Last updated: August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies may be used when you visit my website.
It should be read alongside my Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how I collect, use and protect personal information.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device when you visit them.
They can be used for a variety of purposes, including making a website function correctly, remembering your preferences, understanding how people use a website and supporting third-party services embedded within a website.
Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser, while others remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
How this website uses cookies
This website may use several types of cookies:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function correctly.
They may be used for purposes such as website security, navigation, remembering privacy preferences, processing bookings or enabling other functionality you have requested.
Because these cookies are necessary for the website to operate or provide a service you have requested, they do not generally require consent.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help me understand how visitors use my website, for example which pages are visited, how visitors navigate between pages and how the website is performing.
This information can help me understand what content is useful and improve the website and services I provide.
Where required by law, analytics cookies will only be used with your consent.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies may remember choices you make or enable additional website features.
They may also be used by third-party services embedded within the website, such as booking systems, videos, maps or other interactive content.
Where consent is required, these cookies will not be activated until you have agreed to their use.
Marketing Cookies
If marketing or advertising technologies are used on this website, cookies may be used to understand how visitors interact with the website or to support relevant advertising.
Where these cookies are used, they will only be activated with your consent where required by law.
Third-Party Cookies
Some features of this website may be provided by third-party services.
For example, this could include services used for:
- website hosting;
- bookings and event registration;
- payment processing;
- embedded videos or media;
- maps;
- email or mailing-list subscriptions; and
- website analytics.
These providers may place their own cookies or use similar technologies when you interact with their services.
Where appropriate, information about these cookies will be available through the website’s cookie-consent tool and the relevant provider’s own privacy or cookie information.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit the website, you may be given the opportunity to choose whether to accept non-essential cookies.
You can change or withdraw your consent where the website’s cookie-management system allows this.
You can also manage cookies through your web browser, including viewing, blocking or deleting cookies.
Blocking some cookies may affect how certain parts of the website function.
How Long Cookies Are Stored
Different cookies remain on your device for different periods.
Some are session cookies and disappear when you close your browser. Others are persistent cookies and remain for a specified period unless you delete them earlier.
Where available, more detailed information about individual cookies and their duration can be found through the website’s cookie settings.
Your Personal Information
Where information collected through cookies can identify you or otherwise constitutes personal data, it will be handled in accordance with applicable UK data protection law and my Privacy Policy.
I do not sell your personal information.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
I may update this Cookie Policy if the technologies or services used on the website change or to reflect changes in legal requirements.
The latest version will be published on this page with the date it was last updated.
Contact
If you have questions about how cookies or personal information are used on this website, please contact:
Carrie Wilson
Carrie@carrie-wilson.co.uk