Cookie policy
This page explains what this website stores on your device. The short answer is: nothing, until you allow it.
Last updated 24 August 2026
Nothing is set before you answer
Browsing poollock.com places nothing on your device unless you agree to it or you sign in. We would like to count visits, so that we know which pages are worth writing and which are ignored, and for that we use Google Analytics 4. It is the only measurement on this site, and it is not loaded at all until you press Allow on the banner.
That is worth stating precisely, because most sites do it the weaker way. A site using consent mode alone loads the analytics tag immediately and instructs it to behave. This site does not fetch anything from Google until you have agreed. If you press No thanks, nothing is requested, nothing is stored, and the answer is remembered so you are not asked again.
Your answer is remembered in your browser’s local storage rather than in a cookie, because setting a cookie to record that you refused cookies would be a poor joke. It never leaves your device.
What we learn if you allow it
Pages viewed, roughly where in the world the visit came from, whether the device was a phone or a desktop, and which of four things you did: asked for a quotation, asked a question, applied as a trade partner, or played the film of a cover closing. It is counting, not identification: we cannot see your name, your address, or who you are, and we do not use any of it for advertising.
Exactly what is stored, and for how long
Two cookies, both first-party, both set by Google Analytics and only after you press Allow:
| Name | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|
_ga |
Tells one browser apart from another, so two visits from you are not counted as two people | 2 years |
_ga_E9YDQTB75M |
Holds the state of the current visit for this site’s Analytics property | 2 years |
One more thing is kept, and it is not a cookie: your answer to the banner, held in your browser’s local storage under pl-consent. It stays until you clear your site data, and it never leaves your device.
Who processes it, and where
Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC act as our processor for Analytics. Processing takes place in the United States, so allowing it means a transfer outside the UK; Google relies on the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses for that transfer. In Google Analytics 4 your IP address is used at the point of collection and discarded before the data is written to any server, so it is not stored.
What Google does with data from sites using its services is described in its privacy and terms for business and its partner sites policy. If you would rather block Analytics everywhere, on every site rather than just this one, Google publishes a browser opt-out add-on.
What a cookie is, briefly
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep, so that it can recognise your device on a later page or a later visit. Cookies are how most sites count visitors, remember a basket, or follow someone across the web to advertise to them. We do the first of those, only with permission, and none of the last.
The one exception: signing in
If you sign in to this site, which applies to our staff and to trade partners with access to the partner price list, WordPress sets session cookies. They keep you signed in as you move between pages and confirm that a form you submit came from you rather than from another site.
These are strictly necessary cookies. They are set only after you sign in, they carry no marketing or profiling purpose, and they do not require consent under regulation 6(4) of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. Signing out removes them.
Forms
The quotation form and the question form do not set cookies. When you send a quotation the site keeps a short note of the pool size you described, so that the confirmation screen can read it back to you. That note holds no name, email address, telephone number or postcode, and it is discarded after one hour. The privacy notice covers what happens to the enquiry itself.
Embedded content
Some pages refer to a map or to video. Where that happens the page shows a still image and a button rather than loading anything from a third party. Nothing is requested from an outside service until you ask for it, and where such a service would set cookies we will tell you before it loads.
Changing your mind
You can change your answer at any time, in either direction: reopen the choice. Clearing your browser’s site data for poollock.com forgets it too, and the banner will ask again on your next visit.
Controlling cookies yourself
If you want to review or delete cookies generally, every browser has settings for it, usually under Privacy. The Information Commissioner’s Office publishes plain guidance for the public at ico.org.uk.
Blocking all cookies will not affect your ability to read this site or to send us an enquiry. It would prevent signing in to the partner area.
If this changes
If we add anything else that stores or reads data on your device, this page will change first, the date at the top will change with it, and where the law requires consent we will ask for it before anything is set. We will not add tracking quietly and update the page afterwards.
Asking about this
Write to factory@poollockuk.com or call +44 1293 77 44 14. The same person reads that address as reads an enquiry.