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Cookie Policy
This policy explains how BrainyBots may use cookies and similar storage or access technologies on brainybots.co.uk, why they may be used and what choices visitors have.
Last updated: 22 September 2026
2Why websites use them
Cookies can support essential functions, remember choices, protect the site or, if enabled, help measure website use.
3Your choice matters
Optional cookies and similar technologies should only be used when the required consent has been obtained.
Cookie categories
Not every cookie has the same purpose.
BrainyBots may use different categories depending on the final website configuration and the tools that are enabled.
Strictly necessary
Always onThese support functionality that is essential to provide the website or a service the visitor requests, such as security, load balancing or remembering cookie preferences.
These do not normally require consent when they meet the legal “strictly necessary” exception.Preference / functional
ChoiceThese may remember optional choices or settings that are not essential to deliver the website itself.
Where they are not strictly necessary, they should only be enabled after the required consent.Analytics
ChoiceAnalytics technologies may help understand how visitors use the website, which pages are visited and how the site can be improved.
If BrainyBots enables non-essential analytics, the appropriate consent mechanism should be used before those technologies are activated.Marketing / advertising
ChoiceThese may be used for advertising, conversion measurement, remarketing or tracking activity across services.
If used, these technologies should remain off until valid consent has been given.
How consent should work
Optional tracking should not start before you choose.
Where consent is required, BrainyBots should provide a clear way to accept or refuse optional cookies and similar technologies.
1Essential technologies can operate
Technologies that are strictly necessary to provide the requested website service may be used without optional-cookie consent.
2Optional categories stay off first
Analytics, advertising or other non-essential technologies should not be activated before the required permission is received.
3Visitors should have a real choice
Consent should be informed and based on a clear positive action, with a practical way to refuse non-essential technologies.
4Preferences should be changeable
Visitors should be able to change or withdraw optional-cookie choices using the website’s cookie controls once configured.
Cookie inventory
Technologies that may appear on the final website.
The exact names and durations depend on the final WordPress plugins, Hostinger services and integrations used on the live site.
This table must be checked against a cookie/storage scan of the final live website before publication. Any optional analytics, advertising, embedded-media or third-party technologies should be identified here before they are enabled.
| Category | Provider / source | Purpose | Typical duration | Consent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | BrainyBots / WordPress / Hostinger | Website operation, security, session handling or technical delivery where required. | Session or as configured by the relevant service. | Not required where the technology meets the strictly necessary exception. |
| Consent preference | Cookie consent tool, once configured | Remember a visitor’s cookie choices so the site does not repeatedly ask for the same preference. | To be confirmed from the consent tool configuration. | May qualify as strictly necessary when used only to remember the cookie choice. |
| Analytics | Only if an analytics service is enabled | Measure website usage and help improve pages or performance. | Provider-specific; must be listed before activation. | Optional — appropriate consent required before non-essential analytics is activated. |
| Marketing | Only if advertising or conversion tracking is enabled | Advertising, conversion measurement, remarketing or cross-service tracking. | Provider-specific; must be listed before activation. | Optional — consent required before activation. |
| Embedded services | Only if third-party embeds are added | May support external video, maps, booking or other embedded functionality. | Provider-specific; must be checked before use. | Depends on whether the storage/access is strictly necessary; otherwise consent is required. |
Managing cookies
You can control cookies in more than one way.
Once a cookie consent tool is configured, visitors should be able to revisit their choices on the website. Browser settings can also be used to manage or remove cookies.
01Use BrainyBots cookie settings
When the consent tool is active, use its cookie settings control to accept, refuse or change optional-cookie categories.
02Use your browser controls
Most browsers allow users to delete cookies, block cookies, restrict third-party cookies or clear stored website data.
03Remember that blocking can affect features
Blocking essential technologies may prevent parts of a website or requested service from working correctly.
04Ask us a question
If you have a cookie or privacy question, use the BrainyBots Contact page.
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