Cookie notice
Everything this website stores on your device, which of it is strictly necessary, what needs your permission, and how to change your mind.
Last reviewed: 11 October 2026
The short version
We store what the site needs to work, and nothing else unless you say so. Analytics is off until you switch it on, and switching it off again takes one click from the footer of any page.
The categories
Storage is grouped by what it is for, and you answer each group separately. Refusing is exactly as easy as accepting: the two are the same control, side by side, and neither is hidden behind an extra step.
- Strictly necessary — Keeps the site available and protected from automated abuse, and remembers the choice you make here so you are not asked on every page. UK law does not require consent for these, and they cannot be switched off.
- Analytics — Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager. Measures visits, pages and interactions with the enquiry form to help us decide what to improve. It does not include what you type into the form. It is off unless you switch it on, and switching it off later stops it.
Advertising and remarketing storage is refused in every case, including if you accept everything, because this site runs no advertising tags. If that ever changes it will be a new category with its own question, not a quiet widening of an existing one.
What is stored right now
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Kept for | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bmCookie | Cloudflare | Distinguishes people from automated traffic so the hosting platform can block abuse. Set by our hosting provider, not by us, and it does not identify you to Soundfangled. | Up to 30 minutes from the last request | Strictly necessary |
| soundfangled.cookie-consentLocal storage | Soundfangled | Records which categories you accepted or refused, and when, so the site can honour that choice and evidence it. Stored in your browser only; it is never sent anywhere. | Until you change your choice or clear this site's data | Strictly necessary |
| soundfangled:hire-moved-notice-dismissedLocal storage | Soundfangled | Remembers that you closed the notice about equipment hire moving to its own site, so it does not reappear on every page. | Until you clear this site's data | Strictly necessary |
| soundfangled:ring-out-best, soundfangled:ring-out-soundLocal storage | Soundfangled | Only if you play the game on the page-not-found screen: keeps your best score and whether you switched its sound on. | Until you clear this site's data | Strictly necessary |
| bassman-rest-seenSession storage | Soundfangled | Notes that the homepage animation has already played, so it does not replay each time you return to the page during a visit. | Until you close the tab | Strictly necessary |
| _gaCookie | Google Analytics | Distinguishes one visitor from another so visits are not double-counted. | 2 years | Analytics |
| _ga_<measurement id>Cookie | Google Analytics | Keeps session state for the specific Analytics property. | 2 years | Analytics |
What is not stored right now
These are listed so the picture is complete, not because they are running. A cookie notice that lists storage the site does not use is as misleading as one that omits storage it does, so each is marked with why it is absent.
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Kept for | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _clck, _clskCookie | Microsoft Clarity | Session recording and heatmaps: replays how a visit moved, scrolled and clicked. This is a larger ask than counting pages, so it would be offered as its own choice rather than folded into analytics. | _clck 1 year, _clsk 1 day | Not set — planned, not yet added |
Microsoft Clarity is planned but not yet added. When it is, session recording becomes its own consent category with its own question, and its rows move into the table above.
Changing your mind
Use the control in the footer of any page. It reopens the same choices you were first given, with your current answers already shown. Withdrawing permission is as easy as giving it and takes effect immediately.
You can also clear this site’s data from your browser settings. That removes the record of your choice along with everything else, so the site will ask again next time.
How your choice is remembered
Your answer is kept in your browser’s local storage under the name soundfangled.cookie-consent, along with the date you gave it. It never leaves your browser and is not sent to us or to anyone else.
Remembering a refusal is itself strictly necessary — it is the only way to honour it — so it is stored whichever way you answer, and it does not require consent. If your browser blocks site data entirely, your choice is applied for that visit but cannot be remembered, and you will be asked again.
More about your information
The privacy notice covers what happens to the details you send through the enquiry form, who else handles them, how long they are kept and how to ask us to change or delete them.