1. What cookies are

A cookie is a small piece of data a website asks your browser to keep, and can read back on a later page or a later visit. Related technologies do the same job by other means: local storage keeps data in the browser until something clears it, and session storage discards it when the tab closes. This policy covers all of them, because what matters is what is stored and why, not the mechanism.

2. What this site stores

One thing, and it is not a cookie. When you dismiss the notice at the foot of the page, the browser records that you have seen it, in local storage, under a single key. That is why the notice does not come back on every page.

That record stays in your own browser. It is never sent anywhere, it is not readable by anyone else, and it contains nothing about you: only the fact that the notice was acknowledged. Clearing your browser storage removes it, and the notice appears again.

3. What this site does not do

There is no analytics platform on this site. No visit counter, no heatmap, no session recording, no conversion tracking. There is no advertising network and no advertising pixel. There is no cross-site tracking of any kind, and no profile of you is built here or anywhere else from your use of this site.

This is a deliberate choice rather than an oversight. The site exists so that someone with a legal question can read what the service covers and make contact. Measuring that behaviour would add data to hold, and holding data that the purpose does not require runs against the way the rest of this practice handles information.

4. Why the notice is an informer and not a consent request

Under the rules that generally apply, storage which is strictly necessary for a site to work does not require permission, while storage used for measurement or advertising does. Because this site only stores the acknowledgement described in section 2, there is nothing here for you to permit or refuse.

So the notice tells you what happens rather than asking you to agree to it, and it offers one action. Presenting a choice that has no effect would be misleading, which is why there is no accept-and-reject pair.

If measurement is ever added, this changes: you would be asked before anything loaded, refusing would be as easy as accepting, and refusing would work.

5. Third parties

The page loads its two typefaces from Google Fonts. That request goes to Google's servers, which means your browser's IP address and the type of browser you use are visible to Google in the course of serving the font files, under Google's own terms. The fonts do not set cookies for this site and are not used here to identify you.

No other third-party request is made from this site: no tag manager, no embedded video, no social widget, no chat tool, no comment system, no external map.

6. The enquiry form

The form does not set cookies. What you type is not stored in your browser between visits and is not saved anywhere until you send it. Once sent, the contents are handled as described in the Privacy Policy.

7. Controlling storage in your browser

Every current browser lets you see, block and delete cookies and site data from its settings, usually under a privacy or site-permissions heading. You can clear the data for this site alone or for all sites, and you can set the browser to refuse storage entirely.

Blocking storage for this site costs you nothing except that the notice at the foot of the page will reappear on each visit, since the record of your acknowledgement is exactly what gets cleared. Nothing else on the site depends on it.

8. Do Not Track and global privacy signals

Some browsers send a signal asking sites not to track the visitor. This site does not track visitors whether or not that signal is sent, so there is nothing here for it to switch off.

9. Changes to this policy

This policy is updated whenever what the site loads changes, and the notice at the foot of the page is updated with it. The version and the date of the last change are shown beside the title. A change that introduces measurement or advertising would be accompanied by a consent step, not merely by an edit to this text.

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