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Cookie Policy
The cookies and similar technologies our website uses, why we use them and how you can control them.
Last updated: 15 October 2026
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This policy explains the cookies and similar technologies used on thepoolcleaning.co.uk. Please read it together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal data more generally.
The short version
- We use no analytics, advertising or social media tracking cookies.
- Our host sets one strictly necessary security cookie that's deleted when you close your browser.
- WordPress stores one small technical check in your browser for the current tab only.
- Our fonts load from Google Fonts, which sets no cookies.
- Because we only use strictly necessary technologies, we don't show a cookie banner.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies work in much the same way, including local storage, session storage, tracking pixels and scripts that read information from your device. This policy covers all of them, and we call them “cookies” for short.
Under the UK’s Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), a website must ask for your consent before using cookies, unless they’re strictly necessary to provide the service you asked for, or fall within another exception in the law.
2. Cookies we use
Strictly necessary
These are needed for the website to work and stay secure, so they don’t need your consent.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Type and duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| hcdn | Hostinger (our host’s content delivery network) | Security and traffic routing for our website; protects against abusive traffic | HTTP cookie, secure and HTTP-only; deleted when you close your browser |
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | WordPress (our own site) | Remembers whether your browser can display emoji, so the check isn’t repeated on every page | Session storage; cleared when you close the tab |
If you log in to WordPress, which only the site owner does, WordPress sets its own login cookies. Ordinary visitors never receive them.
Forms and page design
Our quote and contact forms run on Contact Form 7 inside our own website. They set no cookies. The contact form uses a simple built-in sum question to stop spam, not a third-party CAPTCHA. Our page builder, Elementor, sets no cookies for visitors.
Analytics
None. We don’t currently use Google Analytics or any other analytics tool.
Advertising and social media
None. We don’t use advertising pixels, retargeting or social media trackers.
3. Google Fonts
Our website’s typeface (Geist) is loaded from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com). When your browser downloads the font, Google receives your IP address and basic browser information, as it would for any web request. Google says Google Fonts doesn’t set cookies or use this data to build profiles about you. You can read more in Google’s Fonts privacy FAQ.
4. How to manage cookies
Because we only use strictly necessary cookies and storage, we don’t show a cookie banner. Strictly necessary cookies don’t need consent under PECR, and adding a banner that asks you to accept cookies we don’t use would only get in your way. You can still block or delete cookies in your browser settings, although parts of the site might not work as expected. These guides explain how:
Before we add anything new
If we ever add analytics or any non-essential cookie, we’ll update this policy first and ask for your consent where the law requires it.
5. Changes to this policy
We’ll update this policy whenever the cookies on our website change. The date at the top shows when it last changed.
6. Contact us
If you spot a cookie on our site that isn’t listed here, please tell us so we can check it and update this policy. Questions about cookies? Send us a message through our contact form, or email us at info@thepoolcleaning.co.uk. See also our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
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