Cookie Choices

Brightwheel Brighton uses a small number of cookies to make our website function properly and to understand how visitors interact with it. This page explains what those cookies do, how long they remain active, and what choices you have about them. We follow guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and align with UK GDPR principles of necessity, transparency, and user control.

1. What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites you visit. They help sites remember preferences, track usage for statistics, or maintain logged-in sessions. Some cookies are essential to make a website work; others are optional and can be declined without affecting basic navigation.

2. Our Use of Cookies

We group our cookies into three categories:

• Essential cookies: required for booking forms, language consistency, and session stability. Without these, the site may not display correctly or may forget form entries during navigation.
• Performance cookies: used to understand how many visitors view particular sections (e.g., “Brighton Routes”). These are aggregated and anonymous; we do not profile or track individuals.
• Preference cookies: optional settings that remember your consent choices so you’re not asked repeatedly.

3. Specific Cookies in Use

Examples include:

• crumb_session – keeps your form data stable while moving between pages; expires after 1 hour.
• consent_state – stores your cookie acceptance or rejection; expires after 6 months.
• analytics_visit – anonymous visit counter; helps us monitor website load and performance; expires after 30 days.

4. Managing Cookies

You can control cookies through your browser settings or through our on-page cookie banner (“Cookies & Controls”). Clicking “Accept” allows all non-essential cookies; clicking “Decline” loads only the necessary ones. You can revisit this choice anytime by clearing browser data or reopening the banner from the footer link.

5. Third-Party Cookies

We avoid embedded marketing or social media trackers. Our only external service is anonymous performance analytics (such as Plausible or a similar GDPR-compliant provider). No advertising cookies or behaviour-based profiling tools are in use.

6. Legal Basis

Under UK GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), we use cookies based on consent (for optional ones) or legitimate interest (for essential operation). You always have the right to withdraw consent.

7. Disabling Cookies

If you disable all cookies in your browser, some parts of our site may not remember your session, and forms might reset on submission errors. However, you’ll still be able to read pages and contact us directly via email or phone.

8. More Information

For further details, you can contact us:

• Brightwheel Brighton
• 22 Trafalgar Street, Brighton BN1 4EQ, England
• [email protected]
• Phone: +44 1273 680 914