1. What cookies and browser storage are
Cookies are small text records a website asks your browser to store. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage and identifiers used to maintain a secure session or remember a choice. Some last only for the browser session; others remain until they expire or you remove them.
These technologies do not automatically tell us everything about you. The information depends on the particular cookie, the page or account being used, and the service that set it.
2. Strictly necessary use
Necessary cookies or storage may be used to provide a feature you request, keep sign-in and security flows working, route traffic, prevent abuse, remember a privacy choice, maintain a form or booking step, and keep the service stable.
They are not used simply because measurement or advertising would be convenient. Blocking them may stop sign-in, booking, preference or security features from working correctly.
3. Optional categories
Depending on the page and the features enabled, additional categories may include:
- Preferences: remembering non-essential display or experience choices;
- Analytics: understanding aggregated visits, navigation and performance so a website can be improved;
- Marketing: measuring campaigns or making advertising more relevant; and
- Embedded content: enabling maps, video, social or other third-party content that may set its own storage.
Where consent is required for an optional category, it should remain off until a valid choice is recorded. Rejecting optional categories should not be treated as rejecting the core service.
4. Third-party services
A link, embedded feature or connected service may take you to or load content from another provider. That provider may use its own cookies under its own notice. Examples can include payment, map, video, social, support or authentication services, but only the services actually enabled on the page will be involved.
Following a normal link to another website means your activity there is governed by that website's choices and notices.
5. Your choices
If a PopUsIn page presents cookie controls, use them to accept, reject or adjust the optional categories offered on that page. You can also remove or block cookies through your browser settings. Browser controls vary, so use the help information supplied by your browser or device.
Removing cookies can also remove a saved preference, sign you out or reset part of a journey. A privacy or “do not track” signal is not interpreted consistently by every browser and third-party service, so the controls shown on the page and in your browser remain important.
6. How long cookies last
Session cookies normally end when the browser session ends. Persistent cookies remain for the period set by the relevant service or until you delete them. Security, account and preference records can have different durations.
The exact technologies may change as the platform and its providers change. We avoid publishing a static cookie-name table that would imply an expired identifier is still in use; a page-level preference tool or technical inspection can provide the current browser record where available.
7. Personal information
Where cookie or browser information can identify or relate to a person, it is handled as described in the Privacy notice. Businesses using PopUsIn may also publish their own notice for their customer-facing website.
8. Changes and contact
We may update this notice when browser technology, enabled services or legal requirements change. The date at the top identifies the current published version.
Questions can be sent to hello@popusin.co.uk or through the contact page. The general rules for using PopUsIn are in the Website & platform terms.