HEADTURNED legal

Cookie Policy

This Policy explains how HEADTURNED uses cookies, local storage and similar technologies throughout the HEADTURNED Ecosystem.

HEADTURNED uses essential technologies to operate and secure our Services, together with limited local storage that remembers functional preferences and notice acknowledgement.

Our approach

Privacy comes before tracking.

We deliberately avoid unnecessary tracking technologies and do not currently use advertising, behavioural tracking or optional analytics cookies.

The local preferences currently stored by our website do not create advertising profiles or track activity across other websites. Our notice is therefore informational rather than a request to accept or reject optional tracking technologies that are not present.

No artificial consent

Selecting “Got it” acknowledges that you have seen our notice. It does not represent consent to advertising, behavioural tracking or optional analytics technologies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on a device when a website is visited. They can help a website operate securely, remember necessary information and provide functions requested by the person using it.

Similar technologies, including local storage and session storage, may perform related functions without using a traditional browser cookie.

Our current use

HEADTURNED uses essential technologies required to operate, protect and maintain the reliability of the HEADTURNED Ecosystem.

We also use limited local storage to remember functional choices, including theme, media-gallery layout and whether the cookie notice has been acknowledged.

We do not currently use advertising cookies, behavioural tracking technologies or optional analytics cookies.

Essential technologies

Essential technologies support functions needed for the Services to operate safely, securely and reliably. Their use is limited to what is necessary for those functions.

  • Protect forms and infrastructure against abuse or malicious activity.
  • Provide human-verification and other security checks where a protected form is used.
  • Support secure hosting, traffic protection, load balancing, reliability and essential website operation.

Functional preference storage

Local storage allows this website to remember choices made on a device without creating a cross-site profile.

Current functional preferences include the selected light, dark or system theme and media-gallery layout or position choices. These preferences improve continuity but are separate from technologies used for security and essential operation.

Cookie notice acknowledgement

When you select “Got it” on our cookie notice, your browser stores a small local preference recording that the notice has been acknowledged.

This preference is used only to prevent the same informational notice from being displayed repeatedly. It does not record advertising consent, create a behavioural profile or track activity across other websites.

Analytics

HEADTURNED does not currently use optional analytics cookies.

If analytics technologies are introduced in the future, we will assess whether consent is required, update this Policy and provide appropriate controls before optional technologies are activated.

Advertising and behavioural tracking

HEADTURNED does not currently use advertising cookies or technologies intended to build behavioural advertising profiles.

We do not sell information collected through cookies or similar technologies.

Third-party security services

Trusted service providers support secure hosting, traffic protection and human verification. They may use technologies needed to provide those security functions when requested by this website.

Third-party services are governed by their own privacy and cookie practices. We aim to select providers whose practices are compatible with our security, privacy and operational requirements.

Managing cookies and storage

Most browsers allow you to view, remove or block cookies and stored website data through their privacy settings.

Removing stored HEADTURNED preferences may reset the selected theme or media-gallery choices and may cause the informational cookie notice to appear again.

Blocking technologies that are strictly necessary may prevent parts of the Services from operating securely or correctly.

Future optional technologies

The HEADTURNED Ecosystem may evolve to include optional analytics, personalisation or other technologies.

Where consent is legally required, those technologies will remain inactive until a valid choice has been made. You will also be given a clear way to review or change that choice.

Changes to this Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when our Services, technologies or legal obligations change.

The revised Policy will be published on this page together with an updated “Last updated” date.

Where a change introduces optional technologies requiring consent, we will provide an appropriate consent mechanism rather than relying on acknowledgement of the current informational notice.

Document status

Last updated

July 2026

This Policy may be updated as the HEADTURNED Ecosystem, its Services and the technologies supporting them evolve.