What are cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on or read from your device by websites and online services. UK rules also cover similar storage and access technologies, including local storage, pixels, device identifiers, scripts and other mechanisms that store information on, or access information from, your device.
How this website currently uses them
Preference storage
When you accept, reject or customise optional services, the site stores a first-party preference called jt_cookie_preferences for up to 180 days. It records whether the interactive Performance Map and Google Analytics are allowed, the consent-policy version, the route you used to make the choice and the date/time of the choice. It does not contain your name, email address or an advertising identifier and is not itself used for analytics, advertising or profiling.
Interactive Performance Map — optional
The Performance Map uses map tiles supplied by the OpenStreetMap project. Venue and performance information is loaded from this website first; map tiles are requested from the third-party map service only after you actively allow the optional interactive map. Once allowed, the map provider receives the technical information normally sent by your browser when requesting those tiles, such as your IP address, browser request information and the website origin/referrer used to identify this site to the map provider. No private booking or client data is sent with those tile requests. See the OpenStreetMap Foundation Privacy Policy.
If you choose the separate Open full map link, you leave this website and visit Google directly. Google's own privacy and cookie choices then apply on Google's service.
Google Analytics 4 — optional
This website uses Google Analytics 4, provided by Google LLC, only after you allow the Analytics category. Before consent, the website does not request the Google Analytics tag. If allowed, Analytics measures information such as page views, approximate engagement, device/browser characteristics, traffic source and selected website interactions. Our tracking code records useful actions such as enquiry success, confirmed-booking detail submission, telephone/email clicks and key internal calls to action. It does not deliberately send form-field contents, names, email addresses, telephone numbers, venue details or booking-reference values to Analytics.
Advertising storage, advertising user-data and advertising personalisation signals are kept denied. The site configures its first-party Google Analytics cookies with a maximum lifetime of 180 days and does not refresh that expiry on each page load. See Google's Privacy Policy and Google's cookie information.
Native enquiry and booking forms
The Contact and confirmed Booking forms are part of this website and do not require optional cookies to work. If Analytics is allowed, Google Analytics may measure non-content form interactions such as a form start or successful website submission, but our analytics integration does not send the information typed into the form fields.
Google-hosted fonts
The site requests typefaces from the Google Fonts Web API. Google states that the Google Fonts API does not set or log cookies. Your browser still makes a normal network request to Google's font servers to retrieve the typeface files. This is described further in the Privacy Policy.
Social media and other external links
Instagram, Facebook and venue websites are linked from the site but are not embedded as tracking widgets. Their own cookies and privacy practices apply only when you choose to visit those external services.
Affiliate and product links
On the My Setup page, product links marked Ad are affiliate links. When you choose a product link, this website first uses a server-side redirect to increment a privacy-light aggregate click count for that product. That redirect does not set an affiliate cookie and the click counter does not store your IP address. Your browser is then sent to the retailer or affiliate destination. The destination website or affiliate network may set its own cookies or similar technologies after you leave this website, under its own cookie and privacy notices. Those destination-site cookies are not set by James Taylor Electric Violinist and are not controlled by this website's Cookie Settings.
Storage and access summary
This summary describes the website's configured storage and connections. A third-party request is not necessarily a cookie, and an external provider may change its own technology.
Necessary preference: jt_cookie_preferences
Provider: this website. Remembers the separate Analytics and Performance Map choices, consent version, method and timestamp.
When: after you make a choice. Duration: up to 180 days. It is used to respect the choice, not for advertising.
Optional Analytics: _ga and _ga_*
Provider: Google Analytics 4, using first-party cookies. Helps distinguish browser instances and measure aggregate use.
When: only after Analytics is allowed. Duration: this site's code requests up to 180 days from creation without renewing expiry on every page view. Server-side reporting retention is separate. Advertising storage, user-data and personalisation signals remain denied.
Optional Performance Map
Provider: OpenStreetMap / OpenStreetMap Foundation map tiles. The venue records come from this website; map-tile requests send technical connection information to the tile provider.
When: only after the map category is allowed. Duration: request records or storage on the provider's service are controlled by that provider. The text-based venue list remains an alternative.
Form protection: Cloudflare Turnstile
Provider: Cloudflare. Checks browser and challenge signals when a protected form is used to help distinguish genuine visitors from automated abuse. The site verifies the resulting short-lived token server-side.
When: on protected enquiry, booking, Credentials and equipment-recovery journeys. It is a security measure, not an optional Analytics or advertising service. The exact signals and any provider-managed storage depend on Cloudflare's configuration; this site does not claim that a particular Cloudflare cookie is always set. See Cloudflare's Turnstile privacy information.
Authenticated administration
Signing into the private Admin area uses session storage/cookies and security tokens to maintain access and protect actions. They are not needed merely to browse the public pages and are not used as a substitute for optional Analytics consent. Session duration depends on the authenticated session and server configuration.
Fonts and external links
Lato and Marcellus fonts are requested from Google Fonts. That connection carries technical request information and is not controlled by the Analytics switch. Following a supplier, map, social or affiliate link opens an independent service whose own cookies and privacy controls apply. Storing a Spotify reference in private administration does not load a public Spotify player.
Managing and withdrawing your choice
On your first visit you can Accept optional, Reject optional or Choose preferences. The interactive Performance Map and Google Analytics have separate controls and are both off unless you actively allow them. Accept optional enables both optional categories; Reject optional enables neither.
After a choice is saved, the Cookie Settings link in the footer remains available on every page. You can use it to change or withdraw either choice at any time. Withdrawing Analytics consent disables future Analytics collection and the website attempts to remove its first-party Google Analytics cookies. Withdrawing Performance Map consent stops third-party map-tile requests and returns the map area to its privacy placeholder.
Cookies or similar data placed on a third-party provider's own domains are controlled by that provider and your browser; this website cannot directly erase another domain's storage. You can manage those through your browser and the provider's own privacy controls.
The privacy preference lasts for up to 180 days. After it expires, or if the purposes or technologies covered by the consent materially change, the site asks you again.
Privacy information
For information about personal data collected through enquiries, bookings, hosting and third-party services, see the Privacy Policy.
Changes to this policy
This notice was updated on 10 September 2026 to describe the current website features more clearly. The optional purposes remain Analytics and the Performance Map; this editorial update does not enable any additional tracking or treat existing choices as permission for new purposes.
If optional purposes or technologies materially change, the consent configuration must be updated and a fresh choice requested before the new use. Provider and live-browser behaviour must be reviewed as part of maintaining the site.