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Cookie Policy

Last updated: 25 August 2026

Cookies and similar technologies (local storage, session storage) let the tour work and — only with your consent — help us understand how the experience is used. Strictly necessary items are always active; everything else is off until you accept it in the banner. You can change your mind at any time via “Cookie settings” in the footer of this website, or in the player when you are taking a tour.

NameCategoryPurposeLifetime
pt_sessionStrictly necessaryIdentifies your listener session so your tour access, saved progress and free-demo progress (including whether the demo has already been used) are restored.12 months (HttpOnly, Secure)
pt_consent (cookie, with local storage fallback)Strictly necessaryStores your cookie choices so we can honour them on later visits. If your browser blocks the cookie, the same record is written to local storage instead.12 months (until cleared, in local storage)
pt-theme (local storage)Strictly necessaryRemembers light/dark appearance.Until cleared
sb-…-auth-token (local storage)Strictly necessarySet only for staff signing in to the private admin area: keeps the authenticated session so the admin stays signed in. It is not set for visitors taking a tour.Until sign-out or cleared
pt_open_buy / pt_open_demo / pt_highlight_buy (session storage)Strictly necessaryRemembers, for the current tab only, that you followed a link that should open the ticket dialog or start the demo.Until the tab is closed
Player state keys (session storage)Strictly necessaryKeeps the current stop, volume and playback speed while the tab is open.Until the tab is closed
Essential session records (server-side)Strictly necessaryTour and session state, stops reached or completed, audio start/completion status, listening time, saved position and speed, plus security and error logs needed to deliver and restore the tour.24 months after your last activity
Pop-up display state (server-side)Strictly necessaryRecords that a pop-up or the mid-tour question has already been displayed in your tour, so it is not shown to you again.24 months after your last activity
Consent audit record (server-side)Strictly necessaryStores your cookie choices (including “no decision yet”) as a compliance record, so we can demonstrate which preferences applied to your visit.24 months
Behavioural analytics events (server-side)Analytics — consentOptional detailed interaction data: how you interact with pop-ups and the interface, autoplay diagnostics, listening behaviour and the text of any feedback you submit, used to improve the tours.12 months
GPS route points (server-side)Analytics — consentThe coordinates you walked during a tour, stored as a route history for route analysis. Without this consent your live location is used only to run GPS mode and is not retained as a route history.12 months
_gaAnalytics — consentSet by Google Analytics to distinguish visitors and produce aggregated statistics about how this website is used. Set only after you accept analytics cookies.2 years
_ga_* (property-specific)Analytics — consentSet by Google Analytics to maintain the session state used for aggregated statistics. Set only after you accept analytics cookies.2 years
_gid / _gat / _gat_gtag_* (if set)Analytics — consentAdditional Google Analytics identifiers used to distinguish visitors and limit the rate of requests. Set only after you accept analytics cookies.24 hours or less
pt_first_attrib / pt_last_attribMarketing — consentRemembers the campaign, ad or partner link that brought you here (first- and last-touch attribution).12 months

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4, provided by Google Ireland Limited, to understand how this website is used. The Google Analytics tag is loaded only after you accept analytics cookies in the banner; until then it is not loaded and no Google Analytics cookies are set.

When it is active, Google receives your IP address, cookie identifiers, the pages and routes you view, referrer and campaign information, an approximate location derived from your IP address, and basic device, browser and interaction information. Google processes this to give us aggregated statistics. We do not send Google your email address, access code, GPS coordinates or any other information that identifies you directly.

Google may process this data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States, under the safeguards described in our Privacy Policy. Event-level Google Analytics data is retained for no longer than the period configured in our property (maximum 14 months).

For details of how Google handles this data, see “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services” at google.com/policies/privacy/partners. You can also install Google's browser opt-out add-on from tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout to block Google Analytics on all websites.

Third parties

Loading the app, maps, routes, fonts and payment pages means your IP address and technical request information reach our hosting and infrastructure providers (Lovable and Cloudflare), our database and storage provider (Supabase), OpenStreetMap tile servers, FOSSGIS-operated routing services (Valhalla, OSRM) and BRouter, Cloudflare R2 for audio and image files, Google Fonts and UNPKG, Resend for ticket and access-code emails, our hosting platform's built-in email infrastructure (Lovable Emails) for account and sign-in emails, Stripe for payments, and — with your analytics consent — Google Analytics.

If you use the in-app help link, your message is handled by WhatsApp (Meta) under its own terms. Stripe may set its own cookies on its hosted checkout page. None of these providers set advertising cookies through our app. See the Privacy Policy for details, retention and transfer safeguards.

Managing cookies

Use “Cookie settings” in the footer of this website or in the player, or clear cookies in your browser. Analytics and marketing categories are off until you switch them on. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent tours from loading.

Withdrawing marketing consent deletes the attribution cookies immediately; withdrawing analytics consent stops Google Analytics from loading on later visits and stops any further behavioural analytics and GPS route history from being recorded. You can also delete the Google Analytics cookies in your browser settings. Withdrawal does not affect processing carried out before you changed your preferences.

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