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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. Optional analytics remains off unless you actively allow it. 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
When allowed, the site loads Google Analytics 4 for aggregate performance measurement. Advertising storage, advertising personalisation, advertising user-data signals, and Google Signals are disabled in the site configuration. We do not intentionally send names, email addresses, form text, or other direct identifiers to analytics.
No request is made to Google Analytics before opt-in. If no valid analytics measurement identifier is configured, analytics remains disabled even when selected.
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. Reloading the page ensures optional analytics is not initialised again. 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 is treated as a request to keep optional analytics off unless you subsequently make an explicit choice.
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.