Cookie Policy

Last updated: September 7, 2025

Cookie Policy

Valora (Lloyd IT Limited)

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites work properly and provide information to website owners.

2. Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for our website to function properly:

  • Security: Protection against malicious attacks
  • Performance: Load balancing and basic functionality
  • Session Management: Maintaining your browsing session

Legal Basis: Legitimate interest (essential for website functionality)

Analytics Cookies

We use Fathom Analytics, a privacy-focused analytics service that:

  • Does not use cookies that track you personally
  • Does not collect personal data
  • Does not share data with third parties
  • Provides anonymous website usage statistics
  • Is fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and PECR

Fathom collects anonymised data about page views and basic usage patterns to help us improve our website.

Legal Basis: Legitimate interest (website improvement)

Hosting and Performance

Our website is hosted on Vercel, which may set essential cookies for:

  • Content delivery and performance optimisation
  • Security and DDoS protection
  • Basic functionality

These are technical cookies necessary for the website to operate properly.

3. Managing Cookies

Browser Settings

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling essential cookies may affect how our website functions.

Most browsers allow you to:

  • View what cookies are stored
  • Delete existing cookies
  • Block cookies from specific sites
  • Block all cookies (not recommended)

Fathom Analytics Opt-Out

While Fathom doesn't track you personally, if you prefer to opt out of analytics entirely, you can:

  • Use browser settings to block all analytics
  • Install privacy-focused browser extensions
  • Contact us to request exclusion from analytics

4. Third-Party Services

We only use privacy-focused services:

Fathom Analytics

Vercel Hosting

5. Data Retention

  • Essential cookies: Deleted when you close your browser or after a short period
  • Fathom analytics: Anonymised data retained for up to 2 years
  • Vercel hosting: Technical logs retained as per their standard practices

6. Your Rights

Since we use privacy-focused services that don't collect personal data, there's minimal data to manage. However, you can:

  • Contact us about our cookie usage
  • Request information about data processing
  • Opt out of analytics if desired

7. Updates

We may update this policy occasionally. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated date.

8. Contact Us

Questions about our cookie usage?

Lloyd IT Limited (trading as Valora)
13 Cae'r Delyn
Blackwood
Gwent

Email: support@valoradev.com