Cookie Policy
Public page counting while you are signed out, and the storage needed to keep your sign in and unsent words safe.
The short version.
This site has two halves, and they are governed by two different promises.
On the public pages, before you sign in, we count how the site is being used. Which pages get read, and where visits come from. It is aggregate, it never follows you off this site, it never triggers anybody contacting you, and you can stop our counter on this device at any time. No banner, because there is nothing here we need your permission for and a banner asking for permission we do not need would be theatre.
The moment you sign in, counting stops. Inside A Place to Land nothing records what you open, how long you stay or how often you come back. There is no other analytics on the site. The identifier stays in your browser until you clear it, and it is never joined to your account in our records.
No advertising. No tracking pixels. No cross site tracking. No session recording. No third party fonts. Nobody follows you anywhere.
1. What a cookie is
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep, so that the site can recognise your browser next time. Similar technologies do the same job by other means, including local storage and session storage in your browser. Where this policy says "cookie" it means all of them.
2. The law, and the position we have taken
Cookies in the UK are governed by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, usually called PECR, alongside UK GDPR.
The general rule is that you must be told about anything stored on your device and must consent to it, unless it is strictly necessary to provide the service you asked for.
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 changed this, and the changes came into force on 5 February 2026. It inserted a new Schedule A1 into PECR, and paragraph 5 of that Schedule creates an exception for statistical purposes. In short, a site may store and read information on your device in order to count how its own service is being used, with a view to making it better, without asking for consent, provided that:
- the counting is about its own site and nothing else
- the information is not passed to anybody except to help improve that same site
- you are given clear and comprehensive information about it, which is what this section is
- you are given a simple, free way to object, and you have not objected
That is the basis we rely on for the public pages. There are limits built into it, and we meet them: the exception does not permit advertising, it does not permit following people across different sites, it does not permit identifying or profiling individuals, and it does not permit using what is collected to make a decision about anybody. We do none of those things, and section 3 sets out what we do instead.
We are relying on this deliberately, having previously said we would not. An earlier draft of this policy said we would rather not know anything at all. On reflection, the honest position is that Teri needs to know whether the public pages actually explain this well enough for the people who need it, and counting who reaches which page is the only way to find that out. What matters is where our own counting stops, and it stops when you sign in.
3. The public pages
What is counted
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Which pages are viewed, and in what order | To see which pages help people understand what this is, and which lose them |
| The website that linked to us, if your browser tells us | To know where the people who need this are finding it |
How our own counter is stored. One small thing: a random identifier named true-self-visitor, kept in your browser's local storage. With each page view we record that identifier, the page, the website you came from, if any, and the time.
| What | What it is for | How long it lasts | Who sets it |
|---|---|---|---|
true-self-visitor, a random identifier in local storage | So page views from one browser can be counted together | Until you clear this site's data | Us |
The individual level records behind our totals are deleted after 13 months. The counting identifier is used for counting and nothing else.
What we do not do
- Nothing follows you off this site. No advertising or social media pixels, including Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and Google Ads. No advertising networks. No retargeting. No cross site tracking of any kind.
- We do not use Google Analytics.
- Nothing records your screen. No session replay, no mouse tracking, no scroll or keystroke capture, no heat mapping of individuals.
- Nothing builds a picture of you. No profile, no score, no inference about who you are or what you might need.
- Nothing here ever causes anybody to contact you. If you change your mind at the payment page, nobody will chase you. There is no basket sitting somewhere with your name on it, and nothing on your device tells us who stopped. We do see, from Stripe's own transaction records rather than from anything here, a simple total of payments begun and not completed, and section 6 explains that. It is a number, not a list.
- No chat widget, and no fonts loaded from a third party server, because that would hand your address to somebody else. Our typeface is served from our own domain.
How to say no. Use the switch below to stop counting on this device, or turn on Global Privacy Control in your browser. Clearing this site's data in your browser also resets the identifier.
4. Where the counting stops
This is the part worth reading twice, because it is the whole design.
Our counter described in section 3 applies only to public pages while you are signed out. Inside A Place to Land, our counter does not record:
- the pages you open
- how long you spend anywhere
- what you write
- how often you return
Nobody is watching how long you sat with a blank page before you started writing.
And the two halves are never joined. Our counter does not run while you are signed in, and its identifier is never joined to an account in our records.
5. Once you sign in
Signing in requires one session value held in your browser's local storage. It is strictly necessary, which means the law does not require us to ask your consent for it.
| What | What it is for | How long it lasts | Who sets it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sign in session | Keeps you signed in | Until you sign out | Us, through our sign in provider Supabase |
Unsent writing and unsent voice notes are kept in this browser until you send, save or delete them, so nothing is lost if the connection drops. They stay on the device after you sign out, so please send or delete them on a shared device. They are strictly necessary for the feature you are using.
6. When you pay
Payment is taken by Stripe, and we send you to Stripe's own checkout page to do it rather than embedding their payment form in ours. That is deliberate: it means Stripe's cookies are set on Stripe's page, at the moment you choose to pay, and not on our pricing page while you are still deciding.
On that page, Stripe sets cookies of its own to process the payment and to run the fraud checks that stop stolen cards being used. Stripe is a controller in its own right for that, and its own policy applies. It is at stripe.com/privacy, and its cookie information is at stripe.com/cookies-policy/legal.
We do not receive Stripe's cookies and we cannot read them. Your account is opened before you pay, so our records show that a checkout was started and not finished. Nobody will contact you about it.
7. Voice notes and downloads
A private voice note is turned into text only if you choose Show the words. A voice note you send to Teri is turned into text when you send it. The service that does this is named in the [Privacy Notice]. Voice recordings and downloadable resources are held in a private store and served to you through links that expire. Those links are not cookies and do not track you. They exist so that a file cannot be reached by anybody who has not signed in as you.
Some links, such as booking a call through Calendly or a resource on another website, take you to other sites, which set their own cookies. The welcome video is played from our own site.
Hosting cookies
The hosting platform's own analytics are switched off, so the only counting on this site is our own counter, described in section 3.
When checked on 9 October 2026, the hosting network set __cf_bm for about 30 minutes for automated traffic and security management, and __dpl for seven days as part of delivering the site. These are strictly necessary for the site to be delivered securely, and are set by the hosting network (Lovable, using Cloudflare) rather than by A Place to Land. They do not track you and are not used for analytics.
8. Managing cookies yourself
Use the switch in section 3 or Global Privacy Control to stop our counter. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings, and every major browser lets you do it. Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge each keep this under settings, usually under Privacy.
If you block the strictly necessary cookies listed in section 5, the space will not be able to keep you signed in, so you will not be able to use it.
Global Privacy Control switches off our counter. Older Do Not Track signals are not used.
9. If any of this changes
There is no advertising or retargeting on this site today, and none is running. If we ever introduce any, it falls outside the exception in section 2 entirely and would need your consent, not merely a chance to object. So you would see a proper choice before anything was set, saying no would be exactly as easy as saying yes, this policy and the [Privacy Notice] would be reissued first, and we would not do it quietly.
The same goes for anything else that stores information on your device: the version and date at the top change before it goes live, not afterwards.
What will not change is that our counter never runs while you are signed in.
10. Getting in touch
Write to privacy@thetrueself.me, or to Teri Potter t/a The True Self, c/o TWP Accounting, The Old Rectory, Church Street, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 8DE.
If you are not satisfied with how we have handled a question about your information, you can complain to us at privacy@thetrueself.me, and then to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113.
The True Self · Cookie Policy · Version 3.3 · 20 October 2026 Related documents: [Privacy Notice] · [Terms of Use] · [Safeguarding Policy]