This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, which cookies and similar technologies are used on Slylar Box (https://theslylarbox.com), why we use them, and how you can control them.
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how we handle personal information.
By continuing to use this Website, or by giving consent through our cookie banner where one is displayed, you agree to the use of cookies as described below.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your computer, phone, or tablet when you visit. They are widely used to make websites work properly, to remember your preferences, to understand how visitors use a site, and to deliver relevant advertising.
Cookies set by the website you are visiting are called first-party cookies. Cookies set by another organisation, such as an analytics or advertising provider, are called third-party cookies.
We also use technologies that work similarly to cookies, including:
- Local storage and session storage, which store small amounts of data in your browser.
- Pixels and web beacons, which are tiny invisible images used to record that a page or email was opened.
- Software development kits and scripts loaded by third-party services embedded on our pages.
For simplicity, this policy refers to all of these as “cookies”.
2. Types of Cookies Used on Slylar Box
2.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the Website to function. They enable core features such as page navigation, security, load balancing, spam protection on forms, and remembering your cookie consent choice.
The Website cannot function properly without these cookies, and they cannot be switched off through our consent tool. They do not store information used for marketing.
Examples of what they do:
- Keep the site secure and detect malicious activity.
- Remember whether you have accepted or declined optional cookies.
- Protect our contact and newsletter forms from automated spam submissions.
- Support core WordPress functionality and caching.
2.2 Functional and Preference Cookies
These cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. They may remember display preferences or support embedded content and booking widgets.
If you block these cookies, some parts of the Website may not work as intended, and embedded elements may not display.
2.3 Analytics and Performance Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors find and use Slylar Box, so we can improve our content and layout. They collect aggregated and, where possible, pseudonymised information such as:
- Which pages are visited and in what order.
- How long visitors spend on a page.
- Which country or region traffic comes from.
- Which device, browser, and screen size is used.
- Which search terms or referring sites brought visitors to us.
- Which pages produce errors or load slowly.
We use Google Analytics (implemented via Google Site Kit) for this purpose. Google Analytics sets cookies to distinguish users and sessions and to throttle request rates. You can learn more in Google’s overview of how it uses data from sites that use its services.
We do not use analytics data to identify you personally.
2.4 Advertising and Targeting Cookies
Slylar Box is a free resource funded in part by advertising. We display ads served by third-party advertising networks, including Google AdSense.
These cookies are used to:
- Serve advertisements on our pages.
- Limit how many times you see the same advertisement (frequency capping).
- Measure ad performance, impressions, and clicks.
- Detect and prevent fraudulent ad activity.
- Serve advertisements that may be relevant to your interests based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
How Google’s advertising cookies work on this site:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this Website and other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to Slylar Box and other sites on the internet.
- Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
- Users may also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices.
- Third-party advertising vendors and ad networks not covered by the above may also serve ads on this site; where this occurs, those vendors’ own privacy policies apply to the data they collect.
Where required by law, personalised advertising cookies are only set after you give consent through our cookie banner. If you decline, you may still see advertising, but it will be non-personalised (contextual) rather than based on your browsing history.
2.5 Third-Party Embedded Content
Some pages include content embedded from other services, such as scheduling widgets, video players, social media embeds, or forms. When you load a page containing embedded content, that third party may set its own cookies and collect data about your interaction with the embed, exactly as if you had visited their website directly.
We do not control these cookies. Please refer to the privacy policy of the relevant provider.
3. Third-Party Services That May Set Cookies
The table below lists the main third parties whose cookies may be set when you use Slylar Box. This list may change as we add or remove services.
| Service | Purpose | Category | Privacy information |
| Google Analytics (via Google Site Kit) | Website traffic and usage measurement | Analytics | https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| Google AdSense / Google Ads | Serving and measuring advertisements | Advertising | https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads |
| Google Search Console (via Site Kit) | Search performance measurement | Analytics | https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| Calendly | Embedded scheduling and booking widget | Functional | https://calendly.com/legal |
| WordPress / hosting and security providers | Core site operation, caching, spam prevention | Strictly necessary | Provider-specific |
| Newsletter and form providers | Subscription handling and spam protection | Functional | Provider-specific |
| Social media platforms | Embedded posts and share functionality | Functional / Advertising | Platform-specific |
Third-party providers set and control their own cookies. We recommend reviewing their privacy and cookie policies directly for full details of what they collect and how they use it.
4. How Long Cookies Last
- Session cookies are temporary and are deleted automatically when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period, ranging from a few days to two years, or until you delete them manually.
The exact lifespan varies by cookie and provider. Advertising and analytics cookies are typically persistent so that returning visits can be recognised.
5. How to Control and Delete Cookies
You have several options for managing cookies.
5.1 Our cookie banner
Where a cookie consent banner is displayed on this Website, you can accept or reject non-essential cookies and change your preferences at any time using the consent link or icon provided.
5.2 Browser settings
All major browsers let you view, block, and delete cookies. You can usually find these controls under Settings, Privacy, or Security. Instructions for common browsers:
Most browsers also offer a private or incognito mode, which clears cookies when the window is closed.
5.3 Opting out of personalised advertising
- Google Ads Settings: https://adssettings.google.com/
- Digital Advertising Alliance (US): https://www.aboutads.info/choices/
- Network Advertising Initiative: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/
- Your Online Choices (EU/UK): https://www.youronlinechoices.com/
Opting out stops ads being personalised. It does not stop you seeing ads altogether.
5.4 Opting out of Google Analytics
You can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent your data being used by Google Analytics across all websites.
5.5 A note on blocking cookies
If you block all cookies, including strictly necessary ones, parts of this Website may stop working correctly. Forms may fail to submit, embedded content may not load, and your preferences will not be remembered between visits.
6. Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers send a “Do Not Track” (DNT) signal. There is currently no agreed industry standard for how websites should respond to DNT signals, and Slylar Box does not currently alter its behaviour in response to them. You can still manage cookies using the options in Section 5 above.
7. Children’s Privacy
Slylar Box is not directed at children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children through cookies or any other means. If you believe a child has provided information to us, please contact us so we can delete it.
8. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in the services we use, in technology, or in applicable law. When we make material changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page and, where required, request renewed consent.
We encourage you to review this page from time to time to stay informed about how we use cookies.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or about how we use cookies and similar technologies, please contact us:
Slylar Box Email: info@theslylarbox.com Website: https://theslylarbox.com Contact form: https://theslylarbox.com/contact/