Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Astrolade uses cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website (astrolade.co.uk). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

1. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by online service providers to facilitate and help to make the interaction between users and websites faster and easier, as well as to provide reporting information.

2. Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website. For example:

• Authentication: We use secure cookies (via NextAuth.js) to keep you logged in via your Magic Link, so you don't have to re-authenticate on every page.
• Security: Cookies help us detect and prevent fraud and malicious activity.

Functional & Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used, or to help us customise our website for you.

Payment Processing Cookies (Stripe)

We use Stripe for payment, analytics, and other business services. Stripe may place cookies on your device to support payment processing, fraud prevention, and regulatory compliance. You can read more about Stripe's cookie policy at stripe.com/cookies-policy/legal.

3. How Can I Control Cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies.

Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website (such as logging in to your account) may be severely restricted.

Because the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

4. Updates to this Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.