Cookies on spectrum-search.com.

Cookies are small files a website asks your browser to store on your device. They let the site remember things between page loads and across visits — for example, that you have already accepted a banner. Some are essential to the site working; others exist to help the operator understand how the site is used. The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and the UK GDPR require us to be clear about both kinds and to ask for your consent before we set anything that is not essential.

We try to keep the cookie surface deliberately small. We do not run advertising, retargeting, or cross-site tracking. There are only two categories on this site:

Essential

Essential cookies are required for the site to function or for a feature you have specifically requested. They are set without asking because the site cannot reasonably work without them.

• `ss_consent` — stores your cookie preferences (accepted / rejected / per-category choices) so the banner does not reappear on every visit. First-party, 12-month lifetime.
• Cloudflare Turnstile — Cloudflare may set a short-lived cookie when you submit a form, to confirm you are not an automated bot. Required for our contact forms to work.

Analytics — only with consent

We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to understand how the site is used in aggregate. GA4 only sets identifying cookies after you accept analytics in the banner.

• `_ga` — distinguishes individual visitors. Set by Google Analytics. 2-year lifetime (Google default). Set only after you accept analytics.
• `_ga_XQT92DHKX8` — per-property session state for our GA4 measurement ID. 2-year lifetime. Set only after you accept analytics.

Before you accept, GA4 runs in Google Consent Mode v2 with consent denied by default. In that mode, GA4 sends anonymous, cookieless "consent state" pings to Google but does not set the _ga cookies and does not record an identifier we could match to you. If you reject, GA4 never loads at all.

• No advertising or remarketing cookies.
• No social-media tracking pixels (Facebook, LinkedIn Insight, X, etc.).
• No cross-site behavioural profiles.
• No third-party data-broker enrichment.

You can change your choice at any time using the "Manage cookies" link at the bottom of every page. This reopens the consent banner and lets you accept analytics, reject it, or toggle the analytics category on or off individually. Your new choice is saved to the ss_consent cookie and takes effect immediately — if you reject analytics after previously accepting, GA4 stops loading and your existing _ga cookies will expire naturally (you can also clear them in your browser settings if you would prefer them gone today).

You can also reject all non-essential cookies via your browser settings. Every modern browser lets you block third-party cookies or clear all cookies for a specific site; the steps are slightly different in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge but the option is always under "Privacy" or "Site settings".

We honour Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals where your browser sends them. If GPC is set, analytics consent defaults to denied even if you have not yet interacted with the banner, and we treat the signal as an opt-out for analytics.

Spectrum Search Ltd is the data controller for cookies set on spectrum-search.com. Our registered address is B2, Witan Studios, 413 Witan Gate West, MK9 1EJ, United Kingdom. Questions, complaints, and data-rights requests should go to privacy@spectrum-search.com; we aim to respond within 30 days. The full data-protection picture — lawful bases, retention, subprocessors, your rights — sits in our Privacy policy.

If we add a new cookie category, or change a third-party provider, we will update this page and the "Last updated" date at the top. Material changes will also trigger a fresh banner so you can review your consent.