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What cookies and similar technologies this website uses, and how you can manage them.
Last updated: 1 August 2026
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, work more efficiently, and to provide information to the site owner. Some cookies are essential for a site to function, while others are used for analytics, preferences, or advertising.
This site stores a small amount of data in your browser to remember your cookie choice, so that we do not have to ask you on every visit. This is essential to the cookie banner working and is not used to track you. Beyond that, we do not currently run analytics, advertising, or tracking cookies, and we never use cookies to track your behaviour across other websites.
| Type | Used on this site? | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Yes | Remembers your cookie consent choice so the banner is not shown on every visit. Stored in your browser and not used to track you. |
| Analytics / performance | Only with your consent | Would measure how visitors use the site so we can improve it. Loaded only if you select “Accept”, and not at all if you decline. |
| Preference | Not used | Would remember choices you've made, such as display settings |
| Advertising / marketing | Not used | Would track visitors for targeted advertising |
When you first visit, a banner lets you accept or decline analytics cookies. No analytics cookies are loaded unless you accept, and declining has no effect on how the site works. You can change your choice at any time using the Cookie Settings link in the footer of any page, or by clearing this site’s data in your browser. If we introduce analytics in future, it will only run on the basis of the consent you give here.
Our contact form on the Contact page submits your enquiry directly to Forminit, a third-party form-processing service, to deliver it to us by email. This submission does not rely on cookies, but Forminit may process the data you submit in accordance with its own privacy practices. See our Privacy Policy for more on how we handle the data you submit through this form.
We do not currently embed third-party content (such as video players, social media widgets, or advertising) that would set its own cookies on this site. If that changes, this policy will be updated to reflect it.
You can also control and delete cookies and similar browser storage at any time through your browser settings. Most browsers let you:
Blocking all cookies may affect the functionality of some websites, though it will not affect this one, as we do not rely on cookies for the site to work.
We may update this cookies policy from time to time, including if we introduce new functionality that relies on cookies. The “last updated” date at the top of this page indicates when it was last revised.
If you have any questions about this cookies policy, please email hello@akvat.co.uk.