1. Current use of cookies
The public website does not set analytics, advertising, personalisation or social-media cookies. It does not use browser storage for profiling or cross-site tracking.
Because no non-essential public storage is used, the website does not display a consent banner. Adding a decorative banner when there is nothing meaningful to choose would be theatre, not privacy.
2. Strictly necessary technologies
The admin area uses a strictly necessary session cookie when an authorised administrator signs in. This keeps the backend secure and is not used for public tracking.
The live hosting environment may also use strictly necessary security or load-balancing technologies to deliver and protect the service. These should be documented here once the hosting configuration is final.
3. Internal analytics
The site can record first-party analytics events such as page views, Signal Fragment views and Signal Fragment clicks without setting cookies. These events are stored server-side in the private database.
4. Future changes
If optional analytics cookies, embedded media, marketing technology or other non-essential storage is introduced, those technologies must remain disabled until the visitor has made a valid choice where UK law requires consent. The site must also provide an equally clear way to reject or change that choice.
5. Managing cookies in your browser
Most browsers allow you to inspect, block or remove cookies through their privacy settings. Blocking essential technologies may prevent some website functions from operating correctly.
6. Contact
Questions about website storage or privacy can be sent through the contact form.