Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Christmas at Bewl Water uses cookies and similar technologies on the christmas.bewlwater.co.uk website. It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, improve performance and provide information to site owners. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage and tracking pixels.

2. The Categories We Use

We group the cookies on this site into three categories.

2.1 Strictly Necessary

Required for the site to function. They cannot be switched off in our consent banner. They include preferences such as your cookie choice itself, accessibility settings, and security features. No personally identifiable data is shared with third parties through these cookies.

2.2 Analytics

Help us understand how the site is used so we can improve it. With your analytics consent, we use Vercel Analytics and Contentsquare (formerly Hotjar), including heatmaps and session replays. Forms and input fields are masked in Contentsquare. Google Analytics 4 also measures site usage according to your consent choices. You can withdraw analytics consent using Manage Cookies in the footer.

2.3 Marketing

Used to measure the performance of advertising campaigns and, where relevant, to show you more relevant ads on other sites. These only run after you accept marketing cookies. Examples include the Meta (Facebook) pixel and Google Ads conversion tags.

3. The Cookies in Use

The exact set of cookies depends on the pages you visit and the choices you make in the consent banner. The most common are:

• cab_consent (strictly necessary, ~12 months): stores your cookie banner choice so we do not ask you on every visit.
• Vercel Analytics (analytics, no third-party cookies set by default): aggregate page-view and performance data.
• _ga, _ga_* (analytics, up to 2 years, only if you accept): GA4 session and user identifiers, used to measure site usage.
• _fbp (marketing, ~90 days, only if you accept): used by Meta to deliver and measure advertising.
• _cs_* (analytics, only after consent): Contentsquare identifiers used for heatmaps and session replays. Its opt-out cookie remembers a refusal of tracking. See the Contentsquare cookie list for each cookie's purpose and retention period.

4. Managing Your Choices

You can change your choice at any time using the cookie banner. Most browsers also let you block or delete cookies through their settings. Please be aware that disabling strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the site working correctly.

5. Third-Party Cookies

Where we embed content from third parties (for example, a Google Map showing our location), those third parties may set their own cookies. We have no control over those cookies. Please refer to the provider's own cookie policy for details. Embedded content only loads once strictly necessary and, where applicable, the relevant consent category have been agreed.

6. Do Not Track

We honour our cookie banner choices regardless of any Do Not Track signal sent by your browser. We do not currently respond separately to DNT headers, as there is no agreed UK standard for doing so.

7. Contact

For questions about this policy or how we use cookies, email christmas@bewlwater.co.uk.