No advertising cookies. No cross-site tracking. No data brokers. If you decline analytics, the site works exactly the same.
1. What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies such as local storage, session storage and single-pixel images do comparable jobs, and everything on this page applies to them too. Some are essential to make a site function; others are optional.
2. Cookies we set
Strictly necessary
These cannot be switched off because the site or the application would not work without them. Under EU and UK law they do not require consent.
| Name | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
wst_session | Keeps you signed in to the application and links your browser to your session. | Session, or 30 days if you choose “remember me” |
wst_csrf | Protects forms against cross-site request forgery. | Session |
wst_consent | Remembers your cookie choice so we stop asking. | 12 months |
wst_locale | Remembers your language, currency and date format. | 12 months |
__stripe_mid, __stripe_sid | Set by Stripe on payment pages for fraud prevention. Required to take a payment safely. | 1 year / 30 minutes |
Analytics, optional
Only set if you accept them, in regions where consent is required.
| Name | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| [ANALYTICS COOKIE NAME] | Counts page views and measures which sections of this site people read, in aggregate. IP addresses are truncated before storage. | [LIFETIME] |
If you use a privacy-first, cookieless analytics tool, delete this table and say so here instead.
3. Third-party cookies
- Stripe: fraud prevention on payment forms. See the Stripe privacy policy.
- Google Fonts: we load fonts from Google's CDN. Google does not set cookies for font requests, but it does receive your IP address as part of the request. If you would rather avoid that entirely, self-host the fonts.
- Scheduling widget: if you book a call, the scheduling provider may set its own cookies on its own page.
4. What we do not use
- No advertising or retargeting pixels.
- No social media tracking widgets.
- No cross-site or cross-device identity graphs.
- No selling or sharing of cookie data with data brokers.
5. Managing cookies
You can change your choice at any time by clearing the wst_consent cookie, which makes the banner reappear. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. In Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge this lives under Privacy and Security. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will sign you out and may break payment forms.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
There is still no common standard for Do Not Track, so we do not respond to that header. We do honour the Global Privacy Control signal in jurisdictions where it is legally recognised: if your browser sends it, we treat it as a refusal of optional cookies.
7. Changes and contact
We will update this page whenever we add or remove a cookie. Questions: privacy@westorably.com.
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