Cookie policy

Cookies and browser storage

Cookies store small pieces of information in your browser. Local and session storage can also keep information on your device.

Ruth uses essential authentication storage to keep business accounts and authorised administrators signed in. This differs from the corporate website, where only administrators sign in. Navigation may use session storage to remember scroll positions. Clearing or blocking sign-in storage can sign you out.

Hosting and security

Lovable hosting and Cloudflare may set essential delivery or security cookies. The names, purposes and lifetimes of cookies on the eventual public directory must be checked before launch; the corporate site's cookie inventory is not evidence of Ruth's public deployment.

External services

Ruth currently loads typefaces from Google Fonts and service-area map tiles from OpenStreetMap. Those requests disclose connection information to the respective providers. Town/postcode lookups use postcodes.io. External booking services, websites and social links have their own privacy and cookie policies.

Analytics and consent

The directory records limited server-side search and usage information to operate the service and identify coverage gaps. This is distinct from browser tracking. No advertising-cookie system has been added. Before launch, check all cookies, browser storage and external resources and obtain any consent required by law before optional technologies are used.

You can manage cookies and storage through your browser settings. Blocking essential storage may prevent account access.

Checks outstanding before launch

The following have not yet been completed and are listed so they are not assumed:

• An inventory of the actual cookies and browser storage set on the deployed directory, including names, purposes and lifetimes.
• Classifying each technology as essential or optional.
• Google Fonts and OpenStreetMap: what connection data they receive, and whether self-hosting or consent is needed.
• postcodes.io: what request data the service receives and keeps.
• Hosting (Lovable, Cloudflare) and the AI provider: confirmed retention, data locations and international-transfer safeguards.
• Whether any consent banner or controls are legally required.

Source reviewed

This draft was prepared after reviewing the published Berr Group Cookie Policy on 26 October 2026, adapted for Ruth rather than copied as a claim about its deployment.