Cookie Policy

Last updated: 29 September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Red Leaf Routes (“Red Leaf Routes”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.

This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and protect personal information.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that can be stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies allow a website to recognise your device and can be used for a number of purposes, including helping a website function correctly, remembering preferences, understanding how visitors use a website and measuring website performance.

The rules relating to cookies also apply to certain similar technologies that store information on, or access information from, your device. These can include tracking pixels, scripts, tags, local storage and other technologies.

2. Why We Use Cookies

Red Leaf Routes may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes including:

Making our website function correctly
Providing security and protecting our website
Remembering preferences
Understanding how visitors use our website
Measuring website performance
Improving our website and services
Supporting booking and scheduling functionality
Understanding the effectiveness of our marketing
Supporting advertising or marketing activities, where applicable

The specific technologies used may change over time as we add, remove or replace website services.

3. Types of Cookies We May Use

We generally divide cookies into the following categories.

3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website or a service you have specifically requested to function.

They may be used for purposes such as:

Website security
Page functionality
Session management
Remembering essential settings
Enabling forms or booking functionality
Managing cookie preferences

Where a cookie is genuinely necessary to provide a service requested by you, applicable law may allow it to be used without consent.

We will not classify a cookie as strictly necessary simply because it is useful or convenient for us.

3.2 Preference or Functional Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced functionality.

Examples may include remembering:

Language or regional preferences
Certain display preferences
Previous selections
Other functionality you have requested

Where consent is required, these cookies will only be used after you have given consent.

3.3 Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.

They may collect information such as:

Pages visited
How visitors navigate the website
Approximate time spent on pages
Device and browser information
Approximate geographic information
How visitors arrived at our website
General website interaction information

We may use this information to understand website performance and improve our website and services.

Where analytics cookies or similar technologies require consent, they will not be activated until you have provided the appropriate consent.

3.4 Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Where used, marketing or advertising technologies may help us understand how visitors interact with our website and may allow us or third-party advertising platforms to measure or personalise advertising.

These technologies may include cookies, tracking pixels, tags or similar technologies.

Where consent is required, we will ask for your consent before using these technologies.

We will not use non-essential advertising or tracking technologies simply because you have visited our website.

3.5 Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies or similar technologies may be placed by third parties whose services are incorporated into our website.

Depending on the services we use, these may include providers involved in:

Website analytics
Online booking or scheduling
Video or multimedia content
Social media functionality
Advertising
Website security
Other embedded website services

Third-party providers may process information collected through their technologies in accordance with their own privacy policies.

Where required, we will identify relevant third-party technologies through our cookie-consent mechanism.

4. Our Cookie Consent

Where applicable, we will ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies or using non-essential storage and access technologies on your device.

Consent must involve a clear affirmative action.

For example, you may be able to:

Accept all cookies
Reject non-essential cookies
Select individual cookie categories
Change your preferences later

Simply continuing to browse the website will not, by itself, be treated as consent to non-essential cookies where consent is required.

You should be able to refuse non-essential cookies as easily as you can accept them.

5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

When you first visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie-consent mechanism allowing you to choose which non-essential cookies you accept.

You may change or withdraw your preferences where the website's cookie-management functionality allows you to do so.

If you withdraw consent, this will not affect processing that took place before your consent was withdrawn.

Depending on the technology involved, withdrawing consent may prevent certain website functionality from working as intended.

6. Browser Settings

You can also use your browser settings to control or delete cookies.

Most browsers allow you to:

View cookies stored on your device
Delete cookies
Block cookies
Block third-party cookies
Delete cookies when you close your browser
Allow cookies from selected websites

However, blocking all cookies may affect the functionality of our website.

Browser controls do not necessarily provide the same level of control as a website's cookie-consent mechanism, particularly where different categories or third-party technologies are involved.

7. How Long Cookies Last

Cookies may be either:

Session cookies

These are generally deleted when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies

These remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.

The duration of individual cookies depends on the technology and purpose for which they are used.

We aim to ensure that cookies and similar technologies are retained for no longer than reasonably necessary for their stated purpose.

8. First-Party and Third-Party Technologies

A first-party cookie is set by the website you are visiting.

A third-party cookie is set by another organisation whose service is being used by the website.

For example, an external analytics, booking, advertising or social-media service may use its own technologies when its functionality is incorporated into our website.

Third-party providers may process information independently from Red Leaf Routes and may have their own privacy policies and terms.

9. Personal Information and Cookies

Some cookies and similar technologies may collect information that relates to an identifiable individual or may be combined with other information to identify or distinguish a visitor.

Where this happens, the information may constitute personal information under applicable data protection law.

Our use of personal information collected through cookies and similar technologies is also governed by our Privacy Policy.

10. Changes to Our Use of Cookies

The cookies and technologies used on our website may change over time.

For example, we may:

Introduce new website functionality
Change analytics providers
Add or remove booking functionality
Introduce or remove marketing technologies
Change website security services
Replace one technology with another

If our use of cookies materially changes, we will update this Cookie Policy and, where required, request fresh consent.

11. Cookies Used on Our Website

The exact cookies and similar technologies used by the Red Leaf Routes website may depend on the website services and integrations active at any particular time.

These may include technologies provided by:

Our website hosting or website platform
Booking and scheduling providers
Analytics providers
Security providers
Social-media platforms
Advertising platforms
Embedded-content providers

The current cookie-consent mechanism on our website should provide the most accurate information about the technologies currently active and the choices available to you.

We periodically review the technologies used on our website to ensure that this policy remains accurate.

12. Mobile Devices

Cookies and similar technologies can also be used when you access our website through a smartphone or tablet.

The same principles described in this Cookie Policy apply regardless of whether you access the website using a desktop computer, laptop, smartphone, tablet or other compatible device.

13. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have rights under UK data protection law in relation to personal information processed through cookies and similar technologies.

These may include rights to:

Access your personal information
Correct inaccurate information
Request deletion
Restrict processing
Object to certain processing
Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent

Further information about your data protection rights is available in our Privacy Policy.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how Red Leaf Routes uses cookies and similar technologies, please contact us using the contact details provided on our website.

Red Leaf Routes
UK-based sole trader
Website: redleafroutes.com
Email: [Business Email Address]

15. Complaints

If you have concerns about how we use cookies or similar technologies, please contact Red Leaf Routes first so that we can investigate your concern.

You also have the right to raise concerns with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection regulator.

16. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to:

The technologies used on our website
Our website functionality
Our service providers
Applicable legislation or regulatory guidance
Our data protection practices

The latest version will be published on our website and will show the date on which it was last updated.