Cookie Policy
Version: 2026-10-13. This page lists the storage and third-party technologies this website uses and explains your choices.
1. Your choices
When you first visit, a banner offers Accept optional, Reject optional and Manage preferences with equal prominence. Only technologies needed to provide the service you asked for run before you choose. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time via "Change cookie preferences" in the footer. If you withdraw a choice, the optional cookies on this site are deleted and the page reloads once so that loaded tags stop.
2. What this website uses
| Name / provider | Purpose | Category | Duration | Party | Loads when |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
buka-consent-v3 (browser localStorage) | Remembers your cookie choice | Necessary | 12 months, or until you clear it or change your choice | First party | When you make a choice |
buka-offer-band-closed (browser sessionStorage) | Remembers that you closed the website rental offer bar, so it stays closed while you browse | Necessary (functional) | This browser session (cleared when you close the tab) | First party | Only when you close the offer bar |
| Web3Forms (api.web3forms.com) | Delivers the forms on this website to our email | Necessary for the service you request | No cookie | Third party | Only when you send a form |
| Google Tag Manager (container GTM-KGP7PRL) | Loads the measurement tools below once you have allowed them | Analytics or Marketing | n/a (it sets no cookie by itself) | Third party (Google) | Only after you accept Analytics or Marketing. Never before a choice and never after Reject |
Google Analytics 4 (via Google Tag Manager): cookies _ga and _ga_* | Counts visits and shows which pages and actions help visitors | Analytics | _ga and _ga_*: 2 years, renewed on each visit (Google Analytics defaults; our container does not change them) | Third party (Google) | Only after you accept Analytics |
Meta Pixel (via Google Tag Manager): cookies _fbp and _fbc | Measures visits and enquiries that come from Facebook and Instagram. No personalised advertising is switched on | Marketing | _fbp: 90 days; _fbc: 90 days, set only after you arrive from a Facebook or Instagram link (Meta Pixel defaults; our container does not change them) | Third party (Meta) | Only after you accept Marketing |
Hotjar (cookies _hj*) | Session insights, to see where visitors get stuck | Analytics | n/a | Third party (Hotjar) | Not loaded yet: its tag is paused until a Hotjar site exists. If switched on later it will load only after you accept Analytics |
buka-purchase-sent:<id> (browser localStorage) | Remembers that a confirmed payment was already reported, so it is not counted twice | Analytics | Until you clear it | First party | Only on a payment confirmation page, and only after you accept Analytics or Marketing. |
bk_checkout (cookie set by our order server, app.buka-web.co.uk) | Connects this browser to your order while you order, pay and complete the brief | Necessary | 7 days, renewed while you use the order pages | First party | Only on the order, payment and brief pages |
buka-checkout-order-v1 (browser localStorage) | Stops a double click or a reload from creating a second order. It holds a random key and a fingerprint of your answers, not the answers themselves | Necessary | Until you clear it | First party | When you confirm an order |
| Google Ads | None. No Google Ads tag is installed | n/a | n/a | n/a | Never |
Before you make a choice, this website sets no cookies. If you allow Analytics, Google Analytics sets _ga and _ga_*; if you allow Marketing, Meta sets _fbp and, when you arrive from Facebook or Instagram, _fbc. These cookies are set on buka-web.co.uk and are listed above with their durations. Your choice itself is kept in your browser's localStorage for 12 months, not in a cookie. The order, payment and brief pages also use one necessary cookie, bk_checkout, set by our order server (app.buka-web.co.uk), whatever you choose for Analytics and Marketing. If you withdraw an optional choice, the tracking cookies named above are deleted on this site and on .buka-web.co.uk.
3. Third-party content on this website
This website does not embed maps, videos or booking widgets. The booking calendar opens in a new tab on Google's own page, and Google's terms and cookies apply there. Images are loaded from our own server.
4. Analytics and the statistical exception
UK guidance allows a conditional exception for certain low-risk statistical uses. It does not apply to every analytics tool automatically and never covers online advertising. We do not rely on that exception: analytics stays off by default and runs only with your choice.
5. Contact
Questions about this policy: [email protected]. See also the Privacy Policy.
