Cookie Policy

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files a website stores on your device. They let a site remember things between page views or visits — a preference you set, for example. Similar technologies such as local storage do much the same job, and we use the term "cookies" to cover both on this page.

2. Our approach

We use as few cookies as we reasonably can. We do not use advertising cookies, tracking pixels, or social media trackers anywhere on this site.

3. Strictly necessary storage

This is the only storage that is always active. It cannot be switched off, because without it the site cannot remember the choice you made.

This item stores a single word — analytics or necessary. It contains no personal information and is never sent to us or to anyone else. It stays in your own browser.

4. Analytics cookies

These load only if you accept them. We use Google Analytics to understand how people find and use our website — which pages are popular, and where visitors leave. This helps us improve the site. We have IP anonymization turned on, so your full IP address is not stored by Google.

Google acts as our data processor for this information. You can read Google's own explanation at policies.google.com/technologies/cookies, and you can opt out of Google Analytics in every website you visit with Google's browser opt-out add-on.

5. What we don't use

For clarity, this website does not use:

• Advertising or retargeting cookies
• Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or other social media tracking pixels
• Cross-site tracking of any kind
• Fingerprinting or session-recording tools
• Cookies that profile you or build an advertising audience

We do not sell or share any data from this website with advertisers or data brokers.

6. Third-party content

Some parts of our site load content from other organizations. These do not set tracking cookies, but the request itself does reveal your IP address to the provider, which is how the internet delivers any file:

• OpenStreetMap — supplies the map tiles for our service-area map.
• Google Fonts — supplies the typefaces used across the site.
• unpkg — supplies the Leaflet mapping library that draws the map.

These providers have their own privacy policies, which we do not control.

7. Managing your choices

You can change your mind at any time — there is no penalty and nothing on the site stops working.

• Click "Cookie settings" in the footer of any page to bring the banner back.
• Choose "Necessary only" to stop analytics from loading on future page views.
• Choose "Accept analytics" if you are happy to help us understand site usage.

If you have already accepted and then switch to necessary only, clearing your browser cookies will also remove the Google Analytics cookies already set. See section 8.

Open cookie settings →

8. Browser controls

Your browser also lets you block or delete cookies for any site. Blocking all cookies may break features on many websites, though on ours it only means the banner will reappear each visit.

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari
• Microsoft Edge

Most browsers also offer a "Do Not Track" setting. There is still no agreed industry standard for how sites should respond to it, so we do not rely on it — our banner choice is what governs analytics on this site.

9. Changes to this policy

If we add or remove a cookie, we will update the tables on this page and revise the "Last updated" date. If we ever introduce a new category of optional cookie, we will ask for your consent again before it runs.