Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how The Website Guy uses cookies and similar technologies. It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, and to provide information to the site owner.

The law treats other kinds of browser storage the same way, so this policy covers those too. Most of what we store is not a cookie at all — it is kept in your browser’s own local storage, never sent to us, and readable only by this site on your device.

2. What we store, and why

The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations set out a short list of purposes for which something can be stored on your device without asking you first. Everything we store falls under one of them, and each is named below so you can see which. Nothing we store is used to track you, build a profile, or advertise to you.

• Sign-in cookies (set by our authentication provider, Supabase) — keep you signed in and protect your session. Without them you could not log in, or stay logged in. Strictly necessary.
• Your shopping basket on a business’s public shop — so the items you picked survive a page refresh. Cleared once your order goes through. Strictly necessary.
• A note that you have seen this message — so it stops appearing on every page. There is no way to remember your choice without remembering something. Strictly necessary.
• Your light or dark appearance setting — stored only if you actually change it, so the site looks the way you left it. Appearance.
• How far you got through the guided tour — so a walkthrough you have already finished does not start again from the beginning. Appearance and functionality.

Only the first of those is an actual cookie. The rest live in your browser’s local storage and are never transmitted to us.

2a. Saying no to the last two

The last two rely on the appearance exception, which comes with a condition: you must have a simple and free way to object. You do.

• The appearance setting is only ever stored if you change it. Leave it alone and nothing is written. Set it back to the default and the stored value goes with it.
• Dismissing the guided tour stops it being tracked. You can also close it at any point and it will not follow you.
• Clearing your browser data for this site removes all of it — at the cost of signing you out.
• The record that you have finished a guided tour is also kept against your account, so clearing your browser would not reach it. Ask us at Contact address not published yet and we will clear that. Your appearance setting is only ever held in your own browser, so there is nothing on our side to clear.

We do not use analytics, advertising, or third-party tracking cookies anywhere, and there is no third-party monitoring or session recording in the product. When you pay, you are taken to Stripe, which sets its own cookies on its own pages to process the payment securely and prevent fraud; those are governed by Stripe’s cookie and privacy notices.

If a business’s public site shows an embedded video, nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. Until then no request reaches them, so they set nothing. Press play and YouTube may set its own cookies to play the video.

3. If this changes

If in future we introduce non-essential cookies (for example, analytics), we will update this policy and ask for your consent before setting them, in line with UK law.

4. Managing cookies

You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking our essential cookies will stop you from being able to sign in and use the Service.

5. Contact

Questions about our use of cookies? Contact us at Contact address not published yet.