Last updated: September 18, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how StartupSpotting.com uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.
It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files or pieces of information that websites can store on your device when you visit them.
Cookies can serve different purposes. Some are necessary for a website to function properly, while others may be used to remember preferences, measure website usage, provide additional functionality or support advertising.
Cookies may be temporary and disappear when you close your browser, or they may remain on your device for a specified period.
2. How StartupSpotting Uses Cookies
StartupSpotting may use cookies and similar technologies to:
Operate and secure the website
Remember your preferences
Remember your cookie choices
Prevent spam, fraud and abuse
Support website forms and functionality
Understand how visitors use the website
Measure website traffic and performance
Improve the website and its content
Support advertising or measure advertising performance if advertising is introduced
The cookies and technologies used may change as StartupSpotting develops.
Where required by applicable law, non-essential cookies will not be stored or accessed until you have given your consent.
3. Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies are cookies required for the website or a service requested by the visitor to work correctly.
They may be used for purposes such as:
Website security
Network management
Form functionality
Session management
Fraud and abuse prevention
Remembering cookie preferences
Maintaining essential website functionality
Because these cookies are necessary for the operation of the website or a service you request, they may not require consent where permitted by applicable law.
Disabling necessary cookies through your browser may cause parts of StartupSpotting to stop working correctly.
4. Analytics Cookies
StartupSpotting may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors use the website.
Analytics can help us understand information such as:
How many people visit StartupSpotting
Which pages and articles are viewed
Which pages are most popular
How visitors reach the website
How visitors navigate the website
General device and browser information
Approximate geographic information
How long visitors interact with pages
General website performance
This information can help us understand our audience and improve StartupSpotting.
Where analytics cookies or similar technologies require consent, they will not be activated until you have provided that consent.
If analytics services are added or changed, information about the relevant cookies and providers will be made available through this Cookie Policy and/or the website's cookie settings.
5. Advertising Cookies
StartupSpotting may display advertising now or in the future.
Advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:
Displaying advertisements
Measuring advertising performance
Measuring interactions with advertisements
Limiting how often an advertisement is shown
Detecting advertising fraud
Understanding whether an advertisement resulted in a visit or other action
Personalizing advertisements where permitted and consented to
Where consent is legally required, advertising cookies and similar technologies will not be activated until the appropriate consent has been provided.
If advertising technologies are introduced, the relevant providers and cookies will be disclosed through this Cookie Policy and/or the website's cookie settings as required.
6. Functional Cookies
Functional cookies may be used to remember choices you make and provide additional website functionality.
For example, they may remember certain display preferences or settings.
Some functional cookies may be necessary to provide functionality specifically requested by you. Others may require consent.
Where consent is required, these cookies will not be activated until consent has been provided.
7. Third-Party Cookies
Some features or services used by StartupSpotting may be provided by third parties.
Depending on the services used on the website, third parties could include providers of:
Website analytics
Advertising
Embedded videos
Social media content
Newsletter services
Forms
Security services
Content delivery
Website functionality
These providers may place or access cookies or similar technologies when their services are used.
Where required by law, non-essential third-party cookies will not be activated until you have provided the appropriate consent.
Third parties may process information according to their own privacy and cookie policies.
8. Embedded Content
StartupSpotting articles may contain embedded or linked content from other websites, such as videos, social media posts or other interactive content.
Embedded content can sometimes allow the third-party provider to collect information about visitors or place cookies on their devices.
Where legally required, embedded content that uses non-essential cookies or similar technologies will be blocked or restricted until the appropriate consent has been provided.
Simply following a link from StartupSpotting to another website will take you to that third party's website, where its own privacy and cookie policies apply.
9. Similar Technologies
In addition to traditional cookies, websites and third-party services may use similar technologies such as:
Local storage
Session storage
Pixels
Tags
Scripts
Device or browser identifiers
Other technologies that store or access information on a device
Where these technologies are subject to the same consent requirements as cookies, StartupSpotting will treat them accordingly.
10. Your Cookie Choices
Where consent is required, StartupSpotting will provide a way for you to choose whether non-essential cookies may be used.
Depending on the cookies and services in use, you may be able to:
Accept non-essential cookies
Reject non-essential cookies
Select particular categories of cookies
Change your preferences
Withdraw previously given consent
Rejecting non-essential cookies should not prevent you from accessing the basic content of StartupSpotting.
Necessary cookies may continue to operate where they are permitted without consent.
Not responding to a cookie request, closing the cookie banner, scrolling the page or continuing to browse will not by itself be treated as consent where active consent is legally required.
11. Changing or Withdrawing Consent
You may change your cookie preferences or withdraw your consent at any time through the cookie settings available on StartupSpotting, where applicable.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.
You can also delete stored cookies through your browser settings.
12. Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
View stored cookies
Delete individual cookies
Delete all cookies
Block certain cookies
Block third-party cookies
Prevent websites from storing cookies
Receive notifications when cookies are being stored
Clear cookies when the browser closes
Please be aware that blocking all cookies may prevent some website features from functioning correctly.
13. Cookies Currently Used
The cookies used by StartupSpotting depend on the website's current technical configuration.
Where required, information about individual non-essential cookies and similar technologies will be provided through this Cookie Policy and/or StartupSpotting's cookie settings.
This information may include:
Cookie or technology name
Provider
Purpose
Category
Whether it is provided by StartupSpotting or a third party
Duration or expiration period
The type of information collected or used
StartupSpotting will update this information when relevant services are introduced, removed or materially changed.
14. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device
Cookies generally fall into two categories:
Session cookies are normally deleted when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
The duration of individual non-essential cookies used by StartupSpotting will be disclosed through the website's cookie information or cookie settings where required.
15. Personal Data and Cookies
Some cookies and similar technologies may involve the processing of personal data, such as IP addresses, device identifiers or information about website activity.
Where cookies involve personal data, that information will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection law.
16. International Processing
Some third-party providers may process information outside Sweden or the European Economic Area.
Where personal data is transferred internationally, the processing will be handled in accordance with applicable data protection requirements, as further described in our Privacy Policy.
17. Changes to the Services We Use
StartupSpotting may add or remove analytics, advertising, security, newsletter, video, social media or other third-party services as the website develops.
When a change materially affects the cookies or similar technologies used on the website, we will update our cookie information as appropriate.
New non-essential cookies will be subject to consent where required by law.
18. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes to StartupSpotting, the technologies we use or applicable legal requirements.
When we make changes, the "Last updated" date at the top of this page will be revised.
We encourage visitors to review this policy periodically.