Cookie Policy

Last updated: 10 November 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Barking Mad Dog Training uses cookies and similar technologies on barkingmaddogtraining.co.uk.

It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.

1. Who We Are

This website is operated by:

Donna Connelly
Trading as Barking Mad Dog Training
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Email: donnaconnelly24@gmail.com
Telephone: 07939 721513

2. What Is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of information stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies can help websites:

• work correctly;
• keep users securely signed in;
• remember choices;
• maintain shopping baskets or bookings;
• prevent fraud;
• understand how a website is being used;
• measure advertising or marketing activity.

Similar technologies such as local storage, pixels and tags may perform comparable functions.

In this policy, we refer to these technologies collectively as "cookies".

3. Types of Cookies We May Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for our website or requested services to work properly.

They may be used for:

• website security;
• login sessions;
• customer accounts;
• booking processes;
• payment processes;
• preventing fraud;
• remembering cookie choices;
• maintaining information during checkout.

Because these cookies are necessary to provide services requested by you, they do not normally require your consent.

Blocking them may prevent parts of the website from working correctly.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may help the website remember choices or provide additional features.

Examples can include:

• remembering preferences;
• maintaining interface settings;
• remembering selected options.

Where consent is required by law, these cookies will not be activated until you have made the appropriate choice.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website.

They may provide information such as:

• pages visited;
• how visitors reach the website;
• approximate session length;
• device type;
• browser type;
• website errors;
• general patterns of website usage.

We may use services such as Google Analytics or another analytics provider.

Where our implementation requires consent under applicable law, analytics cookies will remain disabled until you choose to allow them.

Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Where used, marketing cookies may help us:

• measure advertising campaigns;
• understand whether an advert led to a website visit;
• show more relevant advertising;
• limit repeated advertisements.

These cookies may be provided by services such as Google, Meta/Facebook or other advertising platforms.

We will not activate consent-controlled marketing or advertising cookies unless you choose to allow them.

Third-Party Cookies

Some features supplied by external organisations may set their own cookies.

These could include:

• embedded videos;
• maps;
• social-media content;
• payment services;
• booking tools;
• analytics services.

Where required, these services will be blocked or limited until the relevant cookie permission has been given.

Third parties are responsible for their own privacy and cookie practices.

4. Cookies Used on This Website

The exact cookies used by Barking Mad Dog Training may change as the website and its services develop.

At present this website uses the following:

• orbis_cookie_consent (stored in your browser by this website; strictly necessary): remembers whether you chose "Essential only" or "Accept all". It stays until you clear it in your browser.
• PHPSESSID (set by this website; strictly necessary): a session cookie used only when you send a form, such as the contact form, to keep the form secure. It expires when you close your browser.
• Visit statistics (this website; analytics; only if you choose "Accept all"): records the page viewed, the page you came from and whether you are using a mobile or desktop device. No analytics cookie is set and no third-party analytics service is used.

We do not currently use advertising or marketing cookies. If that changes, this policy will be updated first and consent-controlled cookies will not be used unless you allow them.

We periodically review the technologies used by the website and update our cookie information where required.

5. Cookie Consent

When you first visit the website, you may be shown a cookie banner or cookie-preference tool.

You should be able to:

• accept optional cookies;
• reject optional cookies;
• choose particular categories where available.

Strictly necessary cookies may operate without consent because they are required for the website or a service you have requested to function.

Where consent is legally required, optional cookies will not be activated unless you make a positive choice to allow them.

Simply continuing to browse the website is not treated as consent to optional cookies.

6. Changing Your Mind

You can change or withdraw your cookie choice at any time by clearing this website's cookies and site data in your browser. The cookie banner will then appear again so you can make a new choice. You can also contact us and we will help.

Withdrawing consent does not make earlier processing unlawful, but it will prevent relevant optional cookies from being used going forward where technically possible.

You can also delete existing cookies through your browser.

7. Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to:

• view cookies;
• delete cookies;
• block cookies;
• block third-party cookies;
• clear browsing information;
• receive warnings before cookies are stored.

The method varies between browsers.

Blocking all cookies may prevent certain website functions, including login, booking or checkout facilities, from working correctly.

8. Payments

If you make an online payment, the payment provider may use cookies or similar technologies for:

• security;
• fraud prevention;
• payment authentication;
• completing your transaction.

Some of these technologies may be necessary to provide the payment service you have requested.

Payment providers may also operate under their own privacy and cookie policies.

9. Social Media

Our website may provide links to services such as Facebook or Instagram.

If social-media content is embedded directly within a page, the relevant provider may attempt to place cookies or collect information.

Where such technologies require consent, they should not be activated until the appropriate permission has been given.

Simply following an ordinary link to an external social-media website will take you to that provider's service, where its own privacy and cookie rules apply.

10. Embedded Content

Pages may contain content hosted by another organisation, such as:

• video;
• maps;
• social-media posts;
• booking widgets.

Third-party embedded services may collect technical information such as an IP address or set cookies.

Where legally required, such content may remain disabled until you give the appropriate permission.

11. Data Collected Through Cookies

Depending on your choices and the technologies being used, cookie-related information may include:

• IP address;
• device identifiers;
• browser information;
• operating system;
• pages visited;
• referral source;
• approximate location derived from an IP address;
• website interactions;
• date and time of visits.

For information about how personal information is used, please read our Privacy Policy.

12. How Long Cookies Last

Cookies may be either:

Session Cookies

These normally expire when you close your browser.

Persistent Cookies

These remain for a specified period or until you delete them.

The duration depends on the purpose of the particular cookie.

The expiry of each item this website currently uses is shown in section 4.

13. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when:

• the website changes;
• new functionality is introduced;
• cookie providers change;
• the law or regulatory guidance changes.

The latest version will be published on this website.

Where a material change affects consent previously given, we may ask you to make your cookie choices again.

14. Contact Us

If you have questions about our use of cookies or personal information, please contact:

Donna Connelly
Barking Mad Dog Training
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Email: donnaconnelly24@gmail.com
Telephone: 07939 721513

For information about your data-protection rights, please see our Privacy Policy.