Cookie Policy
Last updated: 5 August 2026 · Applies to juliepeel.com
1. What this policy covers
The short version: one necessary localStorage entry, two optional analytics cookies, nothing from advertisers, and a banner that respects your first answer. The rest of this page explains each of those statements precisely.
This policy explains how juliepeel.com uses cookies and similar browser-storage technologies, what each item does, and how you can control them. It supplements our Privacy Policy, which describes our broader approach to personal data.
We keep our storage footprint deliberately small: a handful of entries, most of which never leave your device. Everything we set is listed in the table in section 4 — there are no hidden trackers behind it.
2. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website asks your browser to store, either for a single visit ("session cookies") or for a defined period ("persistent cookies"). They let a site remember things between page loads — a preference, a consent choice, an anonymous visitor count.
Alongside cookies, modern sites use localStorage: a browser feature that stores key-value pairs on your device without transmitting them with every request. Several of the items we use are localStorage entries rather than true cookies, but the law and this policy treat them the same way.
3. How we group storage
Strictly necessary items make basic features work: remembering that you already answered the cookie banner, or keeping your chat panel state during a visit. These do not require consent because refusing them would break the very feature you asked for.
Optional analytics items help us understand aggregate usage — which sections are read, which links are followed — so we can prioritise research. These are set only if you press "Accept all" in the banner, and the site works identically without them.
4. The storage we use
The table below lists every item juliepeel.com may place in your browser, its purpose, type and lifetime. We update this table whenever the site's storage changes.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Category | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| jp_consent | localStorage | Remembers whether you accepted all cookies or necessary only, so the banner doesn't reappear on every page | Necessary | Until you clear it |
| jp_analytics_id | Cookie | Anonymous random identifier used to count unique visitors without identifying you | Analytics (consent) | 13 months |
| jp_analytics_session | Cookie | Groups the pages you view in one visit into a single anonymous session | Analytics (consent) | 30 minutes |
5. Your choices in the banner
On your first visit a banner offers two equal choices: "Accept all" enables the analytics items above, while "Necessary only" limits storage to the consent record itself. Neither button is pre-selected, hidden or visually favoured to nudge you.
Your choice is stored on your device and respected on every subsequent page view. We never repeat the banner to wear you down — it returns only if your stored choice is deleted or after a material change to this policy.
Both buttons do exactly what they say and nothing more. There is no "legitimate interest" pre-ticked list hidden behind a settings link, and no third-party consent framework passing your choice to hundreds of vendors — there are no vendors to pass it to.
6. Changing your mind
To withdraw or change consent, clear this site's data in your browser (usually under Settings → Privacy → Site data) and reload any page; the banner will reappear and you can choose again. Consent changes take effect immediately for all future page views.
Withdrawing consent does not retroactively delete anonymous analytics already collected, because those records cannot be linked back to you — that is precisely what makes them anonymous.
7. Browser-level controls
Every major browser lets you block third-party cookies, block all cookies, or delete stored data for individual sites. The support pages for Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge each describe the exact steps for their current versions.
Blocking all storage for juliepeel.com will cause the cookie banner to reappear on each visit — the site has nowhere to remember your answer — but every article, review and feature will continue to work normally.
Private or incognito windows behave the same way: storage set during the session is discarded when the window closes, so the banner will greet you again next time. That is your browser working as designed, not a fault on the site.
8. Third-party cookies
Pages on juliepeel.com set no third-party advertising or social-media cookies. Our social icons are plain links, not embedded widgets, so X, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram receive nothing from us until you actively click through to them.
When you leave via a "View more" link, the destination site applies its own cookie policy from the moment it loads. We encourage you to review it, as practices vary widely between companies.
9. Cookies and personal data
The analytics identifiers we use are random strings that are never combined with names, emails or other identifying data — we do not hold such data at all. In most practical senses they are not personal data, but we treat them with the same care as if they were.
Where data protection law nonetheless classifies an identifier as personal data, the rights described in our Privacy Policy — access, erasure, objection — apply to it in full.
10. How long storage lasts
Lifetimes are listed per item in the table above and are enforced by the browser itself: when an item expires, the browser deletes it without any action from us. We choose the shortest lifetime that still serves each purpose.
The consent record has no expiry because deleting it would cause the banner to reappear — the one outcome users consistently tell us they dislike. You can remove it manually at any time as described in section 6.
11. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Some browsers send a "Do Not Track" header or the newer Global Privacy Control signal. Because our optional storage is consent-based and off by default, honouring these signals requires no special handling: nothing optional is set unless you explicitly accept.
If your browser sends GPC and you also press "Accept all", we treat the explicit click as the more recent and specific expression of your preference, as the GPC specification itself recommends.
12. Changes to this policy
If we add, remove or change any storage item, we update the table in section 4 and the "Last updated" date at the top of this page before the change goes live. The policy in force at the time of your visit is always the published one.
If a change introduces a new consent-based category, your previous choice is reset for that category only, and the banner will ask you about it on your next visit rather than assuming an answer.
13. Contact us
Questions about this Cookie Policy can be asked through the support chat on any page of the site, or by post to Julie Peel, Privacy, 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom.
If you believe an item of storage is behaving differently from its description in this policy, please tell us — we treat such reports as bugs and investigate them within five working days.
We review this policy alongside every functional change to the site, and at least annually even when nothing has changed, so the table in section 4 can be relied upon as the complete, current inventory.
