Cookie Policy

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device to remember information about you or your visit. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage, pixels and fingerprinting techniques.

2. What we use on sandbanksdigital.com

This website is deliberately lightweight and sets no cookies at all. We do not use Facebook Pixel, Google Ads remarketing tags, behavioural advertising trackers, or any first-party tracking cookie, and we store nothing in your browser's local or session storage unless you ask us to stop counting your visits (section 4). If you arrive from an ad or campaign link and send us an enquiry, the campaign reference (for example a utm_ tag or a gclid) is read from the web address at the moment you send it, so we can attribute the enquiry to the right source. Nothing about that is stored on your device.

The only category involved is:

• Analytics, without cookies: we measure traffic with Umami, which we host ourselves at analytics.sandbanksdigital.com, on servers in the EU (the Netherlands). It sets no cookies and writes nothing to your device. Its script reads two things from your browser: your screen size, and whether you have switched counting off (section 4). It does not store your IP address. Your IP address and browser type are used for a moment, on our server, to estimate your approximate location and to work out a one-way code that groups your page views together. The code is specific to this website and changes at the start of each calendar month: visits from the same browser and connection within a month share it, but we cannot link your visits across months or to other websites. It records the pages you view (including anything after a ? in the web address, such as a campaign tag or an ad click reference like gclid), the page you came from, your approximate location (country, region and city), and your browser, operating system, device type, screen size and language.

3. Third parties

Our website analytics run on Umami, which we host ourselves on our own infrastructure (analytics.sandbanksdigital.com). Your usage data is not shared with a third-party analytics provider such as Google, and no analytics cookies are set. We no longer use Google Analytics; our comparison of Umami and Google Analytics explains why.

Other third-party embeds we may use occasionally (e.g. an embedded YouTube video on a guide page, or a Google Map on a contact page) can set their own cookies if you interact with them. We avoid these where possible.

4. Turning analytics off, and controlling cookies

We do not show a cookie banner because nothing on this site needs your consent. Our analytics fall under the exemption for statistics in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, as amended by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025: they are used only to count how the site is used so that we can improve it, they are not shared with anyone for their own purposes, and you can object at any time, free of charge, with the switch below.

The switch saves one setting, umami.disabled, in your browser's local storage. That setting is what tells our analytics to stop, and it is the only thing this site stores on your device, only if you use it. It applies to this browser on this device, and clearing this site's data in your browser switches counting back on. Blocking analytics.sandbanksdigital.com with an ad or tracker blocker also stops it.

You can still clear or block cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers let you refuse third-party cookies by default. Doing so will not affect the basic operation of this website.

Useful links:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari
• Edge

5. Changes

If we add new cookies or analytics tools in future, we will update this page and the “Last updated” date at the top.

6. Contact

Questions about cookies? Email [email protected]. See also our Privacy Policy.