Cookie Policy

Last updated: 25 August 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how British Wordsmith, operated by Outsourced AV Ltd, uses cookies and similar technologies on BritishWordsmith.com.

For information about how personal information is handled more generally, please read our Privacy Policy.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, phone or other device when you visit a website. They can help a website function, remember choices, measure usage, prevent abuse and deliver advertising.

Similar technologies may include local storage, pixels, tags, device identifiers and scripts that store or access information on a device.

How we use cookies

British Wordsmith may use the following categories of cookies and similar technologies:

Strictly necessary cookies

These are required for essential website functions, security, consent management and protection against automated abuse. The website may not function correctly without them.

They may be used to:

  • Remember your privacy and consent choices
  • Protect forms using Cloudflare Turnstile
  • Maintain website and WordPress security
  • Prevent spam, fraud and malicious requests

Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent, although we still provide information about their use.

Analytics cookies

Subject to your consent where required, Google Analytics may use cookies and similar technologies to help us understand:

  • How many people visit British Wordsmith
  • Which pages and tools are used
  • How visitors arrive at the website
  • General device, browser and approximate location information
  • Whether the website is functioning and engaging visitors effectively

Google Analytics cookies may include _ga, _ga_<container-id> and related identifiers. Cookie names and durations may change when Google updates its services or our configuration.

Advertising cookies

British Wordsmith uses or intends to use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Subject to your consent choices and location, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses or similar technologies to:

  • Deliver and measure advertisements
  • Limit how often an advertisement appears
  • Detect invalid traffic, fraud and abuse
  • Produce advertising reports
  • Personalise advertisements where you have consented

Google advertising technologies may use cookies such as __gads, __gpi, __eoi and other identifiers on this website or Google-owned domains. The precise cookies used depend on your location, consent choices, browser and the advertisements served.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use advertising cookies to serve advertisements based on visits to British Wordsmith or other websites. Google and its partners may use these cookies to provide personalised advertising where permitted and consented to.

Consent-management cookies

Google’s consent-management platform may store information recording whether you accepted, rejected or customised non-essential technologies. These records help apply your choices and demonstrate that a consent decision was obtained.

Consent cookies may include identifiers such as FCCDCF and FCNEC. Names and retention periods may change when Google updates its consent platform.

Cloudflare Turnstile

Our contact form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to distinguish genuine visitors from automated bots. Turnstile runs a browser challenge and sends a verification token to Cloudflare for validation.

Turnstile may process technical information and use strictly necessary storage or cookies for security purposes. It is not used by British Wordsmith for advertising.

Further information is available in the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.

Google services and third parties

Google may receive information from British Wordsmith through Analytics, Site Kit, AdSense and its consent-management platform. Information about Google’s practices is available here:

Google may work with additional advertising technology providers. The providers available for a particular visitor may be identified through Google’s consent message and privacy controls.

Your consent choices

Visitors in the United Kingdom, European Economic Area and Switzerland are presented with choices concerning non-essential cookies and the processing of information for analytics and advertising.

You may:

  • Consent to the available purposes
  • Decline non-essential processing
  • Manage individual purposes and providers
  • Withdraw or change a previous choice using the website’s privacy controls

Declining non-essential cookies should not prevent you from using the British Wordsmith word-solving tools.

Browser controls

Most browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies through their privacy settings. Blocking all cookies may prevent security, consent or other website features from working correctly.

Browser instructions are normally available through the browser’s Help or Privacy section.

How long cookies remain

Some cookies last only for the current browsing session. Others remain for a specified period or until deleted. Duration depends on the purpose, provider, consent choice and current service configuration.

Google and Cloudflare may change cookie names, purposes and retention periods as their services develop. Their current policies provide further information.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when our website, consent system, advertising arrangements or legal requirements change. The latest version will appear on this page with its revision date.

Contact

If you have a question about cookies or privacy on British Wordsmith, please use our secure Contact page.