Cookies
Last updated 4 August 2026
This site sets no cookies of its own. The only ones you may encounter come from the security layer that protects it, the booking calendar, the payment step, and analytics you have agreed to.
1. What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store, so it can recognise your browser on a later request. Similar technologies such as local storage and tracking pixels do the same job, and everything on this page applies to them too.
Under the Irish ePrivacy Regulations 2011, any cookie that is not strictly necessary to deliver a service you asked for requires your prior consent. That means an analytics cookie cannot be set before you agree to it, and refusing must be as easy as accepting.
2. Strictly necessary cookies
These are required to deliver the service you asked for and to keep the site secure, so they do not need consent. There is no way to switch them off and still book online.
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
__stripe_mid | Stripe | Fraud prevention: recognises the browser across payment attempts | 1 year |
__stripe_sid | Stripe | Fraud prevention within a single payment session | 30 minutes |
__cf_bm | Cloudflare | Tells real visitors apart from automated attacks. May be set on any page, including this one | 30 minutes |
Apart from the Cloudflare security cookie, none of these are set while you simply read the site. Choosing a menu and a date sets no cookie at all: the two Stripe cookies appear on Stripe's own payment page, once you click through to pay.
3. Analytics cookies
I want to know roughly how many people find the site and which parts they read, so I can improve it. That is done with Google Analytics 4, and it runs only if you agree. If you refuse, no analytics cookie is set and nothing about your visit is sent to Google Analytics. Refusing changes nothing about how the site works.
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | Distinguishes one visitor from another | 2 years |
_ga_<container-id> | Google Analytics | Maintains the session state | 2 years |
Analytics is configured with IP anonymisation, no advertising features, no cross-site tracking and no data sharing with Google for its own purposes. Data is retained for 14 months.
Current status. Google Analytics is not yet installed on this site, and no analytics cookie is being set today. It will only be switched on together with a consent banner that asks first and lets you refuse in one click. Until both are in place, this section describes an intention rather than what is happening.
4. What this site does not do
- No advertising or retargeting cookies, and no Meta, TikTok or LinkedIn pixel.
- No cookies set by the pages themselves: reading the site sets nothing at all.
- No selling or sharing of data with data brokers.
- No cross-site tracking of what you do elsewhere on the internet.
One thing worth naming, because it is not a cookie but it is a data transfer: the site loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts a Google server, which receives your IP address. No cookie is set. The plan is to serve the fonts from this domain instead, which removes the transfer entirely.
Google Search Console is also in use. It reports on how the site appears in search results using aggregated, anonymous data. It sets no cookies and cannot identify you.
5. Changing your mind
Once the consent banner is live, a link here will reopen your choices so you can change them at any time. Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it, and takes effect immediately.
6. Controlling cookies in your browser
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings, independently of anything on this site. Be aware that blocking all cookies will stop the booking and payment steps from working, since those depend on the strictly necessary cookies in section 2.
7. More information
How your personal data is handled more broadly is set out in the privacy notice. For anything else, email hello@chezjulien.ie.
The Irish Data Protection Commission publishes plain-language guidance on cookies at dataprotection.ie.