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Birdie Brae

A Journal for the Thrifty Gowfer

Cookies

Last updated 26 April 2026.

The short answer: we don't set tracking cookies.

What we use

Our hosting provider (Vercel) may set a small number of technical cookies so the site works correctly — for example, remembering whether your browser has already loaded a cached copy of a page. These are called “strictly necessary” cookies under UK law and don't require consent.

Our analytics (Vercel Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights) run in cookieless mode. They measure page views and performance in aggregate without setting any identifiers on your device.

Affiliate-attribution cookies

When you click through to one of our affiliate partners (for example, an accommodation provider via our embedded Stay22 map, or a UK insurer via our insurance picker) the partner sets a cookie on their domain so we get credited for the referral if you go on to book. Those cookies live on the partner's site, not on birdiebrae.co.uk, and do not identify you personally. The partner's own privacy and cookie policy applies once you click through.

We use Stay22's “Allez” script sitewide to handle the accommodation-link side of this. It rewrites links to booking.com, expedia.com, airbnb.com, vrbo.com and a few similar sites into affiliate-tagged equivalents. The script itself does not set tracking cookies on our domain, but its outbound links do set the partner's normal session/booking cookie when you arrive on their site.

What we don't use

  • No advertising cookies on birdiebrae.co.uk itself.
  • No cross-site behavioural tracking.
  • No third-party marketing pixels.
  • No cookie consent banner, because we don't set any non-essential cookies on our own domain. The partner cookies described above only apply once you have actively clicked through to a partner site.

Third-party embeds

The course finder map loads tile images from OpenStreetMap. That request sends OpenStreetMap your IP address in the normal course of an HTTP request but does not set any cookies. If you click through to a course's own website, that site's cookie rules apply — not ours.

Questions

See our full Privacy Policy for how we handle personal data more broadly.

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