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Cookies, andwhat we don't do

Most cookie policies are written to be survived rather than read. This one lists every cookie we set, what it does, how long it lasts and how to refuse it — and, just as importantly, the categories we have chosen not to use at all.

Effective15 August 2026Version3.0Sections6

At a glance

  • No advertising cookies. No retargeting pixels. No data brokers.
  • Analytics cookies only load after you accept them.
  • Refusing analytics has no effect on how the site works.
  • You can change your choice at any time from the cookie banner.
01

What a Cookie Actually Is

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store. On your next visit, the browser hands it back, which lets the site recognise the same device and remember things like your language or whether you already dismissed a banner. Cookies cannot read your files, cannot run programs, and cannot access anything on your device beyond what the site itself put there. Similar technologies — local storage, pixels, tags — do broadly the same job, and where we mention 'cookies' below we mean those too.

02

The Cookies We Set

Strictly necessary — always on

These make the site function. They cannot be switched off, and they set no identifier that follows you anywhere else.

  • Cookie-consent record — stores whether you accepted or declined analytics, so the banner does not reappear on every page. Lasts 6 months.
  • Session and security tokens — protect form submissions from cross-site abuse. Expire when you close the browser.

Analytics — only with your consent

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages are read, how people arrive, and where they give up. IP addresses are truncated before storage and we have not enabled advertising features, audience export or Google Signals.

  • _ga — distinguishes one browser from another so a returning visit is not counted as a new one. Lasts up to 24 months.
  • _ga_<container> — holds the session state for this property. Lasts up to 24 months.

Functional

Where the site remembers a preference — a chosen clinic on the map, a dismissed notice — that preference is held for the session only. We do not build a profile from it.

03

What We Have Chosen Not to Use

This section matters more than the one above. We do not use:

  • Advertising or retargeting cookies. Nobody is following you around the internet with an advert for a root canal.
  • Meta Pixel, TikTok Pixel, or any other social advertising tag.
  • Cross-site tracking, fingerprinting, or device-graph identifiers.
  • Data brokers, audience marketplaces, or any onward sale of visitor data.
  • Session recording or heatmap tools that replay what an individual visitor did on the page.

This is a deliberate choice about a health website. Someone reading a page about a dental abscess at two in the morning should not have that interest follow them into their social media feed.

04

Third-Party Content

Google Maps

Our contact and location pages embed a Google map. Loading it means Google receives your IP address and may set its own cookies under its own policy. If you would rather not load it, the addresses are also written out in plain text on every location page and in the footer.

Google Fonts

Typefaces are served from Google's font service. This sets no cookie, but the request does reach Google's servers.

WhatsApp and phone links

Our WhatsApp and call buttons are ordinary links. Nothing is transmitted until you tap one, at which point your own app opens and WhatsApp's terms apply to the conversation.

05

Refusing and Deleting Cookies

On this site

The banner on your first visit lets you accept or decline analytics. Decline and no analytics cookie is set at all. To change your mind later, clear this site's cookies in your browser and the banner will ask again.

In your browser

Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies, usually under Settings → Privacy. Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge all also offer a private-browsing mode that discards cookies when the window closes.

What breaks if you block everything

Almost nothing here. Blocking all cookies means the consent banner will reappear on each visit, because the record of your choice is itself a cookie. The site is otherwise fully usable — content, booking and contact details all work without any cookie at all.

Want your choice changed?

Clear this site's cookies in your browser and the banner will ask again on your next visit. If anything here is unclear, email us and we will explain it properly.

9:00 AM – 11:00 PM, seven days a week at all three clinics, including public holidays. We are not a 24-hour service. WhatsApp us.