What cookies are
Cookies are small pieces of information that a website can ask a browser to store or send back during later requests. Similar technologies can perform related functions, such as remembering a setting, protecting a session or helping a service operate reliably.
Different cookies have different purposes and lifetimes. Some are essential to the operation of a service, while others may be used for analytics, personalisation or advertising. This policy distinguishes those categories because UK privacy rules treat them differently.
Cookie categories
For clarity, cookies and similar technologies are commonly grouped by purpose. Strictly necessary technologies support essential delivery, security or requested functions. Preference technologies can remember choices. Analytics technologies can be used to understand how a service is used. Advertising or marketing technologies can be used to measure or personalise promotional activity. The legal treatment of a technology depends on what it actually does rather than only on the label given to it.
Sounding Line does not treat all of those categories as automatically active. This policy describes the categories so that visitors can distinguish essential operation from any optional technology that might be introduced in the future.
Strictly necessary technologies
Sounding Line is designed so that access to the article and the enquiry form does not depend on optional analytics or advertising cookies. Systems used to deliver or secure the website may use strictly necessary cookies or similar technologies where they are essential to provide a requested function, maintain security or ensure reliable operation.
Strictly necessary technologies are limited to what is required for those purposes. Their duration depends on the function they perform and the configuration of the service that sets them; they are not used by Sounding Line as a substitute for optional tracking.
Duration and deletion
A technology may operate only for a browsing session or may persist for a longer period where its purpose requires that. Because the website does not rely on optional analytics or advertising cookies for access to the article or enquiry form, this policy does not invent fixed lifetimes for optional cookies that are not described as being in use.
Where a browser allows it, stored site data can be reviewed and deleted through the browser’s privacy controls. Deleting a necessary or preference-related item may mean that a function or setting has to be established again during a later visit.
Analytics and advertising cookies
At the date of this policy, Sounding Line does not require optional analytics or advertising cookies for visitors to read the article or submit an enquiry. If optional analytics, personalisation or advertising technologies are introduced, this policy will be updated to explain their purpose, provider and duration, and any consent required by law will be requested before they are used.
A visitor’s decision about optional technologies must not prevent access to content that does not require them. Where consent is the legal basis for a non-essential cookie, that consent can be withdrawn for future use.
Consent for non-essential technologies
Where a cookie or similar technology is not strictly necessary and applicable law requires consent, it should not be used merely because a visitor has opened the page. The visitor must be given appropriate information about the purpose of the technology and a genuine opportunity to make the relevant choice before consent-dependent use begins.
If Sounding Line begins using an optional technology that requires consent, the description of that technology, its purpose and the way a visitor can change their choice will be reflected in the website’s privacy information. A later change in purpose may require the choice to be obtained again rather than assuming that an earlier decision covers a materially different use.
Managing cookies
Browsers provide controls that can block or delete cookies. Blocking strictly necessary cookies can affect functions that depend on them, while blocking optional cookies should not prevent access to the core editorial content described above.
Because browser controls differ, visitors should use the privacy or site-data settings in the browser they are using. Deleting a cookie can also remove a setting that the cookie was intended to remember.
Browser and device settings
Cookie controls are usually specific to the browser profile and device on which they are changed. A choice made in one browser may not automatically apply to another browser or another device. Private-browsing modes and automatic deletion settings can also affect how long stored information remains available.
Visitors who use shared devices should remember that browser-level settings can affect other users of that device. The website cannot replace the privacy controls provided by the browser or operating system, and those controls may offer additional ways to restrict storage, clear data or limit cross-site technologies.
Third-party technologies
A third-party service involved in hosting, security or delivery may set a strictly necessary technology when this is required for its function. Silentia Yacht Limited requires personal information used for such support functions to be handled only for the relevant purpose and in accordance with applicable obligations.
No statement in this policy authorises a third party to use enquiry information for unrelated advertising. The Privacy Policy explains how personal information connected with an enquiry is handled more generally.
Relationship with the Privacy Policy
Some technologies can involve information that is personal data, while others may operate without directly identifying a named individual. Where information from a cookie or similar technology is personal data, its handling is also subject to the principles described in the Privacy Policy.
The Privacy Policy also explains the separate handling of information that a visitor actively submits through the enquiry form. Submitting an enquiry is not the same thing as agreeing to optional tracking, and the two activities should not be treated as interchangeable.
Policy changes and contact
This Cookie Policy is reviewed when the website’s use of cookies or similar technologies changes. The updated date identifies the current version.
Questions about this policy can be directed to Silentia Yacht Limited at Vine Cottage, Pankridge Street, Crondall, Farnham, GU10 5RG, by email at [email protected] or by telephone at +447989553903.