Cookie Policy (UK)
This Cookie Policy was last updated on September 28, 2026 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United Kingdom.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://juniperlea.com (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Essential (technical) cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing these cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Functional cookies
Functional cookies enable enhanced features, such as embedded videos and maps. We only place these cookies with your consent.
5.3 Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies let embedded services such as YouTube and Google Maps measure how their content is used. We do not run analytics of our own. We only place these cookies with your consent.
5.4 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
5.5 Social media
On our website, we have included content from Instagram to promote web pages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Instagram. This content is embedded with code derived from Instagram and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalized advertising.
Instagram are located in the United States.
6. Placed cookies
The table below lists each service this website may use, the cookies it can set, and the category each cookie falls under. The embedded YouTube video and Google Map set functional, analytics and marketing cookies, so they are only shown once you have accepted all three categories. The table-booking form on our menu page is provided by ResDiary and loads without asking for consent, because it is how you book a table; the cookies it brings with it are listed under ResDiary below.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare provides network infrastructure, content delivery, and security services. Cookies set by Cloudflare are strictly necessary for the site to function securely — they support bot protection, challenge verification, and network integrity. They do not track visitors across sites or serve advertising.
| Cookie name | Category | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
__cflb | Essential | Load Balancer session affinity cookie used to keep a visitor on the same origin pool and support seamless failover when configured. | Session; several seconds up to 24 hours |
__cf_bm | Essential | Supports Cloudflare bot products by distinguishing automated traffic from human visitors and carrying bot-score/session signals for protection logic. | 30 minutes of inactivity |
__cfseq | Essential | Sequence cookie used by Cloudflare bot sequence rules to evaluate request order and timing patterns. | Varies by Cloudflare configuration |
cf_clearance | Essential | Stores proof that a visitor passed a Cloudflare challenge (including Turnstile/Challenge flows) so repeat challenges can be reduced while maintaining security checks. | Varies by challenge/security configuration |
cf_ob_info | Essential | Always Online diagnostic cookie containing origin failure metadata (for example status code and Ray ID) for fallback handling. | 30 seconds |
cf_use_ob | Essential | Always Online routing cookie indicating that content should be fetched from the Always Online cache on a designated port. | 30 seconds |
__cfwaitingroom | Essential | Waiting Room state cookie that tracks visitor queue/admission status for hosts and paths protected by Cloudflare Waiting Room. | Varies by Waiting Room configuration |
__cfruid | Essential | Legacy Rate Limiting cookie used by previous Cloudflare rate-limiting implementations to manage incoming traffic. | Varies by Cloudflare configuration |
_cfuvid | Essential | Rate Limiting Rules cookie used (when enabled) to distinguish unique visitors sharing the same IP address, such as behind NAT. | Varies by Cloudflare configuration |
cf_chl_rc_i | Essential | Internal Challenge Platform diagnostic cookie used by Cloudflare to identify production issues on client-side challenge flows (including Turnstile-related challenge execution). | Varies by Cloudflare configuration |
cf_chl_rc_ni | Essential | Internal Challenge Platform diagnostic cookie used by Cloudflare to identify production issues on client-side challenge flows (including Turnstile-related challenge execution). | Varies by Cloudflare configuration |
cf_chl_rc_m | Essential | Internal Challenge Platform diagnostic cookie used by Cloudflare to identify production issues on client-side challenge flows (including Turnstile-related challenge execution). | Varies by Cloudflare configuration |
Google Maps
Google Maps provides interactive map embeds. It may set cookies to store user preferences, measure engagement, and serve personalised advertising through the Google advertising network.
| Cookie name | Category | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
NID | Functional | Stores a unique ID used by Google to remember user preferences and other information when Google Maps is embedded. | 6 months |
CONSENT | Functional | Records the consent state for Google cookies on the current device. | 2 years |
SOCS | Functional | Stores consent and preference settings for Google services. | 13 months |
AEC | Functional | Ensures that requests during a browsing session are made by the user and not by other sites, protecting against CSRF attacks. | 6 months |
DV | Analytics | Collects aggregated information used to build audience profiles; may also be used for personalised advertising. | A few minutes |
1P_JAR | Marketing | Used by Google to collect website statistics and track conversion rates for Google Ads campaigns. | 1 month |
YouTube
YouTube is a video hosting and sharing platform operated by Google. Standard YouTube embeds may set cookies to track video engagement, measure audience reach, and serve personalised advertising.
| Cookie name | Category | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
YSC | Functional | Registers a unique session ID to maintain statistics of videos watched via embedded YouTube players. | Session |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Functional | Estimates the user's bandwidth to determine whether to serve the new or legacy YouTube player interface. | 180 days |
yt-remote-device-id | Functional | Stores video player preferences (such as quality and volume) for embedded YouTube videos. | Persistent |
yt-remote-connected-devices | Functional | Stores information about devices previously connected via the embedded YouTube player. | Persistent |
GPS | Analytics | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location for analytics. | 30 minutes |
yt.innertube::requests | Analytics | Caches requests made to the YouTube internal API to improve performance. | Persistent |
PREF | Marketing | Stores user preferences and personalises the YouTube experience, including ad targeting based on content watched. | 2 years |
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Marketing | Stores privacy-related metadata to help YouTube serve personalised content and targeted advertisements. | 180 days |
ResDiary (table bookings)
Our table-booking form on the menu page is provided by ResDiary. It loads without asking for consent because it is how you book a table. When it loads, it also loads Stripe, ResDiary’s payment processor, whose fraud-prevention script sets the cookies below, and Cloudflare Web Analytics, which ResDiary uses to measure use of the form and which sets no cookies. These are set by ResDiary’s providers, not by us. Because the form is embedded from another site, browsers that block third-party cookies may not store them.
| Cookie name | Category | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
__stripe_mid | Essential | Set by Stripe (on booking.resdiary.com) to identify the device for fraud prevention on booking payments. | 1 year |
__stripe_sid | Essential | Set by Stripe (on booking.resdiary.com) to identify the browsing session for fraud prevention on booking payments. | 30 minutes |
m | Essential | Set by Stripe (on m.stripe.com) to identify the device for fraud prevention. | 2 years |
_ab, _mf, id, 1 | Essential | Session storage used by Stripe’s fraud-detection frame (m.stripe.network). | Until the browser tab is closed |
Cookie consent (this website)
Remembers the cookie choices you make in our cookie banner, so that we can respect them and do not ask again on every page. It is kept in your browser’s local storage and never sent to us.
| Cookie name | Category | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
rd-consent | Essential | Stores your cookie consent choices (local storage). | 365 days |
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on "Save preferences", you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
7.1 Manage your consent settings
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time: . The “Cookie Settings” link at the bottom of every page opens the same options.
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)).
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
The Juniperlea Inn
Blackshiels
Pathhead
EH37 5TE
United Kingdom
Website: https://juniperlea.com
Email: info@juniperlea.com
Phone number: 01875 833775