A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to store. Some are needed for a shop to function at all; others are optional. Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we have to ask before setting the optional ones, so we do.
1. Strictly necessary
These are set because the site cannot work without them. They do not need your consent and there is no way to turn them off while still using the shop.
| Name | Set by | What it does | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
chinup-consent | ChinUp | Remembers whether you accepted or declined analytics. Stored in your browser's local storage rather than a cookie, so recording a refusal does not itself set a cookie | Until you clear your browser data |
__stripe_mid, __stripe_sid | Stripe | Fraud prevention on the checkout. Stripe uses them to tell a genuine payment from an automated one | 1 year and 30 minutes respectively |
Payment happens on Stripe's own hosted page, so Stripe may set further cookies of its own once you leave our site. Those are covered by the Stripe cookie policy.
2. Analytics, only if you accept
We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages people actually read. It tells us whether a reel sent anyone to the site. It does not tell us who you are, and we have advertising storage switched off, so nothing here feeds remarketing.
| Name | Set by | What it does | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | Distinguishes one visitor from another | 2 years |
_ga_<container-id> | Google Analytics | Keeps the session state | 2 years |
The Google Analytics tag is not downloaded at all until you accept. If you decline, the script is never requested and any old _ga cookies on this domain are deleted. Data is kept for 14 months, then removed automatically. Google's own explanation is in Google's cookie notice.
3. What we do not use
No advertising or remarketing pixels. No Meta pixel. No cross-site tracking, no fingerprinting, no session recording or heatmaps, no A/B testing tools, no chat widget. If that changes, this page changes first and the banner asks again.
4. Change your choice
Use the button below to bring the banner back and pick again. It appears once analytics have been configured on the site.
You can also clear or block cookies in your browser. Every major browser lets you do this in its privacy settings, and blocking everything will break the checkout, which is a browser-level decision rather than something we control.
5. Fonts and other third parties
Typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts. That is not a cookie, but your browser makes a request to Google's servers, which means Google receives your IP address. Product images and the site itself are served from our own hosting.
6. More detail
What we do with the data behind these cookies is set out in the privacy policy. For anything else, email support@sitework.uk.
ChinUp, a trading name of Jacob Orsborn-Smith, sole trader, United Kingdom. Email support@sitework.uk.