Cookie Policy

1. About this policy

This Cookie Policy applies to the Beacon-AI website and online services operated by Beacon-AI, trading as Beacon-AI.

It explains what cookies and similar technologies are, why we may use them, when consent is required and how you can manage your choices.

This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use personal information more generally.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file stored on your browser or device when you visit a website. Cookies can help a website recognise a browser, maintain a login session, remember settings and understand how the service is used.

Some cookies last only until you close your browser. These are commonly called session cookies. Others remain for a defined period or until you delete them. These are commonly called persistent cookies.

Cookies may be placed directly by Beacon-AI or by a service provider whose technology is used on the website.

3. Similar technologies

This policy also covers technologies that perform functions similar to cookies, including:

• browser local storage and session storage;
• software development kits;
• tracking pixels and web beacons;
• device or browser identifiers;
• scripts that read or store information on a device; and
• similar storage or access technologies introduced in the future.

References to cookies in this policy include these similar technologies unless the context requires otherwise.

4. How Beacon-AI uses cookies

We may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• keep the website and account systems secure;
• authenticate users and maintain login sessions;
• prevent fraud, abuse and unauthorised access;
• remember cookie-consent choices;
• save interface settings and user preferences;
• provide Beacon+ account and membership features;
• maintain shopping, subscription or checkout sessions;
• diagnose errors and monitor technical performance;
• understand how visitors use Beacon-AI;
• improve navigation, content and recommendations; and
• measure the effectiveness of campaigns or affiliate activity where permitted.

5. Categories of cookies

6. Strictly necessary technologies

Some cookies and related technologies are necessary for Beacon-AI to work securely or to provide a feature you explicitly request.

These technologies may be used without consent where an applicable legal exception allows this. We still provide information about them and limit their use to the relevant essential purpose.

A technology is not treated as strictly necessary merely because it is useful to Beacon-AI. Analytics, advertising and optional personalisation technologies are not classified as essential simply because they help us operate or improve the business.

7. Analytics

Beacon-AI may use analytics tools to understand website traffic, feature use, errors and general performance.

Where analytics involves storing information on, or accessing information from, your device and no legal exception applies, the analytics technology will be optional and should not operate until you consent.

Analytics reports may contain aggregated or pseudonymous information such as page views, approximate location, device type, browser type, referral source and interaction events.

You may refuse analytics cookies without losing access to the main Beacon-AI service.

8. Cookie and technology inventory

The table below must be updated to match the cookies and similar technologies actually used in the live Beacon-AI service.

9. Third-party technologies

Some parts of Beacon-AI may rely on third-party providers. Depending on how those services are implemented, they may place or read cookies and similar technologies.

Stripe

Stripe may use cookies or similar technologies when providing checkout, payment security, fraud prevention and related services. Some payment technologies may be necessary to complete a transaction or protect the payment process.

Authentication and infrastructure providers

Account, hosting, database, security and infrastructure providers may use technologies needed to maintain sessions, prevent abuse, balance traffic or provide secure access.

Analytics providers

Analytics providers may receive technical and usage information if you consent to the relevant optional technologies.

Affiliate partners

Beacon-AI may include links to Amazon and other retailers, booking platforms or affiliate partners. Clicking an ordinary outbound link may communicate referral information to the destination website.

After you leave Beacon-AI, the destination website may use its own cookies under its own privacy and cookie policies. We do not control cookies placed on a third-party website.

Where Beacon-AI embeds third-party content or uses conversion-tracking technology on our own pages, we will seek any consent required before activating non-essential technologies.

10. Your consent choices

When consent is required, Beacon-AI should present a clear choice before the relevant optional technology is activated.

You should be able to accept or reject optional categories without being required to accept them as a condition of accessing the main service, except where a particular optional feature genuinely depends on that technology.

Consent must be an active choice. Continuing to browse the website, inactivity or the use of a pre-selected option is not treated as consent.

You may withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before your choice was changed.

11. Managing cookies in your browser

Most browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies. The available controls differ between browsers and devices.

Browser controls may allow you to:

• delete cookies already stored on your device;
• block all cookies or third-party cookies;
• allow cookies only for selected websites;
• receive a warning before a cookie is stored; or
• clear local storage and other site data.

Blocking cookies through your browser does not necessarily prevent every form of device storage or tracking. You may also need to use Beacon-AI's consent controls or the settings offered by the relevant third-party provider.

12. What happens when cookies are disabled?

You can reject optional cookies without losing access to the main Beacon-AI website. However, blocking strictly necessary technologies through your browser may prevent parts of the service from working correctly.

Depending on the technology blocked:

• you may be unable to sign in or remain signed in;
• account-security checks may fail;
• checkout or subscription payments may not work;
• Beacon+ account features may become unavailable;
• preferences stored on your device may be lost;
• cookie choices may need to be entered again; or
• some embedded or personalised features may not appear.

13. How long cookies remain

The duration of a cookie depends on its purpose. A session cookie normally expires when the browser is closed. A persistent cookie remains until its stated expiry date, until it is replaced or until you delete it.

We aim to use retention periods that are proportionate to the relevant purpose. The specific durations of technologies used by Beacon-AI should be listed in the cookie inventory above.

Some information produced through a cookie, such as a security log or aggregated analytics report, may be retained separately from the cookie itself. That information is handled according to our Privacy Policy.

14. Browser privacy signals

Some browsers send privacy signals such as “Do Not Track.” There is not always a consistent technical or legal standard for interpreting every signal.

Beacon-AI will continue to review recognised privacy signals and will respond where required by applicable law or supported by our consent technology.

15. Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when our technology, providers, legal obligations or business practices change.

The latest version will be published on this page with an updated revision date.

Where a change affects an existing consent choice, we may ask you to review or renew that choice.

16. Contact us

Contact us if you have questions about cookies, consent choices or the technologies used by Beacon-AI.