Cookie Policy

Effective Date: September 1, 2026

1. What a cookie policy usually lists

Most cookie policies sort cookies into four groups. Here is that list, honestly filled in for this site.

• Strictly necessary cookies: none. There is no login, no basket and no booking session to carry between pages.
• Functional cookies: none. The preferences this site remembers are described in section 2, and they are not cookies.
• Analytics cookies: none. This site loads Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. Clarity records session replays and builds heatmaps of how visitors move through the page. There is no Google Tag Manager, no Plausible and no Fathom.
• Advertising and marketing cookies: none. There is no Meta pixel, no remarketing tag and no retargeting of any kind. Nothing here follows you to another website.

A cookie notice appears on your first visit. It records your choice in your browser so it does not ask again; it does not currently switch Clarity or Google Analytics off, and we would rather say so than imply a control that is not wired up.

2. What is stored on your device, and for how long

This site has an accessibility panel. If you change any of those settings, the choice is saved so the site does not reset itself on the next page. Those values are held in your browser’s local storage, not in a cookie, and they are never transmitted to us or to anyone else.

• tf-theme — light or dark appearance
• tf-font-size — your chosen text size
• tf-high-contrast — high contrast mode on or off
• tf-reduce-motion — reduced motion on or off
• tf-reading-guide — reading guide on or off
• tf-link-highlight — link highlighting on or off

Duration: none of these has an expiry date, because no server sets one. There is no session cookie and no persistent cookie involved. Each value stays until you change the setting back or clear your browser’s site data for this domain.

3. Third parties

Microsoft Clarity (session replay and heatmaps) and Google Analytics run on this site. See our privacy policy, section 3, for what each one collects. The only scripts the pages load are our own.

• Our web host. The site is hosted on Netlify, which keeps ordinary server logs in order to serve the pages and block abuse. Those are logs, not cookies. Our privacy policy covers them.
• Forms. Submitting a form sends what you typed to us through our host’s form service. It does not place a cookie on your browser.

If you follow a link from this site to one of our individual property websites, to a map or to a review page, that destination sets its own cookies under its own policy, which we do not control.

4. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

If your browser sends a Do Not Track header or a Global Privacy Control signal, we honour it. We never sell or share personal information for advertising. Clarity and Google Analytics are used to understand how the site is used, not to build advertising profiles.

5. Managing this yourself

Every browser can block or delete cookies and clear stored site data, usually under privacy or site settings. You can also simply switch any accessibility preference back to its default.

6. Changes and contact

If this site ever starts using cookies or analytics, this page will be updated before that happens rather than afterwards, and the effective date above will change with it.

Questions about this policy: newleafmotels@gmail.com, or use the details on our contact page. See also our privacy policy and terms of service.