A site that does not watch you.
Most B2B vendor websites quietly load a dozen third-party scripts before the page has finished rendering — Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight Tag, Hotjar session recordings, an A/B-test SDK, a chat widget, a retargeting tag or two. The consent banner that appears in front of the content is the price of admission. We decided not to do that. www.codeb.io is hosted in the EU and carries no tracking cookies and no third-party analytics tools. This page is the engineering reasoning behind that choice.
What is not on this site
We list these by name so you can verify it in any browser developer-tools network tab. www.codeb.io does not load and does not contain:
- No Google Analytics, GA4, Google Tag Manager or Universal Analytics.
- No Meta Pixel (Facebook), no LinkedIn Insight Tag, no TikTok Pixel, no X/Twitter conversion tag.
- No Hotjar, Mouseflow, Smartlook, FullStory or any other session-replay tool.
- No A/B-test or experimentation SDK (no Optimizely, no Google Optimize, no VWO).
- No third-party chat widget (no Intercom, Drift, HubSpot Chat, Zendesk Chat or similar).
- No HubSpot, Marketo, Pardot, ActiveCampaign or other marketing-automation script.
- No retargeting pixels, no advertising-network tags, no programmatic ad SDK.
- No browser-fingerprinting or canvas-fingerprinting library.
- No CDN-side scripted edge-worker that mutates the page based on visitor profile.
- No "essential" tracking that pretends not to be tracking.
Consequently, this site sets no cookies of its own and does not require a consent banner. There is nothing to consent to. You arrive on the page and the page is just text, vector icons and a small amount of CSS and JavaScript that lives on our server.
What this site does load — the honest list
We are not interested in claiming purity we cannot prove. Here is everything the browser fetches when you open a page on www.codeb.io:
- HTML, CSS and a small
script.js— served from our own EU-hosted infrastructure, with no telemetry built into them. - Web fonts from Google Fonts (
fonts.googleapis.comandfonts.gstatic.com). We use the Raleway display font and IBM Plex Mono for typography. Google Fonts is a third-party domain — loading those fonts discloses your IP address to Google. The CDN does not set cookies, does not run JavaScript, and Google publicly states that font-request data is not used for advertising or profiling. We disclose this in the privacy policy under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If you would rather not connect to Google Fonts, the typography degrades gracefully to your operating-system fonts. - YouTube video embeds — only when you click play. A demo and a
customer-case video are embedded on the products and industries pages. We use the
youtube-nocookie.comprivacy-enhanced domain, and the video does not load until you actively press the play button. Until you click, no request is made to YouTube and no cookie can be set. - Nothing else. No external counters, no third-party JavaScript SDKs, no remote configuration calls.
Why the engineering team chose this
CodeB is a Windows logon product that runs entirely on the customer’s own infrastructure. It is designed to operate without a cloud connection. It does not phone home with usage data, machine inventories or token statistics. The customers who buy it — hospitals, manufacturers, regulated offices — are buying that property as a feature, not an accident.
It would be incoherent for the product’s own marketing site to do the opposite. A vendor that loads twenty trackers on its homepage is teaching its prospects that tracking is normal. We do not want to be that vendor. The same principle that keeps telemetry out of the credential provider keeps Google Analytics out of the homepage.
There is a practical bonus: GDPR compliance is dramatically simpler when there is nothing to consent to. We do not need a banner. We do not need a consent-management platform. We do not need to chase down the fourteen third-party processors that a typical SaaS marketing stack drags in. The privacy policy is shorter because the site does less.
What we give up by doing this
This is the part nobody else writes. Going analytics-free has real costs and you should know what we are paying:
- We do not know which pages you visited. We do not know how long you stayed. We cannot run A/B tests on copy.
- We cannot retarget you on LinkedIn or Google after you leave. Our paid-search campaigns (when we run them) cannot measure conversion at the page level.
- We cannot tell whether a particular blog post or comparison table is performing well. We will read the form submissions and the emails, and that is our entire feedback loop.
- If you fill in the contact form, the resulting email contains exactly what you typed, plus the timestamp and the IP the form was submitted from (for abuse control). Nothing more.
We are comfortable with that trade. If you want to give us feedback on the site, the most reliable channel is to write to info@codeb.io and tell us — a human reads every message.
04 — Colour & lineage
A note on the amber screen
Why the colour scheme looks like a 1980s terminal.
The accent colour you see throughout CodeB — that warm #f5a524 against
the deep #0a0d12 background — is a deliberate tribute to amber-phosphor
CRT monitors.
For roughly fifteen years, from the late 1970s into the early 1990s, the people who ran the world’s most consequential computers stared at amber screens. The IBM 5151, the Wyse 50, terminals on hospital nursing stations, manufacturing line PLCs, air-traffic-control consoles, defence command terminals — they all glowed in this same warm yellow at around 580 nm wavelength.
The reason wasn’t aesthetic. Amber phosphor (P3, later P134) was chosen because it sits in the sweet spot of the human eye’s photopic sensitivity curve. Operators staring at a screen for ten or twelve hours — radiologists, air-traffic controllers, machine-tool programmers — experienced measurably less eye fatigue with amber than with the otherwise-common green P1 phosphor, and significantly less than with the white CRTs that became fashionable later. Amber was the colour of tools for people whose work mattered.
That’s the lineage we wanted CodeB to invoke. A serious tool for people doing serious work — clinicians, engineers, factory operators, public servants, defence supply chains — the same people CodeB Identity Solutions has served for two decades. The codeb.io design language uses amber the way those terminals did: high signal, no decoration. There is one accent colour because the work is what matters; the chrome shouldn’t compete with it.
(And there’s a small practical bonus: against a dark background, amber has the highest perceptual contrast of any single accent colour, and it remains distinguishable to people with the most common forms of red-green colour vision deficiency. The 1980s engineers picked it for ergonomic reasons; we picked it for the same ones plus a bit of historical respect.)
Where to read the legal version
This page is the principle. The legally binding statement of how we handle personal data is in the privacy policy: controller identity, legal bases under Art. 6 GDPR, retention, transfers, data-subject rights and the complaint route to a supervisory authority.
Last reviewed: 22 May 2026.