Cookies
The short version
Nothing that measures you runs on this website until you say yes.
When you first arrive you are asked to choose. Until you choose, only the things the site needs in order to work are active. Analytics and advertising cookies are held back — not loaded and then ignored, but genuinely not run. If you decline, they never run at all, and the guides work exactly the same way.
You can change your mind at any time using the cookie settings link in the footer.
Essential — always on
These are needed for the site to function and to record what you chose. They cannot be switched off and they do not track you across other websites.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Consent record | Remembers your choice, so you are not asked on every page. Stored in your browser by us, not by a third party |
| Security and hosting | Serves the pages and protects the site from abuse |
Essential cookies — always active, not refusable.
Analytics — only with your consent
| What | Who | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics 4 | Counts visits and shows us which guides are read and which lead to an enquiry |
Analytics cookies — only after you consent.
We use this to decide what to write next. Decline it and we simply know less about which pages are useful.
Advertising
We run no advertising cookies at all. There is no Google Ads conversion tracking and no Meta Pixel on this site. The Marketing option in the banner is there because we expect to add advertising measurement later; until we do, consenting to it changes nothing, and this page will be updated before anything is added.
How they are loaded
The banner is ours. We do not use a third-party consent service, so no outside company sees your choice: it is stored in your own browser, on this website, and nowhere else.
Google Analytics is not loaded at all until you consent to analytics. It is not loaded and then held back — the request is never made unless you say yes. In practice the instruction "denied" is registered before any measurement tag is allowed to run, rather than tags running first and being switched off afterwards.
Accept and Reject are offered together, with the same prominence. Changing your mind later is the same single click as making the choice in the first place.
Changing your mind
Use the cookie settings link in the footer to change or withdraw consent at any time. You can also clear cookies in your browser, though that clears the record of your choice too, so you will be asked again.
What we deliberately do not use
We do not run HubSpot's website tracking on this site. Our customer system is HighLevel, and adding a second tool that follows you around the site would make the pages heavier without telling us anything we need.
Our customer system does not place a cookie on this website. It receives your enquiry after you send it, which is described in the privacy policy rather than here.
Other websites
When you follow a link away from here — to begin a visa application, to look at health insurance, or to a government source — you are on someone else's website and their cookie practices apply.
If this changes
If we add or remove anything, this page is updated before the change goes live.