Cookie Policy

This policy explains how Shays Media uses cookies and similar storage or access technologies on its website.

What these technologies are

Cookies and similar technologies — including pixels, tags and scripts — can store or access information on a visitor’s device. Some are necessary for a website to work; others may support analytics, advertising measurement or additional features.

Current position

This website uses Vercel Web Analytics to understand aggregate page-view traffic and completion of a small number of key journey steps (such as completing the Fit Check or submitting an enquiry), tracked only by outcome category — never by name, email or answer content. It is a cookieless analytics service — it does not set cookies or store anything on your device. This website does not load any advertising-measurement technologies.

Shays Media uses Google services for business storage and Zoho Mail for email, but using these providers for our own business administration does not, by itself, mean this website sets browser cookies from them.

Advertising and conversion measurement

Shays Media may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts or server-side conversion measurement to understand whether advertising leads to meaningful actions, such as a submitted Manual Review request.

If Shays Media introduces non-essential tracking, advertising measurement or conversion measurement in future, this Cookie Policy and any required consent controls will be updated before those technologies are used.

The specific technologies currently active on this website are described below and will be updated whenever the implementation changes.

Currently active

We do not currently use any advertising-measurement or conversion-measurement technologies on this website. (For the page-view analytics service now in use, see the Technology table below.) When additional technologies are introduced, we will update this policy with details of the provider, purpose, category, duration and whether consent is required.

Necessary vs non-essential

Strictly necessary technologies may be used for core functions such as security, fraud prevention, load balancing, session continuity or recording your consent preferences. Strictly necessary does not mean merely useful to Shays Media.

Non-essential technologies — such as analytics or advertising measurement — will only be activated in accordance with your consent choices, where consent is required. Refusing non-essential technologies will not prevent access to ordinary website content.

Your choices

Vercel Web Analytics does not use cookies or store anything on your device, so there is nothing to accept or reject for it. There are currently no advertising-measurement technologies, and no optional cookies, on this website. The website's banner explains this current position.

You can reopen Cookie settings from the website footer at any time to see the banner and the current cookie information again. You can also use your browser settings to delete or block cookies, though this may affect some website functionality.

If optional or non-essential technologies are introduced in future, appropriate consent choices will be provided before they are activated, where consent is required.

Technology table

The table below lists the non-essential technologies currently active on this website. The site also uses local browser storage, separately from any of these, to remember your cookie-information preference on your own device. This section will be updated if new technologies are introduced.

Contact

Questions about privacy or cookies: privacy@shaysmedia.co.uk