Cookie Policy
Last updated: June 2026
This cookie policy explains how cookies and similar technologies are used on https://techfaulta.co.uk, operated by Techfaulta.
This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.
1. What are cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device when you visit. They are commonly used to keep a website working between page loads, remember choices you have made, keep you logged in, maintain a basket or checkout session, protect forms, or support security features.
Similar technologies may include local storage, session storage, scripts, tags, pixels, device checks, or other technologies that store information on your device or access information already stored on your device.
In this policy, we use the word “cookies” to include cookies and similar storage or access technologies unless the context requires otherwise.
2. How we use cookies
We use cookies only where they are needed for the website, shop, security, user preferences, form protection, or requested services to work properly.
We do not use third-party advertising cookies, behavioural advertising pixels, remarketing trackers, or profiling cookies on this website.
Where cookies are strictly necessary for a service you have requested, they are active without asking for consent because the service cannot work properly without them.
Where a cookie or similar technology is not strictly necessary and does not fall within another applicable legal exception, we will ask for your consent before using it.
3. Cookies and similar technologies we use
WordPress
Type: Strictly necessary / functional.
WordPress may set cookies to manage login sessions, remember display preferences, support comment functionality, protect forms, and allow authorised users to manage the website.
These cookies are used to provide functionality requested by the user or to operate the website securely. They are not used for advertising or behavioural profiling.
WooCommerce
Type: Strictly necessary / functional.
If the shop or checkout functionality is active, WooCommerce may use cookies to keep track of basket contents, checkout sessions, customer choices, and order-related functionality.
These cookies are necessary for shop and checkout features to work. Without them, basket and checkout functionality may not operate correctly.
Dearthwood Maps
Type: Strictly necessary / functional.
Where Dearthwood Maps is used on this website, map-related requests may use cookies, scripts, or similar technical mechanisms so that map functionality can load and operate correctly.
This is used only to provide requested map functionality and support the operation of the website. It is not used by Techfaulta for advertising, behavioural profiling, or selling location data.
Cloudflare Turnstile
Type: Strictly necessary / security / spam prevention.
We may use Cloudflare Turnstile on forms or other interactive parts of the website to help confirm that a request is being made by a real person rather than an automated bot.
Turnstile helps protect our website, forms, services, and inbox from spam, automated abuse, malicious requests, fake submissions, and excessive bot traffic.
Cloudflare Turnstile may use scripts, security challenges, browser checks, device signals, or similar technologies to validate the request and issue a security token confirming whether the request appears legitimate.
We use Turnstile only for security, spam prevention, abuse prevention, and service protection. It is not used by us for advertising, behavioural profiling, remarketing, or tracking visitors across unrelated websites.
Because Turnstile is used to protect requested website functionality and prevent abuse, it is treated as strictly necessary and security-related. It cannot be disabled through our website without affecting the protected form or service.
Comments
Type: Optional convenience.
If comments are enabled and you leave a comment, you may be able to choose to save your name, email address, and website address in cookies for convenience. This means you do not have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment.
These convenience cookies are optional and may last for up to one year.
Login and administration cookies
Type: Strictly necessary / functional.
When authorised users visit the login page, a temporary cookie may be set to check whether the browser accepts cookies. This contains no personal data and is removed when the browser is closed.
When authorised users log in, cookies are used to maintain the login session and remember screen display preferences. Login cookies normally last for two days. Screen preference cookies may last for up to one year. If “Remember Me” is selected, the login may persist for up to two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.
If an authorised user edits or publishes content, an additional cookie may be saved. This does not contain personal data and normally expires after one day.
Embedded content from other websites
Type: Third-party controlled.
Some pages may include embedded content, such as videos, maps, images, articles, social media posts, or other media from third-party websites.
Embedded content behaves as if you visited the other website directly. Those third-party websites may use their own cookies, tracking technologies, analytics, or account-based monitoring, especially if you are logged in to those services.
We do not control cookies set by third-party embedded services. You should check the privacy and cookie information provided by those third parties if you want to understand how they use your data.
4. Analytics, advertising, and tracking
We do not use third-party advertising networks, behavioural advertising pixels, remarketing trackers, or profiling cookies on this website.
If we use analytics or statistical tools in future, we will only do so where they are lawful and appropriate.
Where consent is required, we will ask for consent before using them.
Where the law allows limited statistical cookies or similar technologies without consent, they will be used only for permitted statistical purposes and not for advertising, profiling, or tracking people across different services.
If our use of cookies changes, this policy will be updated to reflect that change.
5. Consent and cookie choices
Some cookies do not require consent because they are necessary for the website or a requested service to work, or because they fall within another legal exception.
Where cookies or similar technologies require consent, we will ask for your consent before using them.
You can refuse non-essential cookies without being prevented from accessing the basic website.
If a cookie preference tool is available on the website, you can use it to change or withdraw your cookie choices.
You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect how parts of the website, shop, map features, login area, protected forms, or other requested services work.
Strictly necessary and security-related technologies, including those used for spam prevention, form protection, abuse prevention, login security, checkout functionality, and requested service functionality, may remain active because they are needed for the relevant service to work safely.
6. Managing cookies in your browser
Most browsers allow you to view, block, restrict, or delete cookies. The exact steps depend on the browser and device you use.
You can usually find these controls in your browser settings under privacy, security, site data, or cookies.
If you clear cookies and return to the site, some preferences may be lost and some services may ask for settings again.
If you block scripts, security checks, or similar technologies, protected forms or anti-spam checks may not work correctly.
7. Your rights
Where cookies or similar technologies involve personal data, you may have rights under UK data protection law.
These may include the right to request access to personal data, correction of inaccurate data, erasure of data, restriction of processing, objection to processing, and other rights depending on the circumstances.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us through our contact page.
If you make a subject access request, we will carry out reasonable and proportionate searches for personal data we hold about you.
We may ask for information needed to confirm your identity, clarify your request, refine your request, or confirm that a third party is authorised to act on your behalf.
8. Data protection complaints
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal data, including personal data connected with cookies or similar technologies, you can make a data protection complaint by contacting us through our contact page.
Please make it clear that your message is a data protection complaint. This helps us identify it correctly and handle it under the correct process.
We will acknowledge receipt of a data protection complaint within 30 days of receiving it.
We will then take appropriate steps to investigate the complaint, keep you informed where appropriate, and tell you the outcome without undue delay.
If you remain unhappy after we have responded, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. The ICO’s website is https://ico.org.uk.
9. Changes to this policy
We may update this cookie policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date at the top.
If our use of cookies or similar technologies changes materially, we will update this policy and, where required, update our consent or preference controls.
10. Contact
Any questions about this policy can be sent through our contact page.
Techfaulta
Website: https://techfaulta.co.uk