Cookie Policy

Effective Date: 29/08/2025

This Cookie Policy explains how Cumbria Guru uses cookies and similar technologies to improve your browsing experience.

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with most professional websites, this site uses cookies, small text files stored on your device, to enhance your experience. This page explains what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies.

For more general information on cookies, see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons. In most cases there are no standard options for disabling cookies without also disabling functionality and features that they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies enabled unless you are sure you do not need them.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting your browser settings (see your browser Help for instructions). Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit.

The Cookies We Set

• Account-related cookies – Used for managing signup and general administration. Usually deleted when you log out, but may remain to remember preferences.
• Login cookies – Remember your login status to save you from logging in on every page. Cleared when you log out.
• Newsletter and email cookies – Track registration status to show appropriate messages.
• E-commerce cookies – Essential to remember your order details between pages.
• Preferences cookies – Store your site preferences to provide a more personalised experience.

Third-Party Cookies

In some cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties:

• Google Analytics – Helps us understand how visitors use the site and improve user experience (e.g. tracking time spent on site and pages visited).
• Testing & optimisation cookies – Used when trialling new features to ensure you receive a consistent experience.
• Google AdSense – We use Google AdSense to display advertising. AdSense uses cookies, including the DoubleClick cookie, to deliver relevant ads and limit how often a given ad is shown.
• Affiliate cookies – Some affiliate partners (such as Hotels.com or Amazon) may set cookies to track purchases made via links from our site. This allows us to earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Managing Consent

When you first visit Cumbria Guru you will be asked to accept or manage cookies via our cookie consent banner. You can update your preferences at any time.

Consent Management

Cumbria Guru uses Google’s Funding Choices Consent Management Platform (CMP) to manage cookie and advertising preferences. This banner appears when you first visit the site and allows you to accept, reject, or customise cookies and advertising settings. You can revisit your choices at any time via the cookie banner or your browser settings.

More Information

For further details on how we handle personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.