Cookie Policy

Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device. Local storage, pixels, scripts and similar technologies can also store or access information, recognise a browser, remember choices or send device and usage information to a provider. This policy covers these technologies, not only cookies.

How we manage your choices

We use Complianz to present cookie choices and record preferences. You can accept optional categories, reject optional categories or choose individual categories where offered. You can revisit your choices using the controls below or the site’s cookie preferences control. Refusing optional tracking should not prevent you from reading ordinary website content.

Optional storage and access requiring consent must remain blocked until you choose to allow it. Essential technologies needed to provide a service you request, maintain security or remember your consent choice do not require the same consent. We do not treat scrolling, silence or continued browsing as consent.

Categories and purposes

• Strictly necessary: security, service delivery and remembering cookie choices. Login or form functionality may also require essential technologies when you use those features.
• Preferences: optional settings that remember your choices beyond what is essential for the requested service.
• Statistics or analytics: measuring visits and how content is used, where enabled. Optional analytics are handled through the relevant consent category unless a specific lawful exception and its safeguards have been verified.
• Marketing and third-party media: external players, feeds or tracking that may recognise users across services, personalise content or support advertising. We do not infer consent from your use of a general enquiry form.

Current UK rules include limited exceptions for certain statistical and functionality uses, with conditions. Their existence does not make every analytics tool exempt. Our consent settings must match the particular technology and purpose being used.

Embedded video, audio and social content

The rebuilt website includes YouTube and Spotify players and may include enabled social content from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok or LinkedIn. Loading a player or feed can disclose your IP address and browser information to the provider and may enable its cookies or other storage. A consent placeholder may appear until the relevant category or service is allowed. You can also follow an external link instead; the destination then applies its own privacy and cookie rules.

Privacy-enhanced player URLs alone do not establish that all tracking or third-party processing is absent. Provider rules and whether you are signed into their services can affect processing.

Cookie and service inventory

The inventory below is supplied by Complianz from the services configured and detected on this website. It identifies the available cookie or storage names, providers, purposes and expiry information. It needs to be reviewed when a player, feed, analytics tool or other service changes; a scan alone may not identify every behaviour.

Withdrawal, expiry and browser controls

You can change or withdraw optional consent through the cookie controls. Changes apply to future storage and access; some previously placed third-party cookies may need to be removed using your browser or the provider’s controls. Clearing cookies, changing browser or using another device may cause the banner to appear again.

Session cookies normally expire when the browser session ends. Persistent cookies remain for their stated period or until deleted. You can block or delete cookies through browser settings, but blocking essential storage may affect requested functions.

Personal information and third parties

Where technology processes personal information, our Privacy Policy also applies. Third-party services act under their own notices where relevant. The inventory identifies configured providers; their policies should be read before enabling their content.

Contact and updates

Contact info@alastairhoyne.com if you have a question about the controls or inventory. We update this policy and the service configuration as the site changes.