Cookie Policy
What is stored on your device, why, and how to change your mind.
Last updated: 2 November 2026
Draft for approval. Items marked to be confirmed are placeholders rather than final policy wording, and must be agreed before this page is published.
This policy should be read with our Privacy Policy. It explains the cookies and similar storage this website uses, which of them are essential, and which only run if you agree.
1. Cookies and similar storage
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to store. Similar technologies include local storage, which keeps a value in your browser without sending it with every request. Both can recognise your device on a later visit. UK PECR rules require your consent for anything that is not strictly necessary.
2. Essential and optional: the difference
Essential storage is needed for the site and its forms to work, and to remember this choice. It is always on, because without it the site cannot function.
Optional storage is everything else. On this site there are two optional categories: analytics and live chat. Both start switched off, and neither loads until you say yes.
3. How we ask for your consent
- A banner appears the first time you visit. Accept all, Reject optional and Manage preferences are presented with equal prominence, and no optional category is pre-ticked.
- Choosing Reject optional is as easy as accepting, and the site and booking request form work exactly the same either way.
- Nothing optional is requested or loaded before you choose. When you allow analytics we still signal “denied” to Google first and only then switch analytics on. Advertising storage, ad user data and ad personalisation are always denied, because this site runs no advertising or remarketing tags.
- Your choice is saved for about six months. After that we ask again, and we ask again sooner if we add a new purpose.
- You can change or withdraw your choice at any time, using the link below.
4. Essential (always on)
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Local storage in your browser (not a cookie, not sent to us)
Remembers the choice you make in the cookie banner so we do not ask on every page. Set only after you choose.
Lasts: About six months, after which we ask again
to be confirmed: cookie name
Cookie set by our website platform (Base44)
Keeps a signed-in session alive, and protects forms against cross-site request forgery. Only set for staff who sign in to the password-protected admin area; ordinary visitors browsing the site are never signed in.
Lasts: to be confirmed: duration
5. Analytics (optional)
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages and tours people find useful, so we can improve the site. It is loaded only if you allow analytics, and we have switched on IP anonymisation and switched off advertising features.
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Cookie set by Google Analytics 4
Tells one visitor apart from another so we can count visits and see which tours and pages are useful. Loaded only after you allow analytics.
Lasts: to be confirmed: duration
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Cookie set by Google Analytics 4
Keeps session state for our specific GA4 measurement. It is not used for advertising, and advertising storage is always denied on this site.
Lasts: to be confirmed: duration
Withdrawing consent sets analytics storage back to “denied” and deletes the Google Analytics cookies this site set. Google’s own documentation lists the exact cookie lifetimes, and they can also be shortened in our GA4 settings to be confirmed: current GA4 data retention setting.
Google also offers a browser add-on that blocks Google Analytics across all websites: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
6. Live chat (optional)
Our live chat is provided by Tawk.to. The widget, its scripts and its cookies load only after you allow live chat; if you decline, no request is made to Tawk.to and no chat bubble appears. You can still reach us by email at peter@dorsetexplore.co.uk or through the contact form.
to be confirmed: cookie name
Cookies and local storage set by Tawk.to
Keeps your chat session open, remembers the conversation if you move between pages, and identifies a returning visitor to the chat widget. Nothing from Tawk.to loads unless you allow live chat.
Lasts: to be confirmed: duration
Withdrawing consent removes the widget and deletes the chat cookies it set in your browser.
7. No advertising cookies
We do not run advertising, remarketing or social media pixels on this site, and we do not build advertising profiles of visitors. If that ever changes, we will ask for your consent first and update this policy.
8. Changing your mind, and browser controls
The quickest way is the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page, or the button above. Rejecting a category stops it and clears what it left behind.
You can also delete or block cookies in your browser settings, and use a private window so nothing is kept after you close it. Blocking essential storage may stop parts of the site, such as the booking request form, from working properly.
9. Other providers' notices
Google and Tawk.to are responsible for their own cookies once loaded. Their privacy and cookie notices explain what they do with the information they collect:
- Google: policies.google.com/privacy
- Tawk.to: see the privacy and cookie notices published on tawk.to to be confirmed: confirm the exact cookie names and lifetimes from your Tawk.to account
10. Changes to this policy
If we add or remove a cookie or a purpose, we will update this page and the date at the top. Where the change needs your consent, we will ask again.
11. Contact
This website is operated by Dorset Explore Ltd, trading as Jurassic Coast Adventures Dorset, which also runs our booking system at dorsetexplore.co.uk. Company number 17328917. Registered office: 3 Furzey Close, Poole, England, BH14 0BN. Data protection contact for Dorset Explore Ltd: peter@dorsetexplore.co.uk. How we handle personal information is set out in the Privacy Policy.