Last Updated: 2 October 2026
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help the site function correctly, remember your preferences, and understand how the service is used. Similar technologies such as local storage, pixels, and tags may also be used for comparable purposes and are covered by this policy.
We use the following categories of cookies and similar technologies on our website:
These cookies are essential for the website to function and cannot be switched off. They include cookies that keep you signed in, verify your session, and remember your cookie consent preferences. Without these cookies, services you have requested cannot be provided.
We may use analytics cookies and similar technologies to understand how visitors interact with our website, for example which pages are visited most often, how users navigate between pages, and whether users encounter errors. This information helps us improve the performance and design of our service. The reports we read are aggregated; to produce them, the analytics provider processes your IP address and a device identifier.
When we advertise our own services, Google Ads tags on our websites measure whether a visit that started from one of our adverts went on to register, so we can invest in the channels that work. These cookies are set by Google and are subject to Google's privacy policy.
Some pages show advertising. Advertising we sell directly is shown without third-party cookies. Advertising served by Google AdSense uses cookies and similar technologies set by Google and its partners:
How to opt out of personalised advertising is set out under Your Choices below.
A visitor identification service provided by Instantly (Leadsy) uses your IP address and information your browser sends, and may set cookies, to identify the organisation a visit to our website comes from. We use it to contact organisations that have shown an interest in our services. See section 7 of our Privacy Policy for how to object.
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as display preferences or regional settings) and provide enhanced, more personalised features. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages.
We analyse how our website and platform are used in order to improve the service. This may include:
We do not sell analytics data to third parties. Our lawful basis for processing this data is legitimate interest under UK GDPR (Article 6(1)(f)). You can read more in our Privacy Policy.
These are the third parties whose cookies or similar technologies may be used on theplanningreview.co.uk and app.theplanningreview.co.uk:
| Provider | What it does | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics (Google) | Measures how our websites are used. | Both websites |
| Google Ads and Google Tag Manager (Google) | Measures how our own advertising performs. | Both websites |
| Google AdSense (Google and its partners) | Serves advertising, which may be personalised where you have consented. | Pages showing Google advertising |
| Instantly (Leadsy) | Identifies the organisation a visit comes from. | Both websites |
| Firebase Authentication (Google) | Keeps you signed in to the platform. Strictly necessary. | app.theplanningreview.co.uk |
| Cloudflare Turnstile | Checks that a visitor is a person rather than an automated program. Strictly necessary. | app.theplanningreview.co.uk |
| Stripe | Processes payments. Set only during checkout. | Checkout pages |
How Google uses information from sites that use its services is explained at How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps. Each provider's own privacy and cookie policy applies to the cookies it sets.
Personalised advertising. Visitors in the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland are asked for their consent, through Google's consent message, before Google uses cookies or other local storage to personalise the ads they see, and can change that choice at any time from the privacy and cookie settings link the message provides. Anyone can opt out of personalised advertising from Google at Google's Ads Settings, and from other vendors at aboutads.info/choices or youronlinechoices.eu.
Analytics. You can stop Google Analytics measuring your visits with Google's opt-out browser add-on.
You can also control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
Please note that disabling essential cookies may prevent you from signing in or using certain features of our service. Disabling analytics or advertising cookies will not affect the core functionality of the website.
For more information on managing cookies, visit aboutcookies.org.
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time as our use of cookies evolves. The latest version will always be posted on our website with the updated date shown above. We encourage you to review this page periodically.
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us at admin@theplanningreview.co.uk.