Legal

Cookies

Last updated 2026-05-10

Pre-launch: solicitor pass required. Working draft for solicitor review before Cotswold Co-host ships.

Short version

We don't set marketing cookies. We don't set tracking cookies. We don't use third-party advertising networks. Our analytics is cookieless. There's no cookie banner because there's nothing about cookies that needs your consent.

Strictly necessary cookies

A few cookies are set by infrastructure providers we depend on, all of which fall under the "strictly necessary" category that doesn't require consent under PECR / UK GDPR:

  • Cloudflare: bot management and CDN optimisation. Set if Cloudflare's security layer detects automated traffic; expires after a session or up to 30 days. No personal data.
  • Cloudflare Turnstile: anti-spam challenge on the inquiry form. Sets a short-lived token while the challenge is active. Expires after a few minutes.

Analytics

We use Plausible Analytics for aggregate page-view metrics. Plausible is privacy-first and cookieless: no cookies are set, no personal data is collected, no cross-site tracking, no IP address is stored in identifiable form. We see numbers like "this page got 47 views this week" and nothing more.

What we deliberately don't do

  • No Google Analytics or Meta Pixel
  • No advertising or remarketing cookies
  • No cross-site tracking
  • No social media tracking pixels
  • No A/B testing tools that store identity

Browser-level controls

If you want to block cookies anyway, including the strictly necessary ones, your browser's settings let you do that. Doing so may interfere with the inquiry form's spam protection but won't otherwise affect your reading of the site.

Questions

Email kirsteen@cotswoldcohost.co.uk if anything here isn't clear or you'd like more detail.