Last updated: 9 November 2026
The short version
- Unless you say yes, my website only uses the essentials, such as a small cookie that remembers your choice.
- Whatever you choose, my website counts page views and tells Google Analytics, without cookies and without storing anything in your browser, in a way that can't tell who you are. You can ask me not to count your visits.
- If you say yes, I use analytics cookies to see how my website is used, so I can make it better.
- You can change your mind whenever you like.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a website saves in your browser. Websites can also save information in your browser in similar ways, called "local storage" and "session storage". In this policy I call all of these cookies, and I list every one my website uses below.
Some cookies are essential for a website to work properly. Others, like analytics cookies, are optional, and I only use them if you say yes.
Cookies I always use
These are needed for my website to work and can't be switched off. They don't track you.
| Name | Type | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
sdd_consent | Cookie | Me (snipdoggydogg.co.uk) | Remembers whether you said yes or no to analytics cookies, and when, so I don't ask you on every page. If you ask me not to count your visits, it remembers that too. | 6 months |
wpEmojiSettingsSupports | Session storage | WordPress, the software my website runs on | Remembers whether your browser can show emoji, so the page knows whether to load emoji images. It holds nothing about you. | Until you close the tab |
Counting visits, without cookies
I want to know how many people visit my website and how they find it, even if they don't choose Accept. So, for everyone, my website does two things that use no cookies and store nothing in your browser:
- My own visit count. Each time a page opens, my website adds one to a daily total for that page. The total is split by where the visit came from (for example Google, Facebook or a typed address, plus any campaign tag in the link and whether it came from a Google advert), and by whether it was a phone, tablet or computer. Your browser tells every website roughly this much when a page opens. There's no ID number, nothing is linked to you, and I don't keep your IP address or your browser details (the only exception is the 10 minute coded version used to stop abuse, explained in my Privacy Policy), so nobody, me included, can tell who you are or join your visits together.
- Google Analytics in cookieless mode. Before you choose, or if you say no, my website still tells Google Analytics that a page was viewed, and when someone taps one of my contact buttons (to call, WhatsApp, email, book or get directions), sends a form or joins my mailing list. These messages carry no cookie and no lasting ID (just a random number that changes on every page), and nothing is saved in your browser. Google receives the page address, the time, basic browser and device details and, as with any connection, your IP address, which Google says it uses to work out a rough location and does not store. It uses them to produce my statistics. Google handles this only on my behalf, to produce my statistics, and I have switched off Google's own use of it. My Google advertising features are switched off.
The law allows this kind of counting for statistics about how my website is used, so that I can improve it, without asking first, as long as I explain it clearly and you can easily say no. My Privacy Policy has more detail.
Don't want to be counted? Press the button below. My website will stop counting your visits in this browser and stop sending Google these cookieless messages. It remembers your choice using the small sdd_consent cookie listed above, so it lasts until that cookie expires or you clear your cookies. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, I treat that as asking not to be counted. Pressing Accept on the cookie banner later counts as saying yes to analytics instead.
Because the counts can't tell who anyone is, I can't find or remove a single person's visits from them. Daily totals are kept for 25 months and then deleted automatically.
Analytics cookies, only if you say yes
These help me understand how people find and use my website, which pages and photos they look at and what helps them get in touch, so I can keep improving it. They are only set after you press Accept on the cookie banner. Before then, Google Analytics runs in the cookieless mode explained above and sets none of them. My Privacy Policy explains what Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and my own visit records collect.
| Name | Type | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Cookie | Google Analytics | Tells one visitor apart from another, using a random number. | Up to 2 years (some browsers shorten this) |
_ga_<code> | Cookie | Google Analytics | Keeps track of your visit, for example how many pages you have viewed. The name ends in a code for my website. | Up to 2 years (some browsers shorten this) |
_clck | Cookie | Microsoft Clarity | Remembers your Clarity visitor number and settings, so repeat visits are counted together. | 1 year |
_clsk | Cookie | Microsoft Clarity | Joins the pages you look at in one visit into a single recording. | 1 day |
sdd_attr | Local storage | Me (snipdoggydogg.co.uk) | Remembers how you first and most recently found my website (for example a Google search or Instagram), the page you arrived on and how many times you have visited. | Up to 13 months |
sdd_vid | Local storage | Me (snipdoggydogg.co.uk) | A random visitor number, so my website can tell repeat visits apart without knowing who you are. | 13 months from your first visit |
sdd_sid | Local storage | Me (snipdoggydogg.co.uk) | A random number for this visit. A new one starts after 30 minutes without activity. | Replaced after 30 minutes without activity |
sdd_sess | Session storage | Me (snipdoggydogg.co.uk) | When this visit started and how many pages you have viewed. | Until you close the tab |
When Microsoft Clarity runs, Microsoft may also set its own cookies on its own websites (such as clarity.ms and bing.com), for example MUID, CLID, ANONCHK, MR and SM. Microsoft controls these and how long they last. You can read more in Microsoft's Clarity cookie list.
Cookies from other websites
Some pages show content from other companies: Google Maps on my contact, about and area pages (only once you press "Show map"), and photos from my Instagram on the home page. My website doesn't set cookies for them, but these companies may set their own cookies when you use their content or click through to their sites, particularly if you're signed in to a Google or Instagram account. Their own cookie policies apply:
Changing your choice
You can change your mind at any time. Press "Cookie settings" at the bottom of any page (or the button at the top of this page) and choose Accept or Reject.
If you choose Reject after saying yes, analytics cookies stop straight away, and my website deletes the analytics cookies and stored visit information it set in your browser. From then on it only counts your visits without cookies, as explained in Counting visits, without cookies, unless you ask it not to. Cookies that Google or Microsoft set on their own websites can only be removed through your browser settings.
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser. Here's how in the most popular ones:
Google also offers a browser add-on that stops Google Analytics on every website. If you block all cookies, my website will still work, but it will ask for your cookie choice each time you visit.
Questions
If you have any questions about cookies on my website, email me at kelsie@snipdoggydogg.co.uk. For more about how I look after your information and your rights, see my Privacy Policy.
If I change the cookies my website uses, I'll update this page and the date at the top.