Featherstone Safety
Cookie Policy
This policy explains how Featherstone Safety Hub uses cookies and similar technologies, what choices you have, and how to manage your preferences.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help the website recognise your device on subsequent visits and can store preferences or session information. Cookies cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your device.
Similar technologies, such as local storage and session storage, may also be used for equivalent purposes and are covered by this policy.
2. Cookies we use
2.1 Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the platform to function and cannot be switched off. They are set in response to actions you take, such as logging in, setting your privacy preferences, or completing forms. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, such as maintaining a logged-in session, cannot be provided.
No consent is required for strictly necessary cookies.
- Session authentication: maintains your logged-in session (set by Supabase, our authentication and database provider).
- Security tokens: protects against cross-site request forgery.
- Cookie consent record: stores your cookie preference so you are not asked again unnecessarily.
2.2 Analytics cookies
The Featherstone Safety Hub platform (featherstonesafetyhub.co.uk) does not currently use analytics or marketing cookies. If this changes, this policy will be updated and your consent will be sought before any analytics cookies are placed.
The Featherstone Safety marketing website (featherstonesafety.co.uk) uses Google Analytics to measure how the site is used, and Google Ads to measure the results of our advertising. Analytics and advertising cookies are placed only if you accept them. Both are loaded with storage consent denied by default, so no analytics or advertising cookies are set unless and until you choose to accept. A short banner asks for that choice on your first visit and your choice is remembered in your browser. Some features on the site are also embedded from third parties, which are listed in section 2.4 below.
2.3 Marketing and advertising cookies
We do not currently use marketing or advertising cookies on this platform. If this changes, this policy will be updated and your consent will be sought before any such cookies are placed.
2.4 Third-party and embedded cookies
Some functionality on this platform may be provided by third parties. These third parties may set their own cookies. We do not control third-party cookies. Current third-party services that may set cookies include:
- Supabase: authentication and data storage. See Supabase Privacy Policy.
- Stripe: payment processing (on billing pages only). See Stripe Privacy Policy.
- Vercel: hosting and infrastructure. See Vercel Privacy Policy.
On the marketing website (featherstonesafety.co.uk) the third parties are different:
- Enquiry form: the enquiry form on this website is part of the site itself and sets no cookies or other browser storage. Submissions are received by Netlify, our website host, and forwarded to us by email.
- Reputation review widget: displays our published client reviews on the reviews page.
- Google Fonts: supplies the typefaces used across the site. Google receives your IP address in order to serve the font files. See the Google Fonts privacy note.
- Netlify: hosting for the marketing website. See Netlify Privacy Policy.
- Google Analytics: measures how the marketing website is used, so we can see which pages are helpful. Analytics cookies are set only if you accept them. See Google Privacy Policy.
- Google Ads: measures the results of our advertising, so we can see which ads lead to enquiries. Advertising cookies are set only if you accept them. See Google Ads privacy note.
3. Your choices and how to manage cookies
3.1 Cookie preferences
Where we use non-essential cookies, you can choose to accept or decline them. On the Featherstone Safety Hub platform you can update your preferences at any time using the Cookie Settings link in the footer.
On the marketing website, analytics and advertising cookies are set only if you accept them in the cookie banner. If you decline, none are placed. To change your choice later, clear this site's stored data in your browser and the banner will appear again on your next visit. Cookies set inside an embedded third-party feature are governed by that provider, and can be managed using the browser controls in section 3.2.
Declining non-essential cookies will not affect your ability to use the core platform. Strictly necessary cookies cannot be disabled as the platform cannot function without them.
3.2 Browser controls
You can also manage cookies directly through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
- See what cookies are set and delete them individually
- Block third-party cookies
- Block all cookies (note: this may prevent the platform from working correctly)
- Delete all cookies when you close your browser
For instructions, visit the help pages of your browser:
4. Changes to this policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Material changes will be notified by a notice on the platform or by email to registered users. The date at the top of this page shows when the policy was last updated.
5. Contact us
If you have questions about our use of cookies, please contact us:
Featherstone Safety Ltd
Email: thomas@featherstonesafetyhub.co.uk