Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Nod, trading as part of the Optima Group, uses cookies and similar technologies on www.giveusthenod.co.uk and other Nod web experiences.

Cookies are small files or similar technologies that websites can store or access on your device.

They can be used to:

• enable essential website functionality;
• maintain security;
• remember preferences;
• understand how a website is used; and
• measure advertising or marketing performance.

We may use the following categories.

Strictly necessary cookies

These support functions required to operate our website or services, such as:

• security;
• authentication;
• session management; and
• essential website functionality.

Where a technology is genuinely necessary to provide a service requested by you, consent is not normally required.

Analytics cookies

Nod intends to use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website.

Analytics may help us understand:

• which pages are visited;
• how visitors navigate the website;
• how features are used; and
• how we can improve the website.

Where required by law, analytics technologies will not be activated until you have provided consent.

Advertising and measurement cookies

Nod may in future use Google advertising, conversion measurement or similar technologies.

These may be used to understand the effectiveness of advertising or marketing campaigns.

Where consent is required, these technologies will not be activated until consent has been provided.

Preference cookies

We may use technologies to remember non-essential choices or preferences.

Whether consent is required will depend on the particular technology and its purpose.

Where our website uses non-essential cookies, you will be provided with appropriate choices.

These may include:

• Accept all
• Reject non-essential
• Manage preferences

Where applicable, you will also be able to change or withdraw your consent through the website’s cookie settings.

Our final production cookie inventory will be published here once the production website configuration has been completed.

It should identify, where applicable:

• cookie/provider name;
• purpose;
• category; and
• duration.

This section must be completed following a cookie audit of the production website before launch.

Third-party services, including Google and Stripe, may use their own technologies when their services are loaded or used.

Their processing is subject to their respective privacy and cookie information.

We may update this Cookie Policy when the technologies we use or applicable legal requirements change.

The latest version will be available on our website.

Questions about our use of cookies can be sent to: