Cookie Policy
Version 4.0 · 21 October 2026
Related: Privacy Policy · Privacy request form · Legal Center
This policy lists the cookies and similar browser storage used on feedmatchgroup.com by FeedMatch Group, operated from the Republic of Cyprus. It supplements our Privacy Policy.
1. Your choice
- In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, and whenever we cannot determine your country, the optional tools below do not load until you choose. The banner offers Accept all, Reject all and Preferences with equal weight. Closing or ignoring it keeps optional tools off.
- Elsewhere, optional measurement runs by default and you can switch it off.
- To determine the region, your browser asks our hosting provider for your country code only; we do not store it.
- You can change or withdraw your choice at any time: (also at the bottom of every page). When you withdraw, we delete the Google cookies set on our domain and reload the page so the tags stop. Withdrawal does not affect measurement that took place before it.
2. Necessary storage (always on)
These items are needed for features you use and do not track you across sites.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| fm_consent (+ fm_consent_v1 copy) | First-party cookie / local storage | Remembers your cookie choice, the notice version and the time you chose | 180 days |
| sb-…-auth-token | Local storage | Keeps you signed in (only if you sign in) | Until you sign out |
| feedmatch.lang, feedmatch.tx.v4.* | Cookie / local storage | Your language and stored page translations | Language cookie 1 year |
| feedmatch.auth.intent, fm_portal_ui_lang, fm_portal_region, fm_supplier_region, sidebar_state | Local storage / cookie | Account type during sign-up, portal language/region and layout | Until cleared (sidebar 7 days) |
| Form and tool drafts (e.g. fm_home_wizard_v1, fm_feed_mill_project_draft_v1, feedmatch-plan-draft-v1, feedmatch:rfq-prefill, feedmatch:mill-estimator, calculator and checklist inputs) | Session / local storage | Keeps what you typed in a form or calculator so you do not lose it; consent boxes are never pre-saved as ticked | Session, or until you clear or submit |
| feedmatch-planner-submission-v1, fm_vi_request_id | Local storage | Prevents a request being sent twice and shows its progress | Until cleared |
| feedmatch.chat.messages.v2, feedmatch.chat.position, smg.tip.seen | Local / session storage | Site assistant conversation and position, if you use it | Until cleared |
| fm-pwa-install, fm-dock-pos, fm-dock-hidden, fm-fin-banner | Local / session storage | Remembers dismissed prompts and the contact button position | Until cleared / session |
3. Optional storage (only with your choice where required)
These are provided by Google (Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC), which may process data in the United States. The tag containers can load further Google tags configured in our accounts; we place all of them in the "Advertising" category so they never load before that choice.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics (_ga, _ga_*) | Google cookies (category: Analytics) | Counts visits and pages viewed, how visitors arrive | Up to 2 years (Google default) |
| Google Ads (_gcl_*, and Google's own cookies) | Google cookies (category: Advertising) | Measures whether an ad led to a request and lets Google show our ads again to past visitors (remarketing lists); when you send a request, your email/phone are hashed in your browser for conversion matching | Typically 90 days (Google default) |
| Google Tag Manager (GTM-NDTJWQBR, GTM-T5JT2JF2) | Tag containers (category: Advertising) | Load Google measurement tags configured in our Google accounts | Depends on the tags loaded |
| fm_first_source, fm_landing_page, fm_last_cta | Session storage (category: Analytics) | How you reached the site and which button you used, attached to measurement and to a request you send | Session |
4. Browser controls
You can also delete or block cookies in your browser. Blocking necessary storage may stop sign-in or keep forms from remembering your input.
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal and you have not made a choice in Cookie settings, we treat it as an opt-out of the Advertising category: Google Ads and Google Tag Manager stay off. An explicit choice you make in Cookie settings takes precedence. See also Privacy & Compliance.
5. Contact
Questions: privacy request form or privacy@feedmatchgroup.com.
Changelog
Current version 4.0 · Last updated . Prior versions available on request from legal@feedmatchgroup.com.
- Version 4.0
- Listed every cookie and browser-storage item in use.
- Optional Google Analytics and Google Ads/Tag Manager tags now wait for a choice in the EEA, UK and Switzerland.
- Added Accept/Reject/Preferences and footer Cookie settings for later changes.
- Removed the inaccurate Do-Not-Track and no-advertising statements.
- Version 3.0
- Removed advertising and retargeting cookie categories (none in use).
- Clarified strictly-necessary, preference and analytics categories.
- Documented Do-Not-Track handling.
- Version 2.0
- Split third-party cookies by processing purpose.
- Version 1.0
- Initial publication of Cookie Policy.