Cookie Notice
South Coast Hearing
Cookie Notice
Version 1.1
April 2026
This Cookie Notice explains how South Coast Hearing uses cookies and similar technologies on www.southcoasthearing.co.uk.
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites work properly, remember choices, improve performance, and understand how visitors use the site.
Similar technologies may also be used to store or access information on your device, such as pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, or embedded third-party tools.
1. Types of Cookies We May Use
Strictly necessary cookies
These are required for core website functions, such as security, page navigation, form submission, cookie preference management, and load balancing.
These cookies are usually necessary for the website to function and cannot normally be switched off through our cookie settings.
Analytics or performance cookies
We may use limited analytics or performance tools to understand how visitors use our website and to help improve it.
These tools may collect information such as pages visited, time spent on the site, device type, browser type, and general website performance.
Where analytics or performance cookies are not strictly necessary, we will ask for your consent before using them.
Functionality cookies
These remember choices you make, such as preferences, form settings, or display options.
Third-party cookies and embedded content
Our website may include links to or embedded content from third-party services, such as Google Maps.
Where third-party content is embedded into our website, the third-party provider may use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own privacy and cookie information.
Where these cookies are not strictly necessary, we will ask for your consent before they are used.
2. Google Search Console
We may use Google Search Console to understand how our website appears in Google Search results.
Google Search Console helps us review information such as search queries, clicks, impressions, indexing issues, and search visibility.
Google Search Console does not usually place cookies on visitors’ devices through our website.
3. Google Maps
Our website may include Google Maps links or embedded maps to help visitors find our location or service areas.
If you click a Google Maps link, you will be taken to Google’s own website or app, and Google’s own privacy and cookie information will apply.
If Google Maps is embedded directly on our website, Google may use cookies or similar technologies. Where required, these will only be used with your consent.
4. SumUp Booking Links
Our website may include links to a SumUp booking page so that you can request or arrange an appointment.
These links take you away from our website to SumUp’s own platform. SumUp’s own privacy and cookie information will apply when you use their website or services.
Because the SumUp booking page is linked rather than embedded on our website, SumUp cookies are not usually placed by our website before you click the link.
5. Consent
Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies or similar technologies on your device.
Strictly necessary cookies do not usually require consent.
Analytics, embedded third-party content, advertising, and other non-essential cookies usually require your consent before they are used.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time through our cookie banner or settings tool, where available.
6. Managing Cookies
You can manage cookie preferences through our cookie banner or settings tool, where available.
You can also control or block cookies through your browser settings.
Blocking some cookies may affect how the website works.
7. Personal Data
Some cookies or similar technologies may collect personal data, such as IP address, device information, browser information, website usage data, or information submitted through forms.
For more information about how we use personal data, please see our Privacy Notice.
8. Changes to This Notice
We may update this Cookie Notice from time to time.
The latest version will be published on our website.
9. Contact
If you have any questions about this Cookie Notice, please contact:
Email: hello@southcoasthearing.co.uk