Legal
Cookies
The short version: this site sets three things, all of them necessary for it to work, and none of them tracking you.
No advertising or analytics cookies
We run no advertising pixels, no third-party analytics and no cross-site trackers. Nothing on this site reports your visit to anyone else. If that changes, this page changes first and the consent bar will ask you before anything is set.| Name | What it does | Lasts | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| meridian_session | Keeps you signed in. Holds a random token - never your identity, your email or anything derived from them. | 14 days | Strictly necessary |
| meridian_basket | Remembers the services in your enquiry before you sign in, so a page reload does not empty it. An opaque random value with no personal data in it. | 30 days | Strictly necessary |
| meridian_cookie_choice | Stores whether you accepted or rejected, so we stop asking. Held in local storage rather than a cookie. | Until you clear your browser data | Strictly necessary |
Why we do not ask for consent to these
Under the ePrivacy rules, cookies that are strictly necessary to provide a service you have asked for do not require consent. Keeping you signed in and remembering what you put in your enquiry are both in that category. Everything else - the kind that would need consent - we simply do not run.
Refusing is as easy as accepting
The bar at the bottom of the page gives both choices the same prominence, the same size and the same number of clicks. That is a requirement, not a courtesy: regulators have ruled repeatedly that a prominent “accept” beside a faint “reject” does not produce valid consent.
Clearing them
Every browser lets you delete cookies and site data for a single site. Doing so here will sign you out and empty your enquiry, and nothing else will break.
More detail
The privacy policy covers everything else - what we collect, why, how long we keep it, and the rights you have over it.