Cookie Policy
What this website stores in your browser, why it is there and how to manage it.
Our current approach
Analytics is optional and off until you allow it. Choose “Allow analytics” to enable Google Analytics, or “Necessary only” to continue without it. Advertising cookies are not used.
This policy applies to startbright.co.uk, the StartBright Studio website. For questions, email info@startbright.co.uk.
What cookies and similar storage do
A cookie is a small piece of information a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies include browser storage. These can remember a setting, support a signed-in session or, where enabled, measure activity. A cookie’s purpose determines how it should be handled.
Storage used on this site
| Name or category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
sb_cookie_choice | First-party necessary preference cookie. Remembers your cookie-notice choice, its date and the notice version. It contains no advertising identifier. | 180 days from your last saved choice. |
| WordPress authentication and settings cookies | Used when an authorised administrator signs in, to authenticate that session, protect administration and retain editor preferences. These are not advertising cookies and are not required to read our public pages. | Varies with the session, “remember me” choice and administrator preference. |
_ga and _ga_* | Optional Google Analytics cookies. Distinguish visits and maintain session information so we can understand page use and contact-link clicks. Set only after you allow analytics. | Up to two years, refreshed on eligible visits; removed when you choose “Necessary only”. |
Google Analytics is enabled only after permission. Google Ads, Meta advertising pixels and session-replay tools are not enabled by this website. Advertising personalisation and Google signals are disabled in our Analytics configuration.
Google Fonts and external links
The website loads typography from Google Fonts. Google states that its Fonts API does not set cookies. The request still sends technical information to Google, including your IP address and browser details. This is explained in our Privacy Policy and Google’s Fonts privacy information.
Our WhatsApp buttons are ordinary external links, with no embedded chat widget or WhatsApp tracking script. If you follow a link to WhatsApp or another website, that service’s own cookie rules and choices apply.
Manage your choice
Select “Cookie settings” in the footer at any time to reopen the notice. “Necessary only” records your preference and keeps analytics off. “Allow analytics” enables Google Analytics. To withdraw permission, select “Necessary only”; our Analytics cookies are cleared and the page reloads if the Analytics script was running. Withdrawal does not undo information already collected.
You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Deleting our preference cookie makes the notice appear again. Blocking cookies may stop your choice being remembered and can affect administrator sign-in. If JavaScript is unavailable, the preference controls cannot run; the policy remains available and no optional tracking is enabled.
If the setup changes
If we introduce a new optional purpose or provider, we will update this information and ask for the relevant permission. Choices saved under the previous necessary-only notice do not count as permission for Analytics.
More information about cookies and browser controls is available from the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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