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Cookie policy

This website is deliberately built without advertising, tracking or third-party analytics. The result is that there is very little to tell you — but you are entitled to know exactly what is stored, so here it is.

Version
1.0
Last reviewed
Next review due
Non-essential cookies
None in use

What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store and send back on later visits. Related technologies — local storage, session storage and similar — store data in your browser without sending it back automatically. UK law treats them together, so this policy covers all of them.

Storage that is strictly necessary to provide a service you have asked for does not require consent. Everything else does, and consent must be freely given, specific and as easy to withdraw as it was to give.

What this website stores

One item, and only if you visit the cookie settings and record a preference.

Name Type Purpose Retention Party
axcs_cookie_preferences Local storage Records your cookie category choices so you are not asked again 182 days First party

This value never leaves your browser. It is read by the website's own JavaScript and is not transmitted to us or to anyone else.

Our hosting platform may also set a short-lived cookie for security or load balancing as part of serving the page. This is strictly necessary for the website to work and carries no information about you.

Why there is no banner

Consent banners exist because websites set non-essential cookies. This one does not, so a banner would ask you to make a decision that has no effect — which is friction without benefit, and arguably misleading.

If we ever introduce analytics, marketing or embedded third-party media, we will enable a consent mechanism at the same time and update this policy before those changes go live.

Cookie categories

The cookie settings panel offers four categories. Only the first is currently in use; the others are defined so that the mechanism is ready if it is ever needed.

Essential
Needed for the website to function, including remembering your cookie choices and keeping the site secure. These cannot be switched off.
Functional
Remember choices you make, such as interface preferences. None are currently in use.
Analytics
Aggregate, non-identifying usage statistics. None are currently in use.
Marketing
Used to measure campaign effectiveness. We do not build advertising profiles, and none are currently in use.

All optional categories default to off. Nothing in a non-essential category is loaded before you have actively consented to it.

Third-party content

This website loads no third-party scripts, fonts, maps, video embeds or social media widgets. All fonts are those already installed on your device, and all images are served from our own domain.

This is a deliberate design decision. Embedded third-party content is the most common route by which tracking enters an otherwise privacy-respecting website, usually without anyone intending it.

Managing storage in your browser

You can delete or block cookies and site data at any time through your browser settings, usually under privacy or site permissions. Blocking storage for this site will simply mean your cookie preference is forgotten between visits; nothing else will break.

The following resources explain browser controls in more detail. They are maintained by their respective publishers and we do not control their contents.

If this changes

If we introduce any non-essential cookie or third-party script, we will update this policy and the privacy notice before it goes live, enable the consent mechanism, and set all optional categories to off by default.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to privacy@axolotlcs.com, or by post to Suite A James Carter Road, Mildenhall, Bury St. Edmunds, England, IP28 7DE.