1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites store on your device when you visit them. Similar technologies, such as your browser's local storage, work in a similar way. They are widely used to make websites work, remember your preferences and provide information to website owners.
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and UK GDPR, websites must ask for your consent before using cookies that aren't strictly necessary for the website to work.
2. How we use cookies
We use two kinds of cookies and similar storage:
- Essential: needed for the website to work, such as remembering your cookie choice. These are always on.
- Analytics: help us understand how visitors use our website so we can improve it. These only run if you click "Accept".
We do not use advertising or marketing cookies. If that ever changes, we'll update this policy and ask for your consent first.
3. The cookies we use
| Name | Type | Provider | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wd_consent | Essential (local storage) | Westerly Digital | Remembers your cookie choice so we don't ask on every page. | Until cleared |
| _ga | Analytics | Distinguishes unique visitors to help us count visits and understand usage. | 2 years | |
| _ga_<ID> | Analytics | Maintains session information for Google Analytics 4. | 2 years |
Analytics cookies are only set after you click "Accept" on our cookie bar. If you click "Reject", or later withdraw consent, we stop analytics and attempt to remove existing Google Analytics cookies from our domain.
4. Google Consent Mode
We use Google Consent Mode v2. By default, all analytics and advertising storage is set to "denied". If you give consent, we update these settings and load Google Tag Manager, which runs Google Analytics. If you decline, neither loads and no analytics cookies are set.
5. Managing your choices
You can change your choice at any time by clicking , also available in the footer of every page.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings, including blocking or deleting them. Blocking all cookies may affect how some websites work. You can find guidance at ico.org.uk. To opt out of Google Analytics across all websites, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
6. Third-party content
Some pages link to other websites, such as projects in our portfolio, and our WhatsApp button opens WhatsApp. Those services have their own cookie policies, which we don't control. We self-host our fonts, so no fonts are loaded from third-party services when you visit our site.
7. Changes to this policy
We'll update this policy if we change the cookies we use. If we add new types of non-essential cookies, we'll ask for your consent first. For more about how we handle personal information, see our privacy policy.