Cookies

What we set

• A session cookie when you sign in, so the dashboard knows who you are. It is removed when you sign out.
• A short-lived booking cookie while a customer is part-way through booking, so refreshing the page does not lose the slot they picked.

That is the entire list. No advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no fingerprinting, and no analytics.

Why there is no banner

Regulation 5 of S.I. 336/2011 requires consent before storing information on somebody’s device. Regulation 5(5) exempts storage that is “strictly necessary in order to provide an information society service explicitly requested”. A login session and a half-finished booking are exactly that.

Analytics is not covered by that exemption. The Data Protection Commission is clear that analytics needs prior opt-in consent, with a reject option as prominent as accept and nothing firing before the user chooses. We would rather not have the banner than have the pageview counts, so we do not run analytics on this site.

If that ever changes, a banner appears before the first non-essential cookie is set, and this page changes with it.

The booking widget on your own website

If you embed our booking widget in your shop’s website, the widget itself sets nothing beyond the strictly necessary booking cookie above. That means it does not, on its own, oblige you to add a consent banner to your site. Anything else on your page is your own to assess.