Last Updated: April 21, 2025
This Cookie Policy explains how OsaBox Limited ("OsaBox," "we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at osabox.co ("Website") and when you use our HR platform and services ("Services"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies are stored on your device's browser and contain information that can later be read by the website that issued the cookie.
In addition to cookies, we may use other similar technologies such as web beacons (also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs), local storage, and mobile device identifiers. These technologies work in a similar way to cookies and allow us to monitor and improve our Website and Services.
Throughout this policy, we refer to all of these technologies as "cookies."
2. Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several reasons:
- To ensure the proper functioning of our Website and Services
- To remember your preferences and settings
- To analyze how visitors use our Website and Services to help us improve performance and user experience
- To understand your interests and provide more relevant content and advertisements
- To protect against fraudulent activity and improve security
Some cookies are essential for our Website and Services to function properly, while others are optional but help us provide a better experience.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
The cookies we use can be classified into the following categories:
4. Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the Website and Services to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation, access to secure areas, and maintaining user sessions. These cookies do not collect information about you for marketing purposes or track your internet usage. The Website and Services cannot function properly without these cookies, so they are always enabled.
Examples of how we use essential cookies include:
- Recognizing when you are signed in to your account
- Maintaining your session and security
- Remembering information you've entered on forms when navigating between pages
- Distributing server load to ensure a consistent experience
6. Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow our Website and Services to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, some or all of these services may not function properly.
Examples of how we use functionality cookies include:
- Remembering your language and region preferences
- Remembering your settings and preferences for future visits
- Providing personalized content
- Enabling features like video playback or live chat
7. Targeting and Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver content that is more relevant to you and your interests. They may be used to deliver targeted advertising or to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They also help us measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies remember that you have visited our Website and may be shared with other organizations such as advertisers. This means you may see advertisements from us on other websites because these cookies track your browsing habits.
Examples of how we use targeting and advertising cookies include:
- Showing you relevant advertisements based on your interests
- Limiting the number of times you see a particular advertisement
- Measuring the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns
- Tailoring our marketing efforts to your needs
9. Cookies We Use
The specific cookies we use on our Website and Services may change from time to time, but here are some examples of the cookies we currently use:
| Name |
Type |
Purpose |
Duration |
| session |
Essential |
Maintains user session and security |
Session |
| osabox_auth |
Essential |
Authenticates logged-in users |
30 days |
| osabox_prefs |
Functionality |
Stores user preferences |
1 year |
| _ga |
Performance |
Google Analytics - Used to distinguish users |
2 years |
| _gid |
Performance |
Google Analytics - Used to distinguish users |
24 hours |
| _gat |
Performance |
Google Analytics - Used to throttle request rate |
1 minute |
| osabox_campaign |
Targeting |
Tracks marketing campaign effectiveness |
30 days |
| cookieConsent |
Essential |
Stores cookie consent preferences |
1 year |
10. Third-Party Cookies
Some of the cookies on our Website and Services are placed by third parties such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other service providers. These third parties may use cookies to collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites. We do not control these third-party cookies and recommend that you check the privacy and cookie policies of these third parties to understand how they use your information.
Third-party services we use that may place cookies include:
- Google Analytics - For website analytics and performance measurement
- Google Ads - For advertising and remarketing
- Facebook - For social media integration and advertising
- LinkedIn - For social media integration and advertising
- Intercom - For customer support chat functionality
- Stripe - For payment processing
11. How to Control Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences in the following ways:
Cookie Settings
When you first visit our Website, you will be presented with a cookie banner that allows you to accept or decline cookies. You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our Website.
Browser Settings
You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website though your access to some functionality and areas may be restricted. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
Here are links to instructions for managing cookies in common browsers:
Do Not Track
Some browsers have a "Do Not Track" feature that signals to websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. As there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret the Do Not Track signal, our Website does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals.
Opt-Out of Specific Third-Party Cookies
You can opt-out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
For other third-party cookies used for advertising, you can opt out via:
12. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the updated version on our Website and indicate the last update date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
8. Social Media Cookies
These cookies are set by social media services that we have added to our Website to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other websites and building a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies, you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.