Cookie notice

No banner, because we have nothing to ask you

Consent is only needed for cookies that are not necessary for the site to work - advertising, tracking, profiling. This site sets none of those, does not follow you between sites and does not build a profile of your behaviour. That is why the site shows no consent pop-up.

The site is built so that nothing that is not strictly necessary is stored in your browser unless you yourself ask for it.

What is stored in your browser

• Nothing merely for browsing. The catalogue and the questionnaire work without setting a cookie, and the visit statistics use none.
• “locale” - your choice of language. Set only when you choose a language in the language switcher, so that the site opens in that language next time. It holds only the language code and expires after one year.
• Cloudflare Turnstile on the enquiry page. The “are you human” check on the enquiry form may store in your browser technical data it needs for the check itself. Without it the form is flooded by bots.
• “vr_admin” - the administrator's session. Set only when the site administrator signs in to the internal panel, and expires after 12 hours. Visitors to the site do not receive this cookie.
• Google's cookies - only after a click. Only if you yourself load the map on the “Who we are” page; see below.

Choosing a language, sending an enquiry and signing in are things you do yourself, and each of these entries is strictly necessary to carry out what you asked for - which is why the law does not require consent for them. Google's cookies are not strictly necessary, so they are set only once you yourself press the button that loads the map.

The map on the “Who we are” page

The map is supplied by Google, and loading it sets Google's own cookies. It is not strictly necessary, so it does not load by itself. In its place stands a button that says what will happen, and nothing is sent to Google until you press it.

If you do not press it, the map is not loaded and nothing happens. The address, the opening hours and a link to Google Maps are written beneath it, so you can find us without opening the map. The consent applies to the current visit and is not remembered.

How we count visits without cookies

We need to know which pages are doing any work, so we use Vercel Web Analytics, a service of Vercel Inc. It sets no cookies and does not recognise you from one day to the next. It counts page views and a few events, such as a sent enquiry - for which it records only the page and the machine the enquiry came from, never your name, phone or email. The result is aggregate visit statistics.

What we do not do

• we do not place advertising pixels - neither Meta's nor Google's;
• we do not use Google Analytics;
• we do not resell or share data with advertising networks;
• we do not track what you do on other sites.

How to restrict them

Every browser allows cookies to be blocked in its settings. Blocking them will not stop you browsing the site; it may stop a form being sent, because the spam check will not pass.

If this ever changes

If we add a tool that requires consent, we will ask for your consent before loading it and update this notice.

How we process the data from the form is described in the privacy notice.