Cookie Notice
Cookies, pixels, local storage, analytics, advertising and affiliate measurement — what we use, why, and how you control it.
This notice is published ahead of launch so it can be reviewed. The fields highlighted in orange are still to be completed, and the notice does not take effect until they are. The cookie inventory in section 4 will be generated from the live production site and consent platform, not written by hand.
1. What this policy covers
This policy explains technologies that store information on, or access information from, a user's device, including cookies, pixels, SDKs and local storage.
2. Categories
Strictly necessary
Required for security, consent choices, core functionality and services specifically requested by the user. These may be used without optional-cookie consent where a legal exception applies.
Analytics
Used to understand audience and service performance. Deployed only in accordance with the consent or exemption position applicable to the chosen analytics configuration.
Advertising
Used for ad selection, delivery, measurement, profiling or related advertising functions. Online-advertising storage and access technologies require consent under current ICO guidance.
Affiliate
Used where necessary to attribute referrals or commissions. Each technology is classified by its actual purpose, and consent obtained where required.
Functional
Remember preferences or provide optional functionality. Consent requirements depend on whether an exception applies.
3. Consent
Non-essential storage and access technologies will not be activated before the required consent. Users must be able to accept or reject optional categories and revisit their choices at any time.
4. Cookie inventory
A live table will be published here before launch, listing provider, technology or cookie name, purpose, first or third party, category, duration, data recipients and consent status. It will be generated from the actual production site and consent platform rather than estimated.
Programmatic advertising on this site is served by Google AdSense. Google's consent message, a certified consent management platform, is shown to visitors in the UK and EEA before any advertising cookie is set, and the live inventory is generated from that platform once advertising is switched on. Until then the site sets no advertising cookies: unsold slots carry house advertising for our own products, which uses no tracking technology.
5. Advertising
The site carries direct-sold sponsorship, house advertising for our own products where a slot is unsold, and programmatic display served by Google AdSense. Direct-sold and house advertising uses no storage or access technology. Programmatic display runs under Google's EU user consent policy: no advertising cookie is set and no personalised advertisement is shown to a visitor in the UK or EEA who has not consented. We prefer contextual advertising where commercially appropriate, because it reduces tracking complexity.
6. Managing choices
You can manage your choices through You can change or withdraw your choices at any time from the "Privacy & cookie settings" link in the footer of every page, which reopens the consent message.. Browser controls may also remove or block cookies, but this can affect how the site works.
7. Changes
This policy is updated whenever the production technology inventory materially changes.
8. Effective date
Effective: Last updated 7 September 2026..
