Cookie Policy
Last updated: June 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Seren Bertrand uses cookies and similar technologies on this website.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help websites work properly, remember certain choices, and understand how the site is being used.
This policy also covers similar technologies, such as scripts, tags and local storage, where they are used to store or access information on your device.
How we use cookies and similar technologies
We only use cookies and similar technologies where they are needed for the website to work, to remember your choices, or to help us understand how the website is used.
Essential cookies
Essential cookies are needed for the website to function properly. These may be used for things like security, page navigation, form submissions, remembering cookie preferences, or keeping the website stable.
These cookies do not require consent because they are necessary for the website to work.
Functionality cookies
Some cookies or similar technologies may be used to remember choices you make on the website, such as cookie preferences or display settings. These help improve your experience when using the site.
Third-party cookies
Some pages may include services provided by third parties, such as embedded media, forms, maps or other tools. Where these services use cookies or similar technologies that are not essential, they should only load where consent has been given or where another lawful exception applies.
Managing your cookie choices
When you first visit this website, you may be shown a cookie banner allowing you to accept, reject or manage non-essential cookies, where these are used.
You can update your cookie choices at any time using the cookie settings link or banner controls provided on the website.
You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Please note that blocking some cookies may affect how the website works.
Cookies currently used on this website
The cookies and similar technologies used on this website may include the following.
Essential cookies
Essential cookies are used to make the website work properly, keep it secure, and remember your cookie choices.
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This cookie is set by Cloudflare and is used for security and bot protection. It is treated as an essential cookie.
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This cookie is used to remember your cookie consent choice after you click “Accept”.
Analytics cookies
We may also use Fathom Analytics to understand general website usage. Fathom is designed to be privacy-friendly and does not use tracking cookies.
Future changes
If additional third-party services are added in future, such as embedded videos, maps, advertising pixels or other tracking tools, this policy should be updated to explain what they are used for.
More information
For more information about how personal data is handled, please see the Privacy Policy: https://serenbertrand.com/privacy-policy/
Contact
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact me via the website.
What’s a cookie?
A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes. Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.
Cookies are either:
• Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; OR
• Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.
Cookies can also be categorised as follows:
• Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service, and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
• Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
• Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
By using our website you consent to our use of cookies as set out above.
Disabling Cookies
If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below for convenience and will be available for the Internet browser of your choice either online or via the software help.
Google Chrome
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Mozilla Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Apple Safari
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Google Analytics
In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect usage of the website in any other way. A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=None
For more information on the usage of cookies by Google Analytics please see the Google website. A link to the privacy advice for this product is provided below for your convenience.