Cookies

The short version

Orlando Obsessed is operated by Orlando Obsessed Ltd (registered in England and Wales, company number 14800946), the data controller for any personal data described here. Right now the site is in a coming-soon phase, and the only thing you can do is join our mailing list. While we are in this phase, the public site sets no cookies on your device: no advertising cookies, no analytics cookies, no third-party tracking, and the mailing-list form itself stores nothing on your device. That is why you do not see a cookie banner: there is nothing non-essential to ask you to agree to.

What this policy covers

When we say “cookies” we mean more than the small text files a website can save in your browser. The UK rules also cover other ways of storing information on your device, or reading information already stored there: local storage, pixels and web beacons, software development kits, and device fingerprinting. We mention these so you know this policy is not limited to ordinary cookies. We use none of these tracking technologies today.

What is stored on your device right now

Nothing that we set. In coming-soon mode the public site is deliberately storage-free: we do not place cookies or other identifiers on your device.

We do protect the mailing-list form from abuse, but we do this on our own servers, not on your device. When you submit the form we briefly check the rate of submissions using a one-way, non-reversible fingerprint of your network address, which is stored on our server and never as a cookie or anything else on your device. So the anti-abuse protection sets nothing for you to consent to. If our hosting or security providers ever need to set a strictly-necessary cookie to keep the site working or safe, we will list it here, with what it does and how long it lasts.

The rule we follow

Some cookies are strictly necessary: they are essential to deliver the service you asked for, such as serving the page securely and keeping it safe from abuse. The law does not require consent for those, judged from your point of view rather than ours. Everything else, including advertising, cross-site tracking, social-media pixels and non-essential analytics, needs your prior, opt-in consent before it is set. We use none of those while we are in coming-soon mode, so there is nothing here that needs your consent.

The standard we will hold ourselves to

If we ever introduce a non-essential cookie, the consent we ask for will meet the proper legal standard. It will be:

• Freely given: you can say no without losing access to the core service.
• Specific and informed: we will tell you clearly what each cookie does before you decide.
• Unambiguous: given by a clear affirmative action, such as clicking “Accept”.

We will never use pre-ticked boxes or opt-out defaults, and we will never treat carrying on browsing as agreement. Rejecting non-essential cookies will be as easy and as prominent as accepting them, with a clear “Reject” sitting right next to “Accept”. Where we rely on your consent, you will be able to change your mind at any time through a persistent cookie-settings link, and your choices will be granular.

A note on analytics

We do not run advertising or cross-site analytics. Any aggregate traffic insight our host provides is designed to work without cookies. We will only describe a tool as cookieless, and therefore outside these rules, once we have checked that it neither stores anything on your device nor reads anything already there. If a tool does store or read something on your device, we will treat it accordingly and, where it is not strictly necessary, ask for your consent first.

What changes when the full app launches

The full Orlando Obsessed community and trip-planning app is in development and not yet open. When accounts open, signing in will need a small number of essential first-party cookies to log you in and keep you logged in. These are strictly necessary, so they do not need your consent, and we will keep them single-purpose, used only for your session and security. We will list them here with their detail. Before any non-essential cookie is ever set, we will have a proper consent mechanism in place.

Managing cookies in your browser

You can clear or block cookies in your browser settings at any time. This is your own control and is separate from how we would obtain your consent. There is nothing for you to block on the coming-soon site today. Once the full app is live, blocking essential cookies may stop parts of it, such as staying signed in, from working.

How this fits with data-protection law

The cookie rules sit under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and are enforced by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO). Where a cookie also handles personal data, UK GDPR applies as well, so we need a lawful basis and have to be transparent. We keep this policy consistent with our Privacy Notice, which sets out the wider detail.

Related pages

For the full picture of how we handle your information, see our Privacy Notice and our Terms of Use. One thing to keep separate: when you join our mailing list you give an explicit email opt-in. That is governed by the direct-marketing rules, not by cookie consent, and the Privacy Notice explains it. Our registered address is shown in the footer below. For privacy or data-rights questions, contact privacy@orlandoobsessed.com; for anything else, hello@orlandoobsessed.com.