Cookie Policy.

1. What cookies are and when consent is required

Cookies and similar technologies can store information on, or read information from, your device. They may support website operation, security, consent preferences, analytics or optional third-party services. Under Irish ePrivacy rules, non-essential device storage or access generally requires prior, affirmative consent. A narrow exception can apply where storage is strictly necessary to provide a service the visitor expressly requested or solely to transmit communications. The exception must be justified for the particular technology.

2. Your cookie choices

Where optional cookies are used, our consent interface should let visitors Accept non-essential, Reject non-essential, or Manage preferences through comparably accessible choices. Optional categories must not be preselected, and silence, continued browsing or scrolling does not amount to consent. Non-essential technologies must remain blocked until the appropriate consent is recorded.

You can review, change or withdraw preferences through the persistent Cookie Settings control on our website. It should be as easy to withdraw consent as to give it. Cookie preferences should normally be reconfirmed within six months. Rejecting optional tracking should not prevent you from reading our website or requesting a quotation.

Cookie consent is entirely separate from acceptance of our Terms & Conditions, Stripe payment authorisation and any direct-marketing consent.

3. Categories of cookies and similar technologies

Not every category or example is necessarily active on jfwebdev.com.

4. Live cookie register

This register lists the cookies and browser-storage technologies actually used on jfwebdev.com, verified against the live website. It is updated whenever our technologies or suppliers change.

jfwebdev.com does not use advertising, remarketing or social-media tracking cookies. Payments are handled on Stripe-hosted pages, where Stripe's own necessary security technologies apply — no Stripe cookies are set by jfwebdev.com itself. If we enable a new optional technology, it is added to this register and blocked until the appropriate consent is given.

5. Stripe payment and subscription technology

When a visitor chooses to pay an invoice, make a website-related payment or subscribe to a website-care plan, they may be directed to a Stripe-hosted payment page. Stripe may use necessary device-storage and anti-fraud technologies to authenticate and secure the payment requested. Such technologies are not automatically equivalent to optional marketing or advertising trackers. Their precise identifiers and durations depend on the real Stripe integration and must be verified.

Stripe's own notices also apply to processing undertaken in Stripe-hosted environments under Stripe's responsibility. You do not have to consent to our optional marketing or analytics cookies in order to make a payment.

6. Lovable AI, hosting and third-party features

JF Web Development uses Lovable AI to assist with building websites and may use hosting or security infrastructure associated with deployed sites. Development tools being used behind the scenes do not, by themselves, establish that a Lovable cookie is installed on your browser when you visit jfwebdev.com.

Any cookies or device identifiers set by our deployed hosting, platform, booking tools, embedded maps, videos, social content or AI chat features are listed in the live register above. Optional third-party embeds are blocked before consent or presented through an appropriate click-to-load mechanism where required.

7. Analytics and advertising

If analytics, advertising, conversion tracking or remarketing technologies are enabled, they must be disclosed and technically blocked until the visitor has given the consent required for their category. Links to our external social-media profiles are not, on their own, evidence that a social-media tracking pixel is installed on this website. The presence of any specific Google, Meta or other service must be verified rather than assumed.

8. Consent records, retention and international transfers

We or our consent-management provider may store a limited record of a visitor's choice, date, banner version, categories and a pseudonymous preference identifier where reasonably needed to demonstrate compliance. Consent-state storage should normally be refreshed within six months; separate records may be retained longer if appropriately justified. Where cookie-derived data is personal data and an international transfer occurs, the GDPR applies as described in our Privacy Policy. A cookie's lifespan is not necessarily the retention period of a payment or fraud-prevention record.

9. Changing your settings

Select Cookie Settings in the jfwebdev.com footer to change or withdraw optional consent. Browser settings may also let you remove stored cookies, but browser controls do not replace our duty to obtain valid consent. Withdrawing consent stops future non-essential processing for the relevant technologies; it does not retrospectively invalidate processing that was lawful before withdrawal.

10. Contact and updates

We update this policy when our actual technologies, suppliers, consent system or legal obligations change. Questions about personal-data use and GDPR rights are addressed in our Privacy Policy. For data-protection complaints you may also contact the Irish Data Protection Commission at https://www.dataprotection.ie.