Cookie Policy

This policy explains every cookie www.webup.co.uk uses, who sets it, what it is for and how long it lasts. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains what we do with personal information more generally.

The short version: nothing except the cookies we genuinely need to run the site is set unless you tell us it is alright. You can change your mind whenever you like.

Change your cookie settings

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. When you come back, the site can read that file again. Cookies are how a site remembers things between pages and between visits.

Some cookies are set by us. Others are set by companies whose content we have put on our pages, such as YouTube or Google Maps — these are called third-party cookies, and the company that sets them decides what is in them. Similar technologies such as web beacons, pixels and browser storage do much the same job, and everything in this policy applies to those too.

The first time you visit, a banner appears asking what you are happy for us to set. It has three options, all equally easy to use: Accept all, Reject all, and Manage preferences if you would rather choose category by category.

Until you choose, only the strictly necessary cookies in section 3 are set. No analytics, no marketing and no embedded third-party content loads before then. Every optional switch starts turned off, and closing the banner without choosing is not treated as agreement.

Your answer is stored in a cookie on your own device, along with the date you gave it, so that we do not keep asking and so we have a record of what you agreed to. We ask again after six months, or sooner if we add something new.

These are needed for the site to work and to keep it secure. They are not used to track you and cannot be switched off. The law does not require your consent for them, but we still tell you they are there.

These let content hosted by other companies appear on our pages. If you have not accepted this category, that content is replaced by a placeholder with a button to load just that one item — nothing is sent to the company concerned until you press it.

Some of our pages also have a play button that opens a video in a pop-up. Nothing is loaded from YouTube until you press play, so pressing it is your request for that video. We use the no-cookie player there too.

These tell us which pages are read, how people arrive and where they give up, so we can make the site better. We only use this for our own reporting.

Hotjar records anonymised sessions and heatmaps. It is set to mask what you type, so the contents of our contact form are not captured.

If you visited before August 2026 you may still have _gid or _gat_gtag_UA_4241735_10 cookies from our previous Google Analytics setup. We no longer set those, and rejecting analytics removes them.

These let us see whether our advertising works and let the companies below show you our adverts on other sites. They build a picture of your interests across the web, which is why they are off unless you turn them on.

You can change your mind at any time, and it is no harder than saying yes was. Use the button below, or the Cookie Settings link at the bottom of every page.

Change your cookie settings

When you turn a category off we delete the cookies it set and reload the page without the scripts that put them there. Cookies held by a third party on its own domain, such as facebook.com, can only be cleared through your browser or that company's own settings, so section 8 is worth reading if you want to be thorough.

Your browser can block or delete cookies for every site you visit, which gives you the final say regardless of what any website asks for. The steps are published by each browser maker:

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

Blocking everything will stop parts of this and most other websites working properly. Blocking only third-party cookies is usually a good balance.

We review this policy whenever we add or remove anything that sets cookies. If we add something new we will ask for your consent again rather than assume the old answer still applies.

If anything here is unclear, or you think we have got something wrong, please tell us:

• By email at hello@webup.co.uk
• By post to WebUp® Media, 8 Ffordd Pendyffryn, Prestatyn, LL19 9RY

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office. Their details are in section 10 of our Privacy Policy.