Cookie Policy
This policy explains what cookies are, which categories may be used on this website, and how you can control them.
Effective date: to confirm
Pre-launch draft — not yet legally reviewed.
This document is structured placeholder content written to give the page its final shape. Every highlighted item still needs confirming, and the whole document should be reviewed by a qualified solicitor before ForgeBike launches — particularly where it touches the rent-to-own agreement, which is a regulated area and is not covered by this page.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, to remember your preferences, and to provide information to site owners about how their site is used.
Similar technologies — such as local storage, pixels and tags — can be used for the same purposes. Where this policy refers to cookies, it covers those technologies too.
Cookies on this website
As currently built, this website sets no cookies of its own. It includes no analytics, advertising or tracking software, and stores nothing in your browser between visits.
Our hosting provider may set strictly necessary cookies for security or load balancing. Whether it does, and the name and purpose of any such cookie, is to confirm and must be documented here before launch.
This will also need revisiting when features that rely on cookies are added — for example customer accounts, the ForgePoints balance, or store checkout.
Categories of cookies
If and when cookies are introduced, they will fall into the following categories. The specific cookies used in each category are to confirm.
- Strictly necessary — required for the website to function, such as security, load balancing and remembering items in a basket. These do not require consent.
- Functional — remember preferences you have set, so the site behaves the way you expect on your next visit.
- Analytics and performance — help us understand how the site is used so we can improve it. These require your consent.
- Marketing — used to measure or deliver advertising. These require your consent. Whether ForgeBike will use any is to confirm.
Consent
Under UK law, cookies that are not strictly necessary may only be set with your consent. Because this website currently sets no such cookies, it does not display a cookie banner.
Before any analytics or marketing cookies are introduced, a consent mechanism must be added that lets you accept or reject them and change your mind later. Implementing that is outstanding before launch.
Third-party cookies
Third-party services can set their own cookies when embedded in a page. The founder video planned for the Meet the Founder page is one likely example, depending on where it is hosted.
The full list of third-party services, the cookies they set, and links to their own privacy policies are to confirm.
Managing cookies
You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers let you see what cookies are stored, delete them individually or all at once, and block them from being set. Look for “Cookies” or “Site data” in your browser's privacy settings.
Blocking all cookies may stop parts of some websites from working properly. Because this site currently relies on none, blocking them will not affect how it works for you today.
Changes to this policy
We will update this page whenever the cookies used on this website change, with a revised effective date.
Contact us
For any question about cookies on this site, contact us at contact email. For more on how we handle personal information, see our Privacy Policy.