Cookie Policy

What we store, and why

Last updated: 12 October 2026

What cookies are

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep. Some are needed for a site to function at all. Others measure how a site is used, or support advertising. This page lists every cookie Bamboo-Mat uses and what each one is for.

Your choice

Only strictly necessary cookies are set without asking. Analytics and marketing cookies are set only after you agree through our cookie banner.

If you decline, no analytics or advertising cookies are set and nothing is stored on your device. Google's tag manager still loads, and sends Google a limited, cookie-free signal — the address of the page, the time and your browser type. It carries no identifier for you and cannot be used to recognise you on a later visit or on another website.

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time.

Strictly necessary

These are always on. Without them the site cannot remember your choice or keep the booking form safe.

Cookie	Set by	Purpose	Lasts
`bm_consent`	Bamboo-Mat	Remembers your cookie choice so you are not asked on every page.	6 months
`bm_attribution` (session storage)	Bamboo-Mat	Remembers how you arrived on this visit — the page you landed on, the site that sent you and any campaign tags in the link — so a booking enquiry you send can tell our team where it came from. Kept in your browser, not as a cookie, and never sent anywhere unless you submit a form.	Until you close the tab
`__cf_bm`	Cloudflare	Distinguishes people from bots so the booking form is not abused. Set by our hosting provider.	30 minutes

Analytics — only with your consent

These tell us how many people visit, which pages they read and where they arrived from. We use them to improve the site.

We also use Microsoft Clarity, which goes further than counting: it records how pages are actually used — mouse movement, clicks and scrolling — and replays those sessions to us so we can find parts of the site that are confusing or broken. Recordings are not linked to your name or your booking, and Clarity masks text typed into form fields. What Microsoft collects is described in the Microsoft privacy statement.

Cookie	Set by	Purpose	Lasts
`_ga`	Google Analytics	Distinguishes one visitor from another so visits can be counted.	2 years
`_ga_<ID>`	Google Analytics	Keeps track of the current visit (session state).	2 years
`_clck`	Microsoft Clarity	Keeps a Clarity identifier so repeat visits can be recognised.	1 year
`_clsk`	Microsoft Clarity	Groups the pages you view into a single session recording.	1 day
`CLID`	Microsoft Clarity (clarity.ms)	Identifies the browser to Clarity.	1 year
`ANONCHK`, `MR`, `MUID`, `SM`, `SRM_B`	Microsoft (clarity.ms, bing.com)	Set by Microsoft's own analytics and advertising network, which Clarity is part of.	Session to 1 year

Marketing — only with your consent

These let us measure whether our advertising works, and show Bamboo-Mat to people who have already visited the site. They are set by Google and by Meta (Facebook and Instagram).

Cookie	Set by	Purpose	Lasts
`_gcl_au`	Google Ads	Measures which ad led to a booking enquiry (conversion tracking).	90 days
`bm_attribution` (local storage)	Bamboo-Mat	Keeps the same details, including advertising click identifiers such as Google’s `gclid`, so an enquiry you send on a later visit can still be credited to the ad that brought you. Kept in your browser and only sent to us with a booking enquiry. Removed if you withdraw consent.	90 days
`IDE`, `test_cookie`	Google (doubleclick.net)	Advertising measurement and remarketing.	Up to 13 months
`_fbp`	Meta pixel	Identifies browsers for advertising measurement and remarketing.	90 days
`fr`	Meta (facebook.com)	Delivers and measures advertising on Facebook and Instagram.	90 days

The booking widget

Table reservations are taken through SevenRooms, our booking provider, embedded on the reservations page. When that widget loads it may set its own cookies in order to run the booking and keep it secure. These are set by SevenRooms rather than by us, and are described in the SevenRooms privacy policy.

The widget appears only on the reservations page, and only because making a booking is what that page is for.

If you change your mind

When you withdraw consent, we stop the tools collecting anything further and we delete the cookies that were set on this website — including _ga, _gcl_au, _clck and _clsk.

Cookies set on Microsoft's and Google's own domains — such as MUID on clarity.ms or NID on google.com — can only be removed through your browser settings, because they do not belong to this website. The section below explains how.

Managing cookies in your browser

Beyond the settings on this site, every major browser lets you block or delete cookies directly — usually under Settings → Privacy. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of this site working.

Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge each document this in their own help pages.
Clearing your cookies also clears your consent choice, so the banner will appear again.

Changes to this policy

If we add or remove a tool that stores something on your device, we update this page and ask for your choice again. Your existing choice is not carried over to a different set of cookies.

Contact

Questions about this policy: reservation@bamboo-mat.co.uk.