What We Use
- Essential website delivery and security handled through our hosting setup.
- Essential local storage to remember your cookie and settings choice for this browser.
- Optional preference storage, if you allow it, to remember comfort settings such as Quiet mode.
- Optional Google Analytics (GA4), only if you allow the Analytics category, so we can see which pages help people. It sets Google _ga cookies and stays off until you opt in.
- Session storage on parts of the Industrial Elements page to remember a resource unlock during the current browser session.
- Stripe checkout, when enabled for bookings, which may use its own cookies or similar technologies on Stripe-controlled pages.
What We Are Not Doing
- No advertising cookies.
- No retargeting pixels.
- No analytics of any kind until you choose to allow it. Reject, and nothing analytics-related loads.
Your Choices
You can choose essential only, accept all available categories, or open settings and choose category by category. The optional categories are preferences, analytics and marketing. If you allow Analytics, we load Google Analytics through Google Consent Mode; if you do not, it never loads. We do not currently use anything in the marketing category.
You can change or withdraw your choice anytime using the Cookie Settings button that appears after you make a choice.
The Analytics Cookies
If you allow Analytics, Google Analytics 4 sets a small number of first-party cookies to count visits and understand which pages help people. We do not use them for advertising.
- _ga and _ga_<id>, set by Google Analytics to tell visits apart and remember the session. They last up to about two years and only appear after you opt in.
Provider: Google. You can reject or clear them anytime through Cookie Settings.
External Platforms
If you leave this site and visit Instagram, TikTok, Stripe or another third-party platform from one of our links, that platform may use its own cookies or tracking under its own policy.
Our interest and enquiry forms send submissions to us by email through FormSubmit, and, if you allow it, analytics data goes to Google. Both are covered in our privacy notice.
If This Changes
If we add anything new, such as marketing cookies or other tools, we will update this page and put the right consent step in place first.
ICO guidance: Cookies and similar technologies
Related Information
For the wider picture on how we handle personal information, read our privacy notice.
If something on the site seems unclear, email hello@scocic.uk.