Our Cookie Policy Explained
A plain-language guide to the small files our website uses, why they exist, and how you stay in control.
Last updated: 15 January 2025
What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files a website places on your device when you visit. They let pages remember things — your preferences, whether you've dismissed a banner, that you're already signed in for a reservation lookup. Without them, every click would feel like the first time you'd ever landed on the site.
Two kinds matter for this policy. Session cookies disappear the moment you close your browser; they hold short-term information like a navigation state. Persistent cookies stick around for a defined period, sometimes a few days, sometimes longer, and they recognise you on a return visit so the site doesn't have to ask the same questions twice.
Categories of Cookies
We group the cookies we use, or plan to use, into three categories.
Strictly Necessary
These keep the site running. They record your consent choices, maintain secure sessions, and handle basic operations like loading pages reliably. You can't switch these off without breaking the site.
Performance & Analytics
These measure how people use the site — which articles draw attention, which pages load slowly, where visitors drop off. The data is aggregated. We use it to fix problems and decide what to write about next.
Advertising
We don't currently run targeted advertising. If that changes, these cookies would support relevant promotions and measure their reach. We'll ask for fresh consent before any of this goes live.
External Cookies
Some cookies don't come from us directly. They're set by third parties whose services we rely on to keep the site functional, fast, and informative.
Analytics providers
We plan to integrate a privacy-respecting analytics platform in the near future. When that happens, it will drop its own cookies to count visits and session length. No personal identification, no cross-site tracking — just numbers.
Advertising partners
Should we partner with advertisers down the line, their cookies may appear on our pages. This policy will be updated before any partner cookie is activated, and consent controls will reflect the change.
Hosting and content delivery
Our content delivery network places small technical cookies to route traffic and protect the site against abuse. These are operational, not behavioural.
Controlling Cookies
Your browser is the simplest place to manage cookies. Every modern browser — Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, lets you block cookies entirely, clear them on exit, or accept them only from sites you trust. The settings menu under Privacy or Security is where you'll find these controls.
A word of warning. If you block strictly necessary cookies, parts of the site will stop behaving correctly. Consent banners may reappear on every visit. Reservation forms may not submit. Disabling analytics or advertising cookies, on the other hand, has no effect on the content you see — only on the data we collect about how it's being read.
Worth knowing: clearing cookies in your browser also clears the record of consent choices you've made here. The next time you visit, we'll ask again.
Revisions
This policy was last revised on 15 January 2025. We review it whenever we add a new service, change an analytics tool, or adjust how consent is captured.
When something material changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page and, where the change affects how you interact with the site, surface a notice on your next visit. For the broader picture of how we handle data, see our Privacy Policy. Questions about anything here can go through the Contact page.