Strictly necessary technologies may operate without optional consent, because the Website cannot provide the requested function securely without them. This applies to every visitor regardless of location.

Google Tag Manager and any analytics or marketing tag attached to it, along with the website-builder analytics script, are treated as non-essential. They are disabled by default and will not load until a visitor makes an affirmative choice to accept them through the cookie banner shown on first visit. This applies to every visitor, not only visitors in a particular country, Opvia is choosing to run one consent standard for all Website traffic rather than showing different visitors a different experience, because doing so is simpler to implement correctly and avoids the risk of misjudging a visitor’s actual location. The banner will:

● clearly distinguish Strictly Necessary (always on) from Analytics and Marketing categories (off by default);

● provide equally prominent “Accept All,” “Reject Non-Essential,” and “Manage Preferences” options, with no preselected optional categories;

● allow the choice to be changed at any time through a persistent “Cookie Preferences” link in the Website footer; and

● record and honour a rejection in the same way it would record acceptance.

For clarity, this consent requirement is unrelated to, and does not depend on, whether a given visitor is a prospective client, a candidate, or unconnected to Opvia’s business, and it is unrelated to Opvia’s own employment law obligations to its India-based staff, which are addressed entirely separately in the Privacy Policy.