Cookie Policy
This page lists the cookies and similar technologies used on vinula.co.uk, what each one does, how long it lasts and how to change your choices. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers what we do with personal information more generally.
What these technologies are
A cookie is a small file a website stores on your device. Similar technologies include local storage, pixels and tracking scripts, which do comparable things. We use the word cookies below to cover all of them. The law that applies here is not only about cookies: it covers anything stored on or read from your device.
Your choices
When you first arrive we ask what you are happy with. Only the essential category is used unless you turn something else on. Nothing is switched on in advance, refusing is one press in the same place as accepting, and refusing costs you nothing: every page works exactly the same either way.
You can change your mind whenever you like using the Cookie settings link at the foot of every page. Turning a category off deletes the cookies it set as well as stopping any new ones. If you close the banner without choosing, nothing optional is used.
We ask again after about 6 months, and straight away if we add a new tool, because a choice you made a long time ago about a different list of cookies is not really a choice about this one.
The categories
There are two, because there are only two things this site actually does. We have deliberately not shown you a row for advertising or for preferences: this site runs no advertising and stores no display preference, and an empty switch would be a claim about the site that is not true.
Essential (always on)
Needed for the site to work and for security. These are set either by us or by Cloudflare, who serve and protect the site. They cannot be switched off, and nothing here is used to track you.
| Name | Set by | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
vn_consent | Vinula InfoSec (this website) | Remembers the cookie choice you made on this banner, so we do not ask again on every page. It records the choice, the date and the version of the cookie list, and nothing that identifies you. | 6 months |
begin-a11y-v1 | Vinula InfoSec (this website) | Remembers the display options you chose (text size, text spacing, simpler typeface, higher contrast, reduced transparency, stronger focus outline, underlined links, reduced motion and larger tap targets) so the site looks the same next time you visit on this device. Stored in your browser's local storage and never sent to a server. | Until you press Reset all, or clear your browser storage |
| Cloudflare Turnstile challenge storage | Cloudflare | Used only on the contact page, to check that the form is being filled in by a person rather than by software. It is stored against Cloudflare's own challenges.cloudflare.com address rather than against this site, and it protects a form you chose to use. | Cleared when the check finishes |
Analytics (off unless you turn it on)
Google Analytics, which tells us how many people visit, which pages they read, how far down each page they get, which buttons they press, how they got on with the enquiry form, and roughly which town they are in. It also reports how quickly pages loaded for you and whether anything on the page broke. We use it to work out which pages are worth keeping and what to fix. We have not switched on the parts of it that link to your Google account or to advertising, and advertising storage stays refused even when you turn this on. It is off until you turn it on, and the site works exactly the same either way.
| Name | Set by | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | Gives your browser a random identifier so repeat visits can be counted as one visitor rather than several. | 13 months |
_ga_G2ZE8EDKYQ | Google Analytics | Keeps track of a single visit, so a series of page views is counted as one session. | 13 months |
What Analytics records, if you turn it on
The list above says what is stored on your device. This one says what is recorded about how you used the site, which is a different question and probably the more useful one. None of it happens unless you turn Analytics on, and none of it identifies you.
We do not send your name, email address, telephone number or anything you type into the enquiry form to Google. Where the list mentions a form field, what is recorded is the field's name, so that we can see which field rejected people. What you entered into it is never included. The technical name of each measurement is given so that anyone can check this page against what the site actually does.
| Name | What is recorded | Why |
|---|---|---|
page_view | Which page you opened, its address and title, where you arrived from, and your device, browser and rough location. Sent by Google Analytics itself rather than by us. | To see which pages are read and which are ignored. |
page_type | Which kind of page each of the measurements below happened on, for example a service page, an article or the contact page. Recorded alongside every other event rather than on its own. | So that pages can be compared as groups. With a few dozen visitors a month, one page on its own never says anything reliable. |
scroll_depth | How far down a page you got, recorded at a quarter, half, three quarters and nearly the end. | To find out whether people are reaching the part of the page that asks them to get in touch. |
engaged_view | That you stayed on a page for at least half a minute and read past the halfway point. | To tell a page that was genuinely read from one that was opened and closed. |
cta_click | Which button you pressed, its wording, and whereabouts on the page it was. | To compare the same invitation in different places, so we can stop showing the ones nobody uses. |
phone_call_click | That a telephone number on the site was tapped or clicked. | To count the people who chose to ring instead of filling in a form. |
email_click | That an email address on the site was clicked. | Same reason: it is an enquiry we would otherwise never count. |
review_interaction | That you followed a link to somewhere our reviews are published. | To see how many people check what others say before getting in touch. |
form_start | That you began filling in the enquiry form. Not what you typed. | To measure how many people who start an enquiry go on to finish it. |
form_error | The NAME of a form field that was rejected and the kind of problem, for example that it was required or the wrong format. Never the value you entered. | A field that rejects lots of people is usually our fault, and this is the only way we would find out. |
form_abandon | That you began the enquiry form and left the page without sending it, and how many fields had been filled in. | To find out whether the form itself is losing enquiries, which is where most lost enquiries are. |
generate_lead | That an enquiry was sent successfully, with the service and sector you picked from the menus. Nothing you typed is included. | This is the one thing the site exists to do, and until now nothing counted it. |
web_vitals | How quickly the page appeared and responded for you, and whether it moved about while loading. | To fix slow pages using real visits rather than a laboratory test on our own machines. |
js_error | The text of any error the page produced in your browser, and which file it came from. No stack trace and nothing about you. | So that something broken in one browser shows up as a number instead of as an unexplained quiet month. |
This information is held in Google Analytics, where both the event records and the record of a returning visitor are kept for 14 months. We have not switched on the features that link Analytics to a Google account or to advertising, and advertising storage is refused even when you turn Analytics on, so no advertising cookie is set at any point.
Cookies set by other companies
These are the only other companies involved, and no one else is allowed to set cookies on this website.
- Google (Analytics and Tag Manager): Measures how the site is used. Loaded only if you turn Analytics on. Their privacy information.
- Cloudflare: Serves the site, protects it from attack, and runs the anti-spam check on the contact form. Their privacy information.
There are no advertising or remarketing pixels on this site, no session recording or heatmap tools, no chat widget, and no embedded videos or maps. Our fonts are served from this website rather than from a font company, so loading a page sends nothing to one.
Managing cookies in your browser
You can also stop or delete cookies through your browser settings. Doing that may affect how this and other websites work. Your browser's help pages explain how, and the Information Commissioner's Office publishes plain guidance on cookies and similar technologies.
Changes to this page
We review this page whenever we add or remove a tool, and at least once a year. The date at the foot of this page is when it last changed.
- 16 August 2026: added the list of what Analytics records. The cookies themselves did not change and no new company is involved, but we now measure more than page views: how far people scroll, which buttons they press, how they get on with the enquiry form, and whether pages were slow or broken. Because that is a wider purpose than before, we are asking everyone for their choice again rather than relying on one made against the shorter list. We also told Google to refuse advertising storage even when Analytics is on.
- 12 August 2026: first full version. Replaced a placeholder page. A consent banner was added at the same time; before that, Google Analytics ran on every page without asking.
Last updated 12 August 2026.