Cookie Policy.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of information that websites can store on or read from a visitor's device.

Websites may also use technologies that perform similar functions, including:

• Browser cookies
• Local storage
• Session storage
• Pixels
• Tags
• Scripts
• SDKs
• Device or browser identifiers
• Consent-preference storage
• Security tokens

For simplicity, this policy refers to these technologies collectively as "cookies" or "similar technologies".

2. Why We Use Cookies

JF Web Development may use cookies or similar technologies to:

• Operate jfwebdev.com
• Protect the website against abuse
• Maintain website security
• Process forms
• Remember cookie choices
• Maintain technical sessions
• Process payments where requested
• Diagnose technical problems
• Measure website performance where consent has been given
• Understand website usage where consent has been given
• Measure advertising or conversions where consent has been given
• Enable third-party functionality where appropriate

We distinguish between cookies that are technically necessary for the website to work and optional technologies used for analytics, marketing or enhanced functionality.

3. Our Cookie Consent Approach

Where consent is legally required, JF Web Development will not intentionally activate non-essential cookies or tracking technologies until the visitor has made an affirmative choice.

Our approach is:

• Strictly necessary technologies may operate without consent where the applicable legal exemption applies.
• Analytics cookies remain disabled until consent where consent is required.
• Advertising and marketing tracking remain disabled until consent.
• Conversion-tracking technologies remain disabled until consent.
• Social-media tracking remains disabled until consent where applicable.
• Non-essential third-party embedded technologies are consent-gated where required.
• Optional categories are not pre-selected.
• Continuing to browse the website is not treated as consent.
• Visitors can reject non-essential cookies.
• Visitors can manage individual categories where applicable.
• Visitors can change or withdraw consent later.

Where we store a visitor's consent preference, we will periodically ask the visitor to confirm their preferences again as appropriate.

4. Types of Cookies We May Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These technologies are required for the website or a service specifically requested by the visitor to function correctly.

They may be used for:

• Security
• Website routing
• Session management
• Fraud prevention
• Cookie-consent preferences
• Form functionality
• Payment security
• Essential server or hosting functions

Where the legal strictly-necessary or communications exemption applies, these technologies may operate without prior consent.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics technologies help us understand how visitors use our website.

They can provide information such as:

• Number of visits
• Pages visited
• Approximate traffic sources
• Website interactions
• Technical performance
• Errors
• General usage patterns

Analytics technologies will be disabled until consent where consent is legally required.

If analytics are not currently installed on jfwebdev.com, this category will remain inactive.

Functional and Preference Cookies

These technologies may remember non-essential choices or enable enhanced website functionality.

Examples can include:

• Optional display preferences
• Enhanced interactive functionality
• Third-party widgets
• Certain embedded services

Where storing or accessing information on a device requires consent and no exemption applies, these technologies will not be enabled before consent.

Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Marketing technologies can be used for activities such as:

• Conversion measurement
• Advertising measurement
• Audience creation
• Remarketing
• Campaign attribution
• Cross-site tracking
• Advertising optimisation

These technologies will not be activated before obtaining the visitor's consent where consent is required.

Embedded Third-Party Content

Our website may use or link to services operated by third parties.

Examples may include:

• Video services
• Maps
• Booking services
• Payment providers
• Chat services
• Social-media services
• Other interactive tools

Some embedded content can cause information such as your IP address, browser details or device information to be sent to the third-party provider.

Where an embedded service uses non-essential cookies or tracking, we will seek to prevent that service from loading until the appropriate consent has been given.

5. Cookie Register

The cookies and similar technologies actually active on jfwebdev.com must be accurately reflected in our website's Cookie Settings or cookie-management system.

The register should identify, where applicable:

• Cookie or storage name — the technical name used by the cookie, browser storage item, pixel or equivalent technology.
• Provider — the organisation or service responsible for the technology.
• Purpose — what the technology does and why it is used.
• Category — for example, Strictly Necessary, Analytics, Functional or Marketing.
• Duration — how long the cookie or information remains stored.

Our current baseline categories are as follows.

Consent Preference

Provider: JF Web Development and/or our cookie-consent provider

Purpose: Remembers the cookie choices made by a visitor so those choices can be respected.

Category: Strictly Necessary

Duration: According to the consent-management configuration, with preferences periodically reconfirmed.

Website Security and Technical Operation

Provider: JF Web Development and/or our hosting infrastructure

Purpose: Website security, routing, abuse prevention and essential technical operation.

Category: Strictly Necessary

Duration: Session-based or for the technical/security period reasonably required.

Stripe Payment Technology — Where Used

Provider: Stripe

Purpose: Payment processing, authentication, fraud detection and payment security when a visitor initiates a payment or subscription.

Category: Strictly Necessary where genuinely required for the payment requested by the user; other technologies depend on their purpose.

Duration: According to the Stripe technology used and Stripe's applicable settings.

Analytics — Where Enabled

Provider: The analytics provider actually configured on jfwebdev.com

Purpose: Measuring website traffic, interactions and performance.

Category: Analytics

Consent: Required before activation where applicable.

Duration: The exact cookies and durations must be shown in our Cookie Settings where the service is enabled.

Advertising or Conversion Tracking — Where Enabled

Provider: The advertising or marketing provider actually configured on jfwebdev.com

Purpose: Advertising measurement, conversion tracking, remarketing or audience functions.

Category: Marketing

Consent: Required before activation where applicable.

Duration: The exact cookies and durations must be shown in our Cookie Settings where the service is enabled.

Embedded Content — Where Enabled

Provider: Relevant third-party provider

Purpose: Displays external videos, maps, booking tools, chat systems, social content or other interactive services.

Category: Functional and/or Marketing depending on the service.

Consent: Non-essential storage or tracking is consent-gated where required.

Duration: Depends on the provider and must be disclosed where the service is active.

6. Analytics

If JF Web Development uses website analytics, analytics technologies will remain disabled until the visitor has provided the required consent.

We do not treat continued browsing as consent.

Visitors who reject analytics should still be able to access the core website and contact JF Web Development, except where a particular technical feature genuinely requires a separate service.

7. Marketing and Conversion Tracking

JF Web Development may use online advertising or conversion-measurement technology in the future.

Where such technology requires consent, it will not be loaded before consent has been provided.

Marketing cookies are not required simply to:

• View our website
• Request a quotation
• Contact us
• Purchase ordinary web-development services

Rejecting marketing cookies should therefore not prevent access to those ordinary services.

8. Social Media

JF Web Development maintains business pages on:

• Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/jfwebdev
• Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/jfwebdev/
• LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/jfwebdevelopment/

Our website may contain ordinary links to these profiles.

Following an external social-media link takes you to a service operated by that social-media provider. That provider may use its own cookies and tracking technologies in accordance with its own policies.

A normal outbound social-media link does not by itself mean that JF Web Development uses social-media advertising or tracking cookies on jfwebdev.com.

If JF Web Development installs a social-media pixel, advertising tag, embedded feed or another social-media tracking technology on jfwebdev.com, the technology will be:

• Properly classified
• Added to our cookie information
• Blocked before consent where consent is required
• Activated only following the visitor's appropriate choice

9. Stripe and Payments

JF Web Development may use Stripe for:

• Website-development payments
• Invoices
• Recurring website-care subscriptions
• Payment authentication
• Payment security
• Fraud prevention

When you choose to make a payment, you may interact directly with a Stripe-hosted checkout page or Stripe payment component.

Stripe may use cookies or similar technologies that are necessary to securely process the payment requested by you.

Stripe may also process information independently for purposes including security, fraud detection, authentication, legal compliance and operation of its payment platform.

10. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to websites that are not controlled by JF Web Development.

Examples include:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Client websites
• Payment platforms
• Booking services
• Other external websites

Once you follow an external link, the destination website may use its own cookies and tracking technologies.

Those technologies are governed by the external provider's policies rather than this Cookie Policy.

11. Managing Your Cookie Choices

Where jfwebdev.com uses optional cookies, visitors will be provided with a cookie-consent or Cookie Settings interface.

Depending on the technologies currently in use, you may be able to:

• Accept optional cookies
• Reject non-essential cookies
• Enable or disable individual categories
• Change previous preferences
• Withdraw previous consent

A persistent Cookie Settings link should be available from the website footer or another easily accessible location where optional tracking is used.

Withdrawing consent prevents future use of the affected optional technologies.

It does not make processing that lawfully occurred before withdrawal unlawful.

12. Browser Controls

Most web browsers also allow you to:

• View cookies
• Delete cookies
• Block cookies
• Block third-party cookies
• Clear site data
• Control local storage

Blocking all cookies may affect certain website functions.

Browser controls do not replace JF Web Development's responsibility to obtain consent before using non-essential technologies where consent is required.

13. Cookie Consent Records

Where reasonably necessary, JF Web Development or its consent-management provider may record information concerning a visitor's cookie choice.

This may include:

• Date and time of the choice
• Consent-banner version
• Policy version
• Categories accepted or rejected
• A pseudonymous consent identifier

These records may be retained where necessary to demonstrate that valid consent was obtained or withdrawn.

Visitors may periodically be asked to reconfirm their preferences.

14. International Data Transfers

Some third-party technology providers may process information outside Ireland or the European Economic Area.

Where cookie-derived information constitutes personal data and international transfer rules apply, appropriate safeguards will be used where required.

Further information is provided in our Privacy Policy.

15. Changes to Our Cookies

The technologies used on jfwebdev.com can change as we:

• Update the website
• Change hosting providers
• Add or remove analytics
• Change payment systems
• Add booking technology
• Add chat functionality
• Add advertising
• Add conversion tracking
• Add embedded media
• Update our development platform

Whenever a new non-essential technology is introduced, JF Web Development will seek to ensure it is correctly classified and appropriately consent-gated before deployment.

The cookie register and this policy should be updated where appropriate.

16. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect:

• Website changes
• Technology changes
• Legal requirements
• Regulatory guidance
• Changes to third-party providers

The latest version will be published on jfwebdev.com.

17. Privacy

Cookies and similar technologies can involve the processing of personal information.

For information about:

• Personal-data processing
• Legal bases
• Data recipients
• International transfers
• Data retention
• Your GDPR rights
• Security
• Complaints

please read the JF Web Development Privacy Policy.

18. Contact JF Web Development

If you have questions about cookies, privacy or your cookie choices, contact: