Pest Control
Cookie Policy
Analytics cookies are used only if you agree. Here is exactly what is stored, and why.
This site uses Google Analytics cookies only if you agree to them. Everything else it stores is there to remember your choices.
Your choice
The first time you visit, a banner asks whether we can measure how the site is used. Nothing is measured and no analytics code is loaded unless you choose Accept analytics. Choosing Reject analytics, or ignoring the banner, loads nothing. You can change your mind at any time with the cookie settings link, which is also in the footer of every page. If you withdraw consent, measurement stops straight away and the Google Analytics cookies are deleted. The analytics script already downloaded stays in your browser's memory until you next load a page, but it sends nothing further.
Analytics cookies (only if you accept)
- _ga and _ga_* (first-party cookies set by Google Analytics 4). They tell us which pages and services people look at, roughly where visitors come from, and which links they use, such as the telephone numbers and the quotation form. They last up to 13 months, or until you withdraw consent.
We never send Google anything you type into a form: not your name, telephone number, email address, postcode or description of the problem. When an enquiry is sent successfully we record only that it happened and which form was used. Google's advertising features (advertising cookies, ad personalisation and the use of this data for advertising) are switched off.
Strictly necessary storage
- avon-consent (local storage). Remembers your analytics choice and the date you made it, so the banner is not shown on every page. It lasts 12 months, after which we ask again.
- avon-welcome-dismissed-v2 (local storage, value “1”). Set when you close the one-time “welcome to the new Avon Pest Control website” notice, so that it is not shown to you again. It stays until you clear this site's data.
Neither is sent to us or to anyone else, and neither identifies you. Because they only remember choices you have made, we do not ask for consent before storing them.
What we do not use
- No advertising or retargeting cookies.
- No social media tracking pixels.
- No third-party chat, review or booking widgets.
The third-party requests the map makes
The typefaces and everything else on this site are served from this website's own domain, apart from Google Analytics (only if you accept it) and the map on the Areas Covered page. When you scroll near the map, your browser fetches the map software (MapLibre) from jsDelivr (cdn.jsdelivr.net), the map itself from OpenFreeMap (tiles.openfreemap.org) and hill shading from Amazon Web Services (s3.amazonaws.com). Like any web request, each of these gives the provider your IP address and basic technical information such as your browser type. None of them sets a cookie, and nothing from the map is stored in your browser.
Clearing what is stored
You can clear cookies and site data for this domain at any time in your browser settings. That removes everything above, and the banner will ask for your choice again on your next visit.
More detail on what we do with personal information is in the privacy policy. If anything here is unclear, email info@avonpestcontrol.co.uk.