Silicon Blade

Silicon Blade Consultants

Privacy and cookies

Updated 5 November 2026

Silicon Blade Consultants is responsible for the use of analytics on this website. For privacy questions or requests about your personal data, please contact us.

Optional website analytics

With your consent, we use Google Analytics 4, provided by Google, to understand which pages visitors use and improve our website. Analytics can process page addresses, interactions, browser and device information, and cookie identifiers. Connecting to Google also exposes your IP address to Google. We do not claim this information is anonymous.

Analytics is optional. We do not download or initialise Google Analytics or send analytics requests until you accept. Rejecting analytics does not restrict access to the website. We request analytics consent only; advertising storage, advertising user data and advertising personalisation remain denied.

You can choose “Reject optional” or “Accept analytics” in the banner. Use Cookie preferences here or in the footer at any time to change your choice. To withdraw consent, choose “Reject optional”. This disables further analytics collection on this browser without a reload and removes Google Analytics cookies accessible to this website where technically possible. It does not delete information already sent to Google.

We save your choice and the time you made it in your browser's local storage under siliconblade.cookie-consent. Acceptance and rejection are remembered for six calendar months, then we ask again. This preference storage is used only to remember your choice. Clearing browser storage or using another browser or device means you will be asked again. If preference storage is unavailable or invalid, analytics stays disabled.

Analytics cookies and retention

After acceptance, Google Analytics may set _ga and _ga_19YX6P4VX3 cookies to distinguish browsers and maintain session information. This website configures analytics cookies to expire after 180 days without extending their lifetime on each visit. Your consent expires separately after six calendar months. On expiry or rejection, the website attempts to remove accessible analytics cookies.

Cookie lifetime is separate from the retention of data already received by Google. The Google Analytics property's actual event and user data retention settings, Google Signals, enhanced measurement, data sharing, linked products and any other Google-side settings must be verified by Silicon Blade Consultants in the Analytics account. These account settings cannot be confirmed from this website's source code.

Google as a provider

Google processes analytics information under the applicable Google Analytics terms and data processing terms. See Google's privacy policy and how Google uses information from partner sites. Processing may involve countries outside the European Economic Area. The applicable Google contracting entity, processing locations and safeguards for international transfers must be verified against our current agreement and configuration; consent to cookies alone does not establish that those transfers are compliant.

Other website services

This analytics choice does not submit a contact request or subscribe you to a newsletter. Information you choose to send through those forms is handled for the corresponding request. This page describes the analytics controls; service-specific processing and retention details should be confirmed with us through the contact page. You may also raise a concern with your data protection authority, including the CNIL in France.