Cookie Policy

1:00am, Wednesday September 11th 2019

Our website uses cookies in accordance with the following cookie policy to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

Any emails we send you (whether sent by the Nearcut Group on our behalf or otherwise) use similar technologies to cookies (including tracking pixels). The use of such technologies is essential for us to keep track of the emails we send you and we use such technologies for troubleshooting purposes such as to ensure/improve email deliverability. We do not use such technologies in our emails to you for marketing purposes.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies and similar technologies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or use a shopping cart when purchasing our services.
Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This allows us to carry out research and statistical analysis which helps us improve our content and the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily and making your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences. This also speeds up your access to our website as you do not have to log in each time.
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any advertising that we may display on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Tracking pixels. These inform us as to whether an email sent to you has been opened. We use this information to keep track of the emails we send, for troubleshooting purposes such as to ensure/improve email deliverability. We may share this information with our client, if the email we sent you was sent on behalf of that client using our booking system/services, for this purpose.

The legal basis for the use of strictly necessary cookies is Art. 6 (1) 1 f) GDPR because the use of cookies lies in our legitimate interest. In case of any other cookies we require your explicit consent. In this case the processing is based on Art. 6 (1) 1 a) GDPR-.

You can find more information about the individual cookies and any similar technologies we use, the purposes for which we use them and our legitimate interests if they are based on them in the table below:

Necessary	Name of cookie/similar technologies	Purpose and legitimate interest (in case of cookies that are strictly necessary)	Cookies/similar technologies expire after	More information	Owner
Yes	Nearcut session	To store your login session. This does not contain your personal information.	1 year	Nearcut Group
No	_fbp	We sometimes advertise with Meta (Facebook) and we use their tracking to see if our advertisements are working.	3 months	See Facebook for more information – here .	Meta
No	_ga*	We use Google analytics to analyse the traffic on our websites.	2 years	See Google Analytics for more information – here .	Google
No	_gcl*	We sometimes advertise with Google and we use their tracking to see if our advertisements are working	90 days	See Google Ads for more information – here .	Google
Yes	Remember_me_user_token	To capture your "Remember me" preference for the login system, which you choose at the point of login. This does not contain personal information.	1 year	Nearcut Group
No	R a, r, nr a	A random number used for analytics. The cookie is only used after the point of registration and login. If you do not want to enter into the analytics then do not register or log in.	1 year	Nearcut Group
Yes	source_href, source_domain	A string to remember the address of a previous page. This helps with the continuity of the user experience.	1 year	Nearcut Group
No	ph_*	We use Posthog to analyse our product and see what is working or not. This is necessary to provide a great product.	1 year	See PostHog for more information – here .	PostHog
Yes	Emails from us contains image(s) hosted on our servers	This technology is essential to inform us as to whether an email we sent to you (on behalf of our client or otherwise) has been opened. This technology is essential for us to keep track of the emails we send, for troubleshooting purposes such as to ensure/improve email deliverability. We may share this information with our client, if the email we sent you was sent on behalf of that client using our booking system/services, for this purpose.	Email is opened for the first time	Nearcut Group
Yes	basket_token	This is the ID for your basket of items in the checkout process.	1 year	Nearcut Group
Yes	cookieconsent_status	We use this cookie to remember that you have agreed to the cookie policy, so that we don’t request your permission again.	1 year	Nearcut Group
Yes	check_can_set_cookie	This is a test cookie to evaluate whether you have cookies enabled	1 year	Nearcut Group
Yes	homepage_alert	This cookie is used to remember whether the popup notice has been shown to you before, if enabled on the booking system	1 year	Nearcut Group
Yes	client_token, app_confirm_user_token, check_email	We sometimes set this to remember your previous sign up, to save you from signing up multiple times.	1 year	Nearcut Group
Yes	locale	To store which language you have chosen to view the website in.	1 year	Nearcut Group

Unless otherwise stated in this cookie policy, we do not share the information collected by the cookies and similar technologies with any third parties.

Please note that we work with the following third parties who may also use cookies on our website, over which we have no control:

Nearcut (https://nearcut.com/)
Book In Beautiful (https://bookinbeautiful.com/)
Posthog (https://posthog.com/)
Meta (Facebook) (https://www.facebook.com/)
Google (https://www.google.com/)
Intercom (https://www.intercom.com/)

These third parties (who are responsible for the cookies they set on our website) may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by setting your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. However, if you do not give your consent, withdraw it, disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Except for essential cookies or similar technologies, all cookies or similar technologies will expire as outlined in the table above.