🍪 Cookie Policy

Last updated: March 22, 2026

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to website owners.

Cookies help us understand how you use our website, remember your preferences, and provide you with a better experience when browsing BonnieDaysOut.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies and similar local storage for several important purposes:

  • Essential website functionality: Enable basic features like navigation and access to secure areas
  • Audience measurement: Help us understand aggregate site use and improve BonnieDaysOut
  • Functionality: Remember your preferences and settings
  • User experience: Support site tools such as trip planning and saved preferences

3. Types of Cookies We Use

3.1 Essential Cookies

Purpose: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly and cannot be disabled.

What they do:

  • Enable basic website navigation
  • Remember your cookie consent preferences
  • Maintain session state for interactive features
  • Ensure security and prevent fraud

Storage duration: Session or up to 1 year

Legal basis: Necessary for legitimate interests (website functionality)

3.2 Functional Cookies

Purpose: These cookies enhance your experience by remembering your choices and preferences.

What they do:

  • Remember your language and region preferences
  • Store your favorite attractions and trip plans locally
  • Remember map settings and filters
  • Maintain accessibility settings

Storage duration: Up to 2 years

Legal basis: Consent

3.3 Audience Measurement (Default Unless You Object)

Purpose: Privacy-friendly aggregate measurement to understand which pages and features help families most and where we need to improve the site.

What it does:

  • Counts page views and broad journeys across the site
  • Measures aggregate feature usage, page types, and coarse device mix
  • Helps us identify broken journeys, low-use features, and content gaps
  • Uses canonical page URLs without query strings

What it does not do: It does not receive user IDs, email addresses, search terms containing personal data, cross-site identifiers, or advertising or remarketing signals.

Your choice: This privacy-friendly audience measurement runs by default unless you object in the banner, the persistent Privacy and measurement settings control, or the preference center on this page.

Scope limit: We rely on this model only while Plausible is used solely for aggregate audience measurement and site improvement. Any profiling, user-level tracking, advertising, cross-site linkage, or personal-data enrichment would require reclassification and likely consent.

Third-party service: Plausible Analytics

4. Local Storage and Similar Technologies

In addition to cookies, we also use HTML5 Local Storage and similar technologies:

4.1 Local Storage

  • Trip Planning Data: Your saved trips, favorites, and visited places
  • User Preferences: Map settings, filters, and display preferences
  • Performance Data: Cached content for faster loading

Important: This data is stored locally on your device and is not transmitted to our servers unless you explicitly share it.

4.2 Session Storage

  • Temporary data for your current browsing session
  • Search history and filter states
  • Form data to prevent loss during navigation

5. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our website are set by third-party services that we use:

5.1 Google Fonts

Purpose: Load custom fonts for better typography

Data collected: IP address, browser information

Privacy policy: Google Privacy Policy

5.2 OpenStreetMap / Leaflet

Purpose: Display interactive maps

Data collected: Map interactions, zoom level, location viewed

Privacy policy: OpenStreetMap Privacy Policy

5.3 Cloudinary (Image CDN)

Purpose: Optimize and deliver images efficiently

Data collected: Image requests, device information

Privacy policy: Cloudinary Privacy Policy

5.4 Plausible Audience Measurement

Plausible Analytics: Privacy-friendly aggregate audience measurement that runs by default unless you object.

We use Plausible only to understand overall site use and improve BonnieDaysOut. We configure it to use canonical URLs without query strings and to receive only limited aggregate event properties.

We do not use Plausible for profiling, user-level tracking, advertising, cross-site linkage, or personal-data enrichment. If that changed, this setup would need to be reclassified and likely moved behind consent.

6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

6.1 Cookie Consent Banner

When you first visit our website, you'll see a banner that clearly explains that privacy-friendly audience measurement runs by default unless you object. The same banner lets you:

  • Object to audience measurement using a dedicated control
  • Choose optional functional preferences
  • Leave optional non-exempt analytics technologies off unless you opt in

6.2 Privacy and Measurement Settings

You can change your preferences at any time. The explanation and controls are designed to stay clear, comprehensive, and easy to find rather than buried. You can review them by:

  • Clicking the persistent "Privacy and measurement settings" control available on every page
  • Visiting this page and using the preference center below
  • Reviewing the Privacy Policy and this Cookie Policy, which repeat the same explanation in plain language

6.3 Browser Settings

You can also control cookies through your browser settings:

  • Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data
  • Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
  • Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data
  • Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions

Note: Disabling essential cookies may affect website functionality.

7. Cookie Preference Center

Manage your privacy and measurement choices here. Audience measurement runs by default unless you object below.

Essential Cookies

Required for basic website functionality. Cannot be disabled.

Audience Measurement

Privacy-friendly aggregate measurement for site improvement only. Object here if you do not want Plausible to run.

Functional Cookies

Remember your preferences and enhance your experience.

Optional Analytics Technologies

Reserved for future non-exempt analytics or similar technologies that would require consent.

8. Do Not Track

We respect the "Do Not Track" browser setting. If you have Do Not Track enabled:

  • We automatically disable audience measurement and all optional technologies
  • Only essential cookies for website functionality remain active

You can enable Do Not Track in your browser's privacy settings.

9. International Transfers

Some of our third-party services may transfer your data internationally. We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place:

  • Standard contractual clauses for data protection
  • Adequacy decisions where applicable
  • Appropriate technical and organizational measures

10. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. When we make significant changes, we will:

  • Update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page
  • Notify you through our cookie consent banner
  • Provide prominent notice for significant changes
  • Request renewed consent where required

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:

Email: privacy@bonniedaysout.scot

Data Protection: dpo@bonniedaysout.scot

General Inquiries: bonniedaysout@gmail.com