Cookie Policy

1. What cookies and local storage are

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep and then sends back to that website with every subsequent request. Because it travels back to the server, a cookie can be used to recognise a returning browser — which is what makes cookies useful for logins and, less happily, for tracking.

Local storage is a different mechanism with a similar name. It is a small store inside your browser that a page can read and write, but it is never attached to a request and never sent anywhere on its own. A value in local storage only leaves your device if the page's own code deliberately transmits it. Ours does not.

2. The usual categories

Cookie notices normally sort storage into four categories. They are worth setting out, if only to show which ones are empty here:

• Strictly necessary — needed for the site to work at all: keeping you logged in, remembering a basket, protecting a form against cross-site request forgery. Consent is not required for these.
• Functional or preference — remember a choice you made, such as a language or a collapsed panel. Useful, but the site works without them.
• Analytics or performance — count visitors and measure how pages are used.
• Marketing or targeting — build a profile of your interests, usually across several sites, to select advertising.

This site uses nothing in the third and fourth categories. It sets no cookies in any category. It stores a single functional value in local storage, described below.

3. What this site actually stores

The table lists everything. There is no second table of third-party cookies, because there are no third parties: fonts, styles, scripts and images are all served from our own domain, and the site makes no requests to anyone else.

That is the complete list. The value is a short record of which panels are open. It contains no identifier, nothing about who you are and nothing about what you looked at, it is never sent to our server, and if you block it the footer simply opens in its default state.

4. Why there is no consent banner

Under the ePrivacy Directive — implemented in Norway by the Electronic Communications Act — consent is required before storing information on a user's device unless that storage is strictly necessary to provide the service the user asked for. The rule covers local storage as well as cookies; the mechanism does not matter, the purpose does.

We set nothing for analytics, advertising or profiling, and the one value we do store exists solely to render the interface you asked for. There is no consent to collect, so we do not interrupt you to collect it. A banner that asked permission for nothing would be theatre, and a banner that asked permission for nothing while claiming to protect your privacy would be worse than that.

5. How to manage storage in your browser

You can clear or block site data whenever you like. Doing so will not break this site; at worst the footer forgets which panels you collapsed.

• Chrome — Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies, and Settings → Privacy and security → Delete browsing data to clear what is already stored.
• Safari — Settings (macOS: Safari → Settings) → Privacy, where you can block all cookies and site data and use Manage Website Data to remove individual sites.
• Firefox — Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data, including Manage Data for a single site and the Standard, Strict and Custom protection levels.
• Edge — Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data.

Most browsers also offer a private or incognito window, which discards all site storage when you close it. If you would like to check what this site has stored, open your browser's developer tools and look under Local Storage for stillhavnresort.com; you will find the single entry named in the table above.

6. If this ever changes

We have no plans to add analytics. If that changes — or if any feature ever requires a cookie — then before anything non-essential is set we will publish an updated version of this policy, extend the table to list exactly what is stored and for how long, and show a consent banner that genuinely asks first and takes no for an answer.

We will not add tracking quietly and mention it later in a policy nobody was told had changed.

7. Questions

For anything about this policy or about storage on this site, write to [email protected]. How we handle the personal data you send us is set out in the Privacy Policy.