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What cookies BeautyZilla actually sets on this site, why, and how to change your mind at any time.

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What cookies are

Cookies are small text files a website stores on your device to remember information between visits — who you're signed in as, or which cookie categories you've already allowed. Some are essential for the site to function; others are optional and only run with your permission.

How BeautyZilla asks

When you first visit, a banner offers three equally weighted choices: "Accept all", "Reject non-essential" and "Manage", which opens a preference centre with one switch per category below. Nothing beyond the strictly necessary cookies runs until you allow its category. Your choice is recorded against the version of this policy you saw; if the policy changes materially we ask again.

We also signal your choice to Google's tag system using Consent Mode v2: before any tag loads, every non-essential storage type is set to "denied", and your decision updates those signals without a reload.

The cookies we actually set

Strictly necessary

Always on — the site can't function without these, so no consent choice applies to them (UK PECR regulation 6(4) exempts strictly necessary cookies from the consent requirement).

Strictly necessary
CookiePurposeDurationCategory
bz_sessionKeeps a salon owner or staff member signed in to the salon console.Session, up to 30 daysFirst party
bz_consumer_sessionKeeps a marketplace customer signed in to their account.Session, up to 30 daysFirst party
bz_consentRemembers which cookie categories you allowed, and which version of this policy you saw.180 daysFirst party
__stripe_midStripe fraud prevention — set by Stripe.js on pages that take a card (deposits, gift cards).1 yearStripe
__stripe_sidStripe fraud prevention — session-scoped companion to __stripe_mid.30 minutesStripe
bz_themeRemembers the salon console's light/dark theme choice.1 yearFirst party
bz_nav_collapsedRemembers whether the salon console's navigation rail is collapsed.1 yearFirst party
bz_operator_nav_collapsedRemembers whether the operator cockpit's navigation rail is collapsed.1 yearFirst party
bz_active_tenantRemembers which salon a signed-in owner with several salons is working in.Session / 1 yearFirst party
bz_active_locationRemembers which branch a signed-in staff member is working in.1 yearFirst party

Analytics

Only set once you allow the analytics category, and only for the vendors we have actually configured on this site at the time — you may see a subset of this list.

Analytics
CookiePurposeDurationCategory
_gaGoogle Analytics 4 — distinguishes visitors so page views can be counted as sessions.2 yearsGoogle
_ga_*Google Analytics 4 — keeps session state for one GA4 property.2 yearsGoogle

Marketing

Only set once you allow the marketing category, and only for the vendors we have actually configured on this site at the time — you may see a subset of this list.

Marketing
CookiePurposeDurationCategory
_fbpMeta Pixel — measures and targets our own advertising on Facebook and Instagram.90 daysMeta
_ttpTikTok Pixel — measures and targets our own advertising on TikTok.13 monthsTikTok

Third-party cookies

The analytics and marketing cookies above are set by third parties (Google, Meta, TikTok) once you allow their category — each vendor's own privacy policy governs how they use the resulting data beyond what we ask them to measure for us. We don't control those vendors' cookies directly, only whether their script loads on this site at all. The vendors, and what each processes, are also listed at /legal/subprocessors.

Your controls

You can control cookies in several ways, on top of our own banner:

  • Use "Cookie preferences" in the footer of any page to change your choice per category at any time.
  • Enable Global Privacy Control (GPC) in a supporting browser or extension — we honour it as an opt-out signal for analytics and marketing cookies, in line with US state privacy laws that require it.
  • Block or delete cookies directly in your browser settings — note this may affect strictly necessary cookies too, which could sign you out or break booking flows.

Changes to this policy

If the cookies we set change — a new analytics tool, for example — we update the registry this table is generated from, bump the version shown at the top of this page, and ask for your choice again.

Version history

  1. Version 1.0Table generated from the cookie registry; three consent categories.

Choose which optional cookies this site may set. Strictly necessary cookies are always on — the site does not work without them.

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