Cookie Policy
Eric Dowsett – Last updated: 18.09.2026
1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains which cookies and similar technologies are used on www.dowsettapproach.com, what they are used for, and how you can control them. Cookies that are not strictly necessary are placed only after you have given your consent. Your consent is requested and recorded through CookieHub, the consent management platform used on this website.
2. What are cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device. This website also uses comparable techniques such as local storage, pixels and tracking parameters in links. In this policy all of these are referred to as cookies. Cookies can be placed by this website itself (first party) or by an external service used on a page, for example an embedded video player or an advertising platform (third party).
3. Your choice
The first time you visit this website a cookie banner is shown. You can:
- accept all cookies,
- refuse all cookies that are not strictly necessary, or
- decide per category in the settings screen.
Until you make a choice, statistics and marketing cookies are blocked and Google’s services run in a restricted mode in which no identifying cookies are stored. Your choice is stored for 365 days in the cookiehub cookie, together with a consent record that includes the date, the time and the categories you accepted. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time through cookie settings.
4. Categories used on this website
Strictly necessary
Needed to make the website work, and placed without consent: the consent cookie (cookiehub), the WordPress session and login cookies, the WooCommerce shopping cart and checkout cookies, the fraud prevention cookies of the payment providers (WooPayments/Stripe and PayPal, such as __stripe_mid and __ssid), and Google reCAPTCHA, which protects the forms against spam.
Preferences
Remember choices you make on the website, such as display settings.
Statistics
Help us understand how the website is used. Used here: Google Analytics 4 (cookies _ga and _ga_MBJ4F5JXK0), Jetpack and WooCommerce Analytics from Automattic (cookies starting with tk_), and the WooCommerce order attribution script (cookies starting with sbjs_).
Marketing
Used to measure and improve advertising campaigns and to show relevant content. Used here: Google Ads (cookies _gcl_au and _gcl_aw, and the gclid, gbraid and wbraid parameters in advertising links), Constant Contact (cookie ctct_woo_campaign_id), and cookies placed by embedded video players such as YouTube.
5. Third party services
The following external services can place cookies or receive data when you use this website:
- Google Analytics 4 and Google Ads – website statistics and measurement of advertising campaigns.
- Google reCAPTCHA and Google Fonts – spam protection on the forms, and web fonts.
- Constant Contact – the sign up form for the free video series and the newsletter.
- Jetpack and WooCommerce Analytics (Automattic) – visitor statistics, image delivery and shop statistics.
- WooPayments/Stripe and PayPal – payment processing and fraud prevention in the shop.
- YouTube and StreamingVideoProvider – embedded video players.
- CookieHub – the cookie banner and the record of your consent.
Each of these parties processes data under its own privacy policy. See also our Privacy Policy.
6. Consent signals to Google
This website uses Google Consent Mode v2. Before you make a choice, Google’s tags load in a restricted mode: no advertising or analytics cookies are stored and no identifiers are sent. Once you accept the statistics and/or the marketing category, the matching consent signals are passed on and measurement is switched on for those categories only.
7. Full list of cookies
The list below is generated automatically from a periodic scan of this website. It shows the cookies per category, with their purpose and storage period.
8. Managing cookies in your browser
Besides the cookie settings on this website you can manage cookies in your browser. Most browsers allow you to view stored cookies, delete them, and block them entirely or for specific websites. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of this website, such as the shop, from working.
9. Changes and contact
This Cookie Policy is updated whenever the website or the services used on it change. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised. Questions about this Cookie Policy: ernodo@ericdowsett.com
