What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, tablet or phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or to make them work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the site’s owners.
Most cookies don’t collect information that identifies you personally; they collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use a site, or the user’s general location.
How we use cookies
STSPC Ltd uses cookies sparingly. We use them only where they are necessary for the website to function correctly or to help us understand how the site is being used so we can improve it.
We do not use cookies to track you across other websites, build advertising profiles, or share your data with third-party advertisers.
Cookies we set
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function. They cannot be switched off without breaking parts of the site. They do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Theme preference – remembers whether you’ve chosen light or dark mode (stored in your browser’s localStorage, not a traditional cookie)
- Accessibility preferences – remembers any display options you set in the accessibility toolbar (text size, high contrast, link highlighting, readable font, large cursor, paused animations), and whether you’ve dismissed the toolbar, so your choices apply on every page and on your next visit. Stored in a small first-party cookie named
stspc-a11y. It holds only your display choices, contains no personal information, and is not used for tracking or advertising - Session cookies – set by WordPress to manage browsing sessions, contact form submissions and CSRF protection
- Cookie-consent state – remembers your choice the next time you visit, so we don’t show the consent banner repeatedly
Analytics cookies (only with your consent)
If you opt in via the cookie banner, we may use analytics cookies to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.
- All information these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous.
- If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site.
Third-party services
Our fonts, stylesheets and scripts are hosted on our own server rather than loaded from a third-party content delivery network, so ordinary browsing does not expose your visit to those providers. Two services are embedded on some pages and load directly from the provider:
- Cloudflare Turnstile – protects our contact and support ticket forms from automated abuse. It loads from
challenges.cloudflare.comon pages that contain a form, and may set its own cookie to confirm a submission is genuine. It is not used for advertising or cross-site tracking. - Trustpilot – displays our review rating. The widget loads from
widget.trustpilot.comand may set its own cookies under Trustpilot’s own cookie policy.
We have no control over cookies set by these providers. Please check their privacy and cookie policies if you wish to know more.
How to control cookies
You can control or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your device and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed.
Below are links to the cookie-management settings of common browsers:
Please note that if you choose to disable cookies, some parts of this website may not work as you’d expect.
Changes to this policy
We may update this cookie policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page indicates when it was most recently revised.
Contact
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please get in touch:
STSPC Ltd
101 West End Street, Oldham, Greater Manchester OL9 6AL
Email: su***@st***.co.uk
Phone: 0161 711 1773
For more on your rights under data protection law, see our Privacy Policy.