Last updated: 22 September 2026

This page lists every cookie this website sets, what each one is for and how long it lasts. It is short because there is not much to list.

What a cookie is

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep, so that something can be remembered between one page and the next — which language you are reading in, for example. Some are set by us; some are set by another company whose service runs on the page.

The cookies this site uses — strictly necessary

The first three are set whatever you choose in the banner: the site cannot do what you have asked of it without them. The fourth is set only if you use the currency switch. None of them follows you to another website.

locale — set by us. Remembers whether you are reading in English or Spanish, so you are not sent back to the wrong language next time. Lasts 1 year.
rockstar_consent — set by us. Remembers the choice you made in the cookie banner, so we stop asking. Lasts 180 days, after which we ask again.
_GRECAPTCHA — set by Google. Used by reCAPTCHA to tell a person from a bot when you send us a form. Lasts about 6 months. See the section on reCAPTCHA below, which explains what this one involves.
rockstar_currency — set by us, and only if you press the € / £ switch on the quote page. Remembers which of the two you asked to read prices in, so you do not have to press it again. Lasts 1 year. It changes nothing but the symbol on the screen: whatever it says, a deposit is always charged in euros.

The cookies this site uses — analytics, only if you accept

We count visits, using Google Analytics loaded through Google Tag Manager, and Metricool. They tell us how many people came, which pages they read, where they came from and roughly where in the world they were. Neither is connected to your name, your email or any enquiry you send us.

Nothing here loads unless you accept it. If you chose Reject, or have not answered yet, the tag manager is never fetched at all — no request to Google, no cookie set. That is checkable: open the network tab and look for googletagmanager.com. Tag Manager itself sets no cookie; the two below are set by Analytics once it runs.

Metricool sets no cookie and stores nothing on your device. Once you accept, each page you open sends one request to tracker.metricool.com with the page address, the size of your window and the page you came from. The same check applies: with analytics off, nothing is ever requested from metricool.com.

_ga — set by Google. A random number that lets Analytics tell one browser from another, so two visits in a week are not counted as two people. Lasts 2 years.
_ga_* — set by Google. The same job, per property; the suffix is the property’s own id. Lasts 2 years.

You can change your mind at any time — see “How to change your choice” below. Turning analytics off stops any further collection; cookies already set can be deleted in your browser.

Storage that is not a cookie

If you use the quote builder, your answers are held in your browser under the name rockstar:quote-draft:v1 — the options you picked, plus the name, email and phone number you typed. It exists so that leaving the page to pay a deposit and coming back does not hand you an empty form.

It is kept in session storage rather than a cookie, which means it belongs to that one browser tab, is deleted when you close it, and is never sent to us until you actually submit. It expires after 24 hours in any case.

What this site does not use

For the avoidance of doubt, and because it is still unusual enough to be worth stating:

No advertising, remarketing or conversion tags.
No social media pixels or share-button trackers.
No session recording, heatmaps or scroll tracking.
No cross-site tracking, and no data sold or passed to a data broker.

Nothing on this site builds a profile of you. You do not have to take our word for it — open your browser’s developer tools and look at the network and cookie tabs. Reject analytics and you will find the necessary cookies listed above and nothing else.

reCAPTCHA, and what it involves

Our forms are protected by Google reCAPTCHA, and we have classified it as strictly necessary. You should know what that means in practice before you decide whether you agree with us.

When you open a page with a form on it, reCAPTCHA sends your IP address and information about your browser and how you behave on that page to Google, including to servers in the United States. That is how it distinguishes you from a bot, and it happens whether or not you go on to submit anything.

We treat it as necessary because it is fraud prevention for something you asked to do — contact us — and because without it the contact form, the enquiry form and the newsletter would be filled with spam within days and would have to be switched off. Some data protection authorities take the view that reCAPTCHA should require your consent rather than being treated as necessary. That view is reasonable and we would rather set out the trade-off here than hide it in a table.

Google’s use of that data is governed by its own Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

How to change your choice

Use the “Consent Preferences” link at the bottom of any page. It reopens the same panel you saw when you arrived, and your choice takes effect immediately.

Blocking cookies in your browser

Every browser lets you block or delete cookies — usually under Settings, then Privacy. Doing so is entirely your right, but be aware of what it costs here: the site will forget which language you read in, and it will ask you about cookies on every single page, because the record of your answer is itself one of the cookies.

Changes to this policy

If we add anything that sets a cookie, this page changes in the same release, and the cookie banner asks you again rather than assuming your previous answer still covers it.

Getting in touch

Any question about this page can go through the contact form on this site, and we will answer it.