Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy Melbourn Energy Superloop / DataGlow Energy Ltd

Last updated: 20.05.26

Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how Melbourn Energy Superloop (“we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website at melbourn.energysuperloop.co.uk. It explains what these technologies are, why we use them, and how you can control them.

Our approach is to use as few cookies as possible. We do not use cookies for analytics, advertising or tracking your behaviour across other websites.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or to work more efficiently, and to provide information to the website owner. Similar technologies include local storage in your browser.

Cookies set by our consent banner

When you visit our website, we use a consent banner (Complianz) to give you control over which cookies you accept. The banner itself sets a small number of cookies to remember your choices. Under UK PECR these are classed as strictly necessary, so they do not require your consent — but we list them here for transparency.

Cookie name

Purpose

Duration

Provider

cmplz_banner-status

Records whether the cookie banner has been dismissed

365 days

melbourn.energysuperloop.co.uk

cmplz_consented_services

Records which third-party services you have consented to

365 days

melbourn.energysuperloop.co.uk

cmplz_policy_id

Links your consent to the current policy version

365 days

melbourn.energysuperloop.co.uk

cmplz_functional

Stores functional-category consent flag

365 days

melbourn.energysuperloop.co.uk

cmplz_preferences

Stores preferences-category consent flag

365 days

melbourn.energysuperloop.co.uk

cmplz_statistics

Stores statistics-category consent flag

365 days

melbourn.energysuperloop.co.uk

cmplz_marketing

Stores marketing-category consent flag

365 days

melbourn.energysuperloop.co.uk

cmplz_user_data

Encoded summary of your consent choice

365 days

melbourn.energysuperloop.co.uk

 

YouTube videos embedded on our pages

Some of our pages include videos hosted on YouTube. If you accept marketing cookies, YouTube and Google will set the following cookies on your device when a video loads. Until you accept these cookies, the video is shown as a placeholder you can click to load.

Cookie name

Purpose

Duration

Provider

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Measures bandwidth available to the YouTube player UI

~6 months

youtube.com

YSC

Session identifier for tracking YouTube video views

Session

youtube.com

__Secure-YEC

Stores YouTube preferences and recommendation data

~13 months

youtube.com

__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN

Used by YouTube for staged feature rollouts

~6 months

youtube.com

PREF

Stores user preferences across Google services

~8 months

google.com

NID

Used by Google for ads, personalisation and security

~6 months

google.com

SOCS

Stores user state on Google consent banners

~13 months

google.com

CONSENT

Stores user consent state for Google services

~13 months

google.com

GPS

YouTube geographic-location tracking

Session

youtube.com

IDE

DoubleClick advertising — measures ad performance and serves targeted ads

~13 months

doubleclick.net

 

Third-party services we use

Our website uses two third-party services that do not set cookies themselves, but transmit your IP address and browser information to a third-party provider when our pages load. We list them here because they involve sharing limited data with another company.

Service

What it does

Provider

Data transmitted

Google Fonts

Loads the typography used across the site

Google (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com)

Your IP address, user-agent, referrer

Gravatar

Shows author profile images on pages that display them

Automattic (secure.gravatar.com)

Your IP address, user-agent, hashed email reference

What we do not do

To be transparent about what is and is not happening behind the scenes, we want to be clear about what our website does not do:

  • No Google Analytics, GA4 or Google Tag Manager
  • No Meta / Facebook Pixel
  • No Hotjar, Mouseflow, FullStory or other session-recording tools
  • No retargeting or advertising networks
  • No third-party social media share-tracking scripts

Managing your cookie preferences

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by clicking the “Manage cookies” link in our footer, which will reopen the cookie banner. You can also clear or block cookies in your web browser settings, though doing so may affect how some parts of our website work.

Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example if we add a new service to the website or if the rules change. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised.

Contact us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us at info@dataglow.energy