Cookie Policy

Last updated: January 2025

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, remember your preferences, and provide information to website owners about how visitors use their site.

This policy explains how TradieToolBox, a trading name of [YOUR COMPANY NAME LTD], uses cookies on this website and how you can control them.

2. Cookies we use

Strictly necessary cookies

Always active — cannot be disabled

sessionMaintains your login session · Session
csrf_tokenProtects against cross-site request forgery attacks · Session
consentStores your cookie consent preferences · 12 months

Analytics cookies

Require your consent

_gaGoogle Analytics — distinguishes unique users · 2 years
_ga_*Google Analytics — maintains session state · 2 years
_gidGoogle Analytics — distinguishes users (short-term) · 24 hours
_gatGoogle Analytics — throttles request rate · 1 minute

We do not currently use advertising, targeting, or social media cookies. If this changes, we will update this policy and ask for your consent before setting any new cookie types.

3. How Google Analytics uses your data

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website — for example, which pages are visited most, where visitors come from, and how long they stay. This helps us improve the site.

Google Analytics collects data including your IP address (which is anonymised before storage), browser type, device type, and pages visited. This data is processed by Google in accordance with their privacy policy. We do not use Google Analytics to identify individual users or combine analytics data with any personal data we hold about you.

You can opt out of Google Analytics across all websites by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

4. Your consent

When you first visit our website, you will be shown a cookie banner asking for your consent to set analytics cookies. Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent as they are essential for the website to function.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the "Cookie settings" link in the footer of this website. Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that took place before you withdrew it.

5. How to control cookies in your browser

You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Please be aware that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of this website.

6. Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "last updated" date. If we introduce new types of cookies that require your consent, we will notify you via the cookie banner.

7. Contact

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, contact us at privacy@tradietoolbox.co.uk.