Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your browser or device. They can remember a preference, maintain a session, help a website work securely or measure how it is used.

Other technologies, such as local storage, tracking pixels, scripts and certain device identifiers, can serve similar purposes. UK cookie rules can apply when these technologies store information on, or access information from, your device.

Session and persistent cookies

Session cookies usually expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain until they expire or you delete them. Cookies may be set by this website (first-party cookies) or by another service used on the website (third-party cookies).

The Cookie Confirm banner presents three categories. The descriptions below explain what each category is for.

Functional cookies must genuinely be necessary for the relevant purpose. Analytics or advertising tracking is not treated as essential simply because it is useful to my business.

Cookie Confirm provides the website's consent banner. When you first visit, you can select Accept all, Reject all or Allow selection to save the categories you choose.

Functional cookies remain active where strictly necessary. Optional analytical and marketing categories are set to off by default and require an active choice to enable them. Simply continuing to browse does not count as consent.

Changing or withdrawing consent applies to future use of the relevant technologies. It does not reverse processing that has already taken place on a valid lawful basis. Some cookies already stored on your device may need to be removed through your browser settings.

The declaration below is supplied by Cookie Confirm. It is intended to show the cookies its scanner has detected, together with details such as their purposes, providers and expiry periods where available. The list may change as the website or third-party services change.

The cookie list comes from the latest available Cookie Confirm scan. A scanner can miss technologies used only on particular pages or after certain interactions, so the declaration should be reviewed periodically.

You can change your cookie choices at any time using the Cookie Settings control shown on the website or the Open cookie settings button near the top of this page.

You can also remove or block cookies in your browser settings. Most modern browsers allow you to view and delete stored cookies or block selected websites. Removing consent cookies may cause the website to ask for your choices again.

Blocking essential cookies may affect features you have requested, but rejecting optional analytical and marketing categories should not prevent normal browsing.

The technologies used can vary depending on the page you visit and your consent choices. These services may be involved:

• Google Analytics 4: measurement of traffic sources, page visits and website interactions, subject to analytical consent where required.
• Microsoft Clarity: optional heatmaps and session interaction analysis, where enabled and consented to.
• Google Ads: optional advertising attribution, conversion measurement and remarketing, subject to marketing consent where required.
• Cloudflare and hosting or security services: traffic delivery, protection and essential technical operations.
• Embedded content and widgets: services such as maps, videos, reviews or other external content may use their own technologies when loaded.
• Cookie Confirm: storage and management of your cookie choices and supporting consent records.

This is a description of possible service categories, not a claim that every listed tool places a cookie on every visit. For the detected cookies and providers, consult the live declaration above.

Cookies have different expiry periods. Some end when your browser session closes, while others remain for a specified duration. Where identified by Cookie Confirm, the current expiry information appears in the declaration on this page.

Cookie Confirm says its standard consent logs are retained for up to one year unless otherwise agreed. These are separate from the cookies stored on your browser.

Cookie Confirm helps me record and respect your choices. According to its published privacy policy, its consent logs may contain a partial IP address, browser user-agent, country, consent status and whether the choice was explicit or implicit.

Cookie Confirm is operated by Hashtag SEM Marketing Management FZCO, registered in the United Arab Emirates. Its published policy explains how it processes consent information on behalf of website customers. See Cookie Confirm's privacy policy.

Other providers may process information outside the UK, depending on the service and infrastructure used. Where restricted transfers are involved, appropriate protections must be in place. For wider details on personal information and your rights, please read my Privacy Policy.

My use of cookies and similar technologies is governed by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), together with applicable UK data protection legislation. The general approach is to explain what the technologies do and obtain valid consent unless a legal exception applies.

Strictly necessary cookies can usually operate without consent when they are genuinely required to deliver a service you requested. I have chosen to request opt-in consent for optional analytics and advertising technologies on this website.

I may update this policy when the website, cookie providers, consent settings or legal requirements change. The date at the top shows when this policy was last revised.

The cookie declaration is managed separately by Cookie Confirm and may be updated between revisions of this explanatory text.

I am the data controller for personal information processed in connection with this website, including the purposes for which cookie technologies are used.

For wider information about how I use your personal data, how to exercise your rights or how to raise a privacy complaint, see the Privacy Policy.