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This site sets no cookies at all unless you accept them. There are two optional cookies, both for one purpose — remembering who introduced you to us — and declining changes nothing about how the site works.
Last updated September 2026
The optional cookies
Some people arrive here through a referral link shared by a partner — a coach, a therapist, a past client, someone who thinks this work would help you. If you later decide to work with us, we'd like that partner to get credit for the introduction.
Remembering which partner sent you means storing a short code on your device for a year. That's the whole thing. It holds a partner code and a random number, not your name, not your email, and nothing about what you read.
The second works the same way for events. If you reach us from a page for a talk we gave — like Tech Alley — we remember which event for 90 days, so we know which talks actually help people. It holds the event's short name and nothing else.
Both are optional because they're for our benefit, not yours. Decline and every page still works exactly the same.
What's stored, in full
| What | Purpose | How long | Optional? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Referral code | Credits the partner who referred you | 1 year | Yes — off unless you accept |
| Event name | Remembers which event page you came from | 90 days | Yes — off unless you accept |
| Your cookie choice | Remembers your answer so we stop asking | 12 months | No |
| Assessment progress | Keeps your name, email and place in a quiz (or an event page's form) so a refresh doesn't wipe it | Until you clear your browser | No |
| Staff sign-in | Keeps our own team signed in to the site's admin dashboard. Never set for visitors | 30 days | No |
Only the first two are cookies. The rest is browser storage, which never gets sent to our servers — it stays on your device to make the thing you asked for work.
There is no analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixel, and no third-party cookie on this site. If that ever changes, this table changes with it and we'll ask you again.
Changing your mind
Any time, in either direction, with no penalty:
Choosing to decline also deletes both cookies if you'd previously accepted them. Clearing cookies in your browser works too, and we'll simply ask again next visit.
Other sites
Booking a call sends you to Calendly, and paying for something sends you to Stripe. Those are separate companies with their own cookies and their own policies. We can tell you what happens on our site; theirs is theirs.
Questions
Email jason@beyondthemanbox.com. See also our privacy policy, which covers the information you actively give us — assessment answers, email signups — rather than what's stored on your device.