Cookie policy
Last updated 4 October 2026
What this website stores on your device, what it is for, and how to change your choice.
Before you choose, or if you decline
Nothing is stored on your device apart from your choice itself. We still count visits and enquiries, and which advert or search brought them, but in memory only, so the count ends when you leave the page.
Google Ads receives cookieless signals with identifiers removed, used only for aggregate measurement. To keep an advert linked to an enquiry without cookies, Google may add its click identifier to the address of the pages you visit next.
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- Remembers whether you accepted or declined, and when.
- Local storage. Kept for 365 days, then we ask again.
If you accept
Two services may store data on your device:
- Google Ads uses a cookie to measure which adverts bring people to HOSS. Ad personalisation stays off: we do not use your visit to show you adverts elsewhere.
- PostHog, hosted in the EU, records how you use this website: the pages you open, what you click and how far you scroll, so we can make it better. The recording leaves out anything you type into a form.
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- Links an enquiry on this site to the advert that brought you here.
- Cookie (Google Ads). Kept for 90 days.
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- Recognises a returning visitor so visits can be counted and improved.
- Cookie and local storage (PostHog). Kept for 1 year.
Google may also set its own cookies on its domains when you accept. These are covered by Google’s cookie policy.
Changing your choice
You can change your choice at any time. Declining after accepting stops the recording and clears what PostHog stored.
What this site does not use
- No advertising or remarketing pixels from social networks.
- Fonts are served from this site, not loaded from Google.
- The HOSS app at portal.thehoss.co.uk needs its own storage to keep you signed in. That is part of the service, not this website.
More about your data
The privacy policy explains who processes your data and your rights. Questions: email info@thehoss.co.uk.
