What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help the site remember your preferences.
How we use cookies
We use cookies and browser storage to remember your consent and theme choices, enable the booking calendar and, if you accept analytics, understand visits and selected homepage interactions.
Google Analytics and PostHog run only after you press Accept or return with a saved acceptance. Reject keeps both switched off. Essential website requests and a booking service you open still work. You can withdraw consent using Cookie settings.
Analytics measure page visits, with browser and device details, referring pages and approximate location. Google Analytics also records basic session and engagement information.
With your consent, we also record when the opening homepage sequence reaches its final state, which What we build link you open, and which example piece you open. Only the relevant page or piece identifier accompanies those interactions. We do not make session recordings or automatically collect other clicks, scrolling or form interactions. Free-tool inputs, results and example text are not sent to analytics.
What we store
- bloosprout-cookie-consent
- Stores your cookie consent choice.
- Until you clear it or the browser removes it.
- Browser storage, essential.
- bloosprout-cookie-consent-denied
- Keeps analytics off when you withdraw consent, including if saving your choice fails.
- Until you save a new choice or close the tab.
- Session storage, essential.
- theme
- Remembers your light or dark theme preference.
- Until you clear it or the browser removes it.
- Browser storage, essential.
- Cal.com cookies
- Booking calendar functionality.
- Session or varying duration, managed by Cal.com.
- Provider cookies when you open the booking service.
- _ga
- Google Analytics: distinguishes browsers.
- Default 2 years.
- Cookie, analytics, only if you accept.
- _ga_(measurement ID)
- Google Analytics: keeps track of your visit.
- Default 2 years.
- Cookie, analytics, only if you accept.
- ph_(key)_posthog
- PostHog: remembers your visit between pages.
- Cookie default 365 days; browser storage until removed.
- Cookie and browser storage, analytics, only if you accept.
The consent and theme preferences are stored in localStorage. A withdrawal marker uses sessionStorage. We do not send those preferences to analytics providers. Analytics identifiers are set only after you accept and are sent with analytics requests.
The durations above are provider defaults. Browser limits can shorten them, and visits can renew cookies. They do not describe how long a provider retains analytics records. See the Google Analytics cookie reference and PostHog cookie settings.
Google Analytics is run by Google, which may process data in the United States and other locations. Our PostHog integration uses its EU servers in Germany. International processing is covered in our Privacy Policy.
Interacting with a booking control can load Cal.com before you complete a booking. Cal.com manages the storage used by its service. See Cal.com's privacy policy for details.
Managing cookies
Cookie settings clears your saved choice and the analytics cookies accessible to this site, removes PostHog browser storage when its integration is loaded, and switches analytics off. Analytics stay off unless you accept again.
This does not erase records already held by Google or PostHog. Contact us to ask about deleting those records.
Most browsers let you block or delete cookies in their settings. Blocking essential cookies may affect booking or other site functions.
More information
For how we handle your personal data, see our Privacy Policy. Questions: vaibhav@bloosprout.co.uk.