Cookie Policy

Effective Date: 2 July 2026

1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how Fortify Institute Limited ("Fortify Institute", "we", "our" or "us") uses cookies and similar technologies on our website.

Cookies help us provide a secure, reliable and user-friendly experience. They enable essential website functionality, remember your preferences, help us understand how our website is used and support the delivery of our services.

This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we process any personal data collected through our website.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit a website.

Cookies allow websites to recognise your device, remember your preferences and improve your browsing experience. Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser (session cookies), while others remain on your device until they expire or are deleted (persistent cookies).

3. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to:

• operate and secure our website;
• remember your cookie preferences;
• improve website performance and usability;
• understand how visitors use our website;
• support online forms and customer enquiries;
• enable learning and customer services;
• detect and prevent fraudulent or malicious activity; and
• comply with legal and regulatory requirements.

We do not use cookies to make solely automated decisions or to profile individuals in a way that produces legal or similarly significant effects.

4. Types of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the operation and security of our website. They cannot be switched off through our cookie preferences because the website would not function correctly without them.

Examples include cookies used for:

• website security;
• user session management;
• load balancing;
• consent management; and
• fraud prevention.

Functional Cookies

These cookies remember choices you make, such as language preferences or other settings, to improve your experience when you return to our website.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.

They allow us to measure website performance, identify popular content and improve our services by collecting information such as:

• pages visited;
• time spent on pages;
• navigation paths;
• browser type; and
• device information.

Analytics data is aggregated wherever possible and is not used to identify individual visitors.

Marketing Cookies

Where enabled, marketing cookies help us understand the effectiveness of our communications and advertising.

These cookies may be used by trusted third-party providers to measure campaign performance or deliver more relevant content.

Marketing cookies will only be used where you have provided your consent.

5. Third-Party Services

Our website may use trusted third-party services that place cookies on our behalf.

Depending on the services available on our website, these may include providers such as:

• Google Workspace and Google services;
• HubSpot;
• Stripe;
• Cloudflare;
• YouTube or other embedded media providers;
• LinkedIn; and
• our website hosting and security providers.

These organisations may collect information in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies.

We encourage you to review their privacy information where appropriate.

6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

When you first visit our website, you will be asked to choose your cookie preferences.

You may:

• accept all cookies;
• reject all non-essential cookies; or
• customise your preferences.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by selecting Cookie Settings on our website.

Most web browsers also allow you to manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the website.

7. Cookie Declaration

Our website uses a consent management platform that automatically scans and categorises the cookies used on this website.

The current list of cookies, including their purpose, duration and provider, is maintained automatically and displayed below this Cookie Policy.

Because this declaration is generated automatically, it always reflects the cookies currently in use.

8. Artificial Intelligence

Fortify Institute uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) responsibly within certain business processes and educational services.

Cookies are not used to make automated decisions about individuals, nor are they used to create profiles that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

Where AI technologies are used within our business, they are subject to human oversight and governed by our internal AI Governance & Responsible Use Policy.

9. Personal Data

Some cookies may collect information that constitutes personal data under applicable data protection law.

Where this occurs, we process that information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection legislation.

10. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in legislation, technology or our website.

Any updates will be published on this page together with the revised effective date.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact:

Fortify Institute Limited

Email: [email protected]

Please also refer to our Privacy Policy for further information about how we process personal data.