Cookie Policy

1. About This Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how The Hidden Beach Organisation CIC ("Hidden Beach", "we", "us" or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on our website.

It explains what cookies are, why we use them, the different types of cookies that may be used, how third-party services may use cookies, how you can control your cookie preferences and how to contact us about cookies or privacy.

This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites can place on your device when you visit them.

Cookies can perform a variety of functions, including remembering preferences, maintaining sessions, understanding how a website is being used and, where permitted, helping measure or improve advertising.

Similar technologies may also be used to store or access information on a device. References to "cookies" in this policy include similar technologies where appropriate.

3. Who We Are

The organisation responsible for this website is:

The Hidden Beach Organisation CIC

For questions about our use of cookies or personal information, contact:

hello@hiddenbeach.uk

4. Types of Cookies We Use

Cookies used on the Hidden Beach website may fall into the following categories.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for important website functions and services.

They may be used for purposes including website security, maintaining sessions, remembering cookie-consent choices, enabling forms or transactions, preventing fraud or misuse and providing functionality specifically requested by a visitor.

Because these cookies are necessary to provide the website or a requested service, they may not require consent in the same way as non-essential cookies.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may remember choices or settings that improve how the website works for a visitor.

Depending on the functionality involved, consent may be requested before these cookies are used.

Analytics Cookies

We may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors use the Hidden Beach website.

These may help us understand which pages are visited, how visitors move around the website, how visitors arrive at the website, approximate usage patterns, device and browser information, whether website features are working effectively and general website performance.

Analytics information helps us understand and improve our website and digital services.

Where consent is required, non-essential analytics technologies will not be activated until the appropriate consent has been given.

Advertising and Marketing Cookies

We may use advertising, social media or marketing technologies to help us understand the effectiveness of promotional campaigns and, where applicable, provide or measure advertising.

These technologies may be provided by third-party advertising or social media platforms.

They may help measure actions taken after somebody sees or interacts with advertising.

Where these technologies are not strictly necessary, they will only be used where the appropriate consent has been provided.

5. Cookie Consent

When appropriate, visitors to the Hidden Beach website are presented with cookie choices.

Visitors may be able to accept non-essential cookies, reject non-essential cookies or manage their cookie preferences.

Rejecting non-essential cookies should not prevent access to the basic content of the website, although some optional functionality or embedded services may work differently.

Strictly necessary cookies may continue to operate because they are required for essential website functionality.

6. Changing Your Cookie Preferences

You can change your cookie choices using the cookie preference controls available through the website where provided.

You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings.

Browser controls vary, so you should consult the help or privacy settings for your particular browser or device.

Blocking all cookies may affect the operation of some website features.

7. Analytics Services

Hidden Beach may use website analytics and performance services to understand how our website is used.

Depending on our current website configuration, these may include analytics provided by our website hosting, analytics or technology providers.

These services may process information about website usage and devices.

Where an analytics service requires cookie consent, it will be treated as a non-essential service and managed through the appropriate consent mechanism.

8. Advertising and Social Media Technologies

Hidden Beach promotes events, activities and opportunities through online advertising and social media.

Our website may therefore use technologies associated with advertising and social media platforms.

Depending on the campaigns and services we are using, these technologies may help us measure advertising performance, understand whether somebody visited our website following an advertisement, understand conversions or interactions, limit or improve advertising and understand the effectiveness of promotional campaigns.

Where required, these technologies will only operate after the visitor has provided the appropriate consent.

9. Embedded Content

Our website may include content or functionality provided by third parties.

This can include online forms, videos, maps, ticketing services, music or audio players, social media content, event booking services and other interactive content.

Third-party providers may place or access cookies when their content is loaded or used.

Where appropriate and technically possible, non-essential third-party content or tracking technologies will be controlled according to the visitor's cookie choices.

10. Online Forms

Hidden Beach uses online forms for activities such as registrations, applications, enquiries and bookings.

Some forms may be provided through third-party form services.

Those providers may use technologies necessary to operate their services securely and may have their own privacy and cookie arrangements.

Visitors should consult the relevant provider's privacy information where appropriate.

11. Ticketing, Booking and Payment Services

Hidden Beach may use third-party platforms to provide ticketing, booking or payment services.

When a visitor follows a link to or interacts with one of these services, the third-party provider may use its own cookies or similar technologies.

Once a visitor moves to a third-party website or service, that provider's own privacy and cookie policies may apply.

Hidden Beach does not control cookies placed independently by third-party websites.

12. Login and Session Cookies

Where parts of our website or associated systems provide login, account or administrative functionality, cookies may be required to authenticate users, maintain secure sessions, protect accounts, remember relevant settings and prevent unauthorised access.

These cookies are generally necessary for the requested login or account functionality.

13. Security

Cookies and similar technologies may be used as part of measures designed to protect our website, systems and users.

This can include technologies intended to detect malicious activity, prevent fraud, protect forms, manage sessions and maintain website security.

14. Third-Party Cookies

Some website functionality is provided by organisations other than Hidden Beach.

Third-party providers may set their own cookies when their services are used.

These providers determine how their own cookies and associated information are processed.

Their activities are governed by their own privacy and cookie policies where they act independently of Hidden Beach.

15. How Long Cookies Last

Cookies may be either:

Session cookies – normally deleted when the browser is closed.

Persistent cookies – remain on the device for a specified period or until they are deleted.

The duration of a cookie depends on its purpose and the service providing it.

We aim to avoid retaining cookie-derived information for longer than reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.

16. Personal Information

Some information collected through cookies or similar technologies may constitute personal data.

Where this occurs, it will be handled in accordance with applicable data protection requirements and our Privacy Policy.

17. International Services

Some third-party technology providers may process information outside the United Kingdom.

Where Hidden Beach is responsible for such processing, we will seek to ensure that appropriate data protection safeguards are used where required.

Independent third-party services may operate under their own privacy arrangements.

18. Do Not Track and Browser Privacy Features

Browsers and devices increasingly provide privacy controls that may restrict tracking technologies.

The way individual third-party services respond to these signals can vary.

The most reliable way to control non-essential cookies on our website is through our available cookie preference controls and your browser settings.

19. Updates to This Policy

The technologies used by websites change over time.

We may therefore update this Cookie Policy when website functionality changes, new services or providers are introduced, our use of analytics or advertising changes, legal or regulatory requirements change or we otherwise consider an update appropriate.

The current version will be made available through the Hidden Beach website.

20. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, our use of cookies or your privacy, contact:

hello@hiddenbeach.uk

Organisation: The Hidden Beach Organisation CIC Policy: Cookie Policy Contact: hello@hiddenbeach.uk Effective: September 2026 Next review: September 2027