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Cookie and storage notice
This notice explains the limited browser storage used by the RALE public website. Last updated: 31 August 2026.
Our approach
Essential storage is used only to remember your privacy choice. The Google tag may send limited cookieless consent and measurement signals while analytics and advertising storage are denied. Analytics cookies and full measurement require your permission. The public website does not use advertising cookies, cross-site profiling, or social-media tracking pixels.
Storage currently used
| Name | Category | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|
rale_consent_v1 | Essential local storage | Records the analytics choice, policy version, and choice timestamp. It contains no account identifier. | 180 days, unless you clear browser storage sooner. |
_ga | Optional analytics | Helps Google Analytics distinguish browsers for aggregate measurement. It can be created only after opt-in. | Typically up to 2 years, subject to the configured analytics settings. |
_ga_<property> | Optional analytics | Maintains Google Analytics session and measurement state. It can be created only after opt-in. | Typically up to 2 years, subject to the configured analytics settings. |
_gid or _gat* | Optional analytics, if issued | Short-lived Google Analytics measurement or request-rate state. These can be created only after opt-in. | Usually from 1 minute to 24 hours. |
Cookie lifetimes are distinct from analytics-property data retention. Browser or provider changes may alter technical cookie names or durations; this notice will be updated if the site's use materially changes.
Optional analytics
The Google tag loads with analytics and advertising storage denied. In that state, it may send limited cookieless consent and measurement signals without reading or writing analytics cookies. If allowed, the site enables analytics cookies and full Google Analytics 4 measurement. Advertising storage, advertising personalisation, advertising user-data signals, and Google Signals remain disabled. We do not intentionally send names, email addresses, form text, or other direct identifiers to analytics.
If no valid analytics measurement identifier is configured, no Google Analytics measurement is performed even when analytics cookies are allowed.
Change or withdraw your choice
Use at any time. Withdrawal changes analytics storage to denied and attempts to remove known first-party Google Analytics cookies. On reload, analytics storage remains denied, although limited cookieless Consent Mode signals may still be sent. You may also clear cookies and local storage through your browser.
Your consent record expires after six months, after which the site asks again. A recognised Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal keeps analytics storage denied and full measurement disabled unless you subsequently make an explicit choice; limited cookieless Consent Mode signals may still be sent.
Contact
Questions about browser storage or analytics may be sent to deck@raleplc.com. The website operator is RALE, registered as registration details available from the privacy contact, with its address at Legal address available from the privacy contact, the applicable jurisdiction.