Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of information that websites can store on your device when you visit them.

Websites can also use similar browser technologies, including local storage, to remember information or preferences.

These technologies can be used for different purposes. Some are necessary for a website or feature to work, while others can be used for things such as analytics, personalisation or advertising.

How Athay Design uses them

Athay Design aims to keep the use of cookies and similar technologies straightforward.

The website can use essential browser storage where it is needed for a feature to operate or to remember a choice you've made.

Optional technologies, such as analytics, are treated separately so that you can decide whether you want to allow them.

Essential storage

Essential storage is used where it is reasonably necessary for the website or a feature you've requested to operate.

Athay Design currently uses browser storage to remember the cookie preferences you select.

Because this preference storage is used to remember the privacy choice you've asked the website to apply, it is treated as essential.

Analytics

Analytics tools can help a website owner understand things such as which pages are visited, how visitors arrive at a website and how the site is being used.

Athay Design's cookie controls include an option for analytics so that optional measurement can be managed separately from essential website functionality.

No external analytics service is currently activated through that consent setting.

If an analytics provider is introduced, it will only be activated in accordance with the cookie choice you've made where consent is required. This policy will also be updated to identify the relevant service and explain the technologies it uses.

Advertising and profiling

Athay Design doesn't currently use cookies for behavioural advertising or to build advertising profiles of visitors to this website.

If that changes in future, this policy and the website's consent controls will be updated before those technologies are intentionally introduced where consent is required.

Third-party services

Some website features may rely on services supplied by other organisations.

Where a third-party feature sets or accesses non-essential cookies or similar technologies, I will take reasonable steps to ensure that the appropriate consent choice is respected before intentionally activating that feature.

Third-party services may have their own privacy and cookie information explaining how they process data.

Your cookie choices

When the Athay Design cookie controls are shown, you can choose whether to allow optional analytics.

Essential functionality doesn't require that optional analytics choice because it is needed to operate the website or remember the preferences you've requested.

Once you've made a choice, the website provides a cookie preferences control that allows you to reopen your settings and change that choice.

If you withdraw permission for optional analytics, the website will stop enabling analytics through the Athay Design consent system from that point onwards.

Browser controls

Most browsers also provide controls that allow you to view, remove or block cookies and other stored website data.

Using browser controls to remove Athay Design's stored preference may cause the website to ask you to make your cookie choice again on a later visit.

Blocking all browser storage can also affect website features that rely on it to work correctly.

Changes to this policy

I may update this policy when the technologies or services used by Athay Design change.

In particular, the policy will be updated if new analytics, advertising or other non-essential tracking technologies are introduced.

The latest version will be published on this page and the date at the top will show when it was last updated.

Questions about cookies

If you have a question about the technologies used by this website or how your choices are handled, you can contact:

You can also read the Privacy Policy for more information about how Athay Design handles personal information.