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The Cookie Policy of a company is quoted below. Should it not be: "uses its own and third-party cookies"?

A different issue but I guess it should also say "analyse users' experiences" and as they usually use American English this might be even better: "analyze users' experiences".

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  • Please ask a single question, indicating your research. Proofreading questions are off-topic, and you seem to be trying to list every fault in an unassuming document, rather than asking a single, substantive question. – Stuart F Feb 10 '23 at 15:37
  • This is a mistake that I have seen in many a presidential speech. One wonders why speechwriters can't get the pronoun its, right. – Lambie Feb 10 '23 at 16:29

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I'd agree that there is an incongruity involved in

  • TechHero uses our own and third-party cookies to ...

The company is given singular verb agreement (uses) twinned with a plural-form possessive ('our') relating to the same referent. Switching to 'its' certainly averts this clash, but 'third-party's' the company ... that company, not our company. The meaning is altered; there is a disowning.

While notional agreement works better here:

  • TechHero use our own and third-party cookies to ...

this still sounds unnatural. I'd rewrite to

  • We at TechHero use our own and third-party cookies to ...

or

  • At TechHero, we use our own and third-party cookies to ...
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TechHero uses our own and third-party cookies

Either

TechHero uses its own and third-party cookies -> its has as its referent TechHero and both are the third person.

We use our own and third-party cookies -> our has as its referent we and both are the second person plural.

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