its own analytics directly, only where you have accepted it on the application itself.

Analytics

The two stream identifiers, _ga_T8D6ZVP8VY and _ga_3BQK96H4WF, belong to the same Google Analytics property as separate data streams, one for the website and one for the application.

Advertising

We use Google Ads conversion tracking (AW-16720186427) to measure whether an advertisement led to a demo request or a sign-up. Our advertising links to the application carry a Google measurement parameter (_gl) so that a visit is attributed correctly across the two domains.

5. Non-Google technologies

These are blocked entirely, not merely restricted, unless you accept.

Microsoft Clarity — session recording

We use Microsoft Clarity (project vmix7eqfrx) on the marketing website only. Clarity records how visitors interact with our pages, including mouse movement, scrolling and clicks, to help us find usability problems.

Clarity does not run on app.patentia.online and does not observe invention disclosures, reports or anything you enter into the product. It runs only where public marketing pages are served. It requires your analytics consent, and it does not load if you reject.

LinkedIn Insight Tag — advertising

We use the LinkedIn Insight Tag (partner 9587585) to measure the effectiveness of our LinkedIn advertising. It requires your advertising consent and does not load if you reject.

6. Third parties that load regardless of your choice

We would rather tell you this than have you find it.

Four third parties are elements of our web pages rather than tags behind the consent gate, so they load even if you reject. Each receives your IP address and browser user-agent, because that is inherent to requesting a file from another server. None of them receives anything you type on our pages, although the demo scheduler receives what you enter into its own booking form if you choose to use it.

If you would prefer none of these to load, browser-level blocking or an extension is currently the only reliable way.

7. Cookies you may still have from technologies we no longer use

If you visited us before mid-2026, your browser may still hold cookies from tools we have since stopped using: Hotjar (_hjSessionUser_5325531), Intercom (intercom-device-id-*, intercom-id-*) and RudderStack (rl_anonymous_id, rl_session, rl_page_init_*).

Nothing on our site sets these any more. They persist only because cookies outlive the technology that created them. You can remove them by clearing cookies for patentia.online in your browser.

8. Controlling cookies in your browser

You can accept or refuse cookies through your browser settings. Consult the help pages for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge or Opera. Blocking all cookies may prevent parts of the Services from working.

You can opt out of Google Analytics across all websites using Google's opt-out browser add-on. Advertising networks also offer opt-outs through the Digital Advertising Alliance, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance.

9. Other tracking technologies

Pixels and web beacons, small image files carrying a unique identifier, may be used alongside cookies to understand navigation patterns. On this website they depend on cookies, so refusing cookies limits them too.

Marketing email we send may carry an open and click measurement pixel. A choice stored in your browser cannot govern an image loaded by your mail client, so we ask for that separately when you subscribe and it does not run if you decline. You can also stop it using the unsubscribe link in any message.

10. Changes

This Policy is a factual inventory of the technologies in use, so we update it as soon as they change rather than waiting out a notice period. Changes to the commitments we make to you are governed instead by the notice provisions in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. The date at the top shows when this Policy was last revised.

11. Contact

Questions about this Policy, cookies or your privacy: privacy@patentia.online.

Bold and Code, Inc., 1111B S Governors Ave, STE 23343, Dover, DE 19904, United States.

See also our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.