Cookie Policy
Last updated: 25th June 2026
1. INTRODUCTION
This Cookie Policy explains how Barber London Design Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 14715894, trading as Furniture Visualizer ("Furniture Visualizer", "we", "us", or "our") utilises cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website or use our digital canvas application (the "Service"). This document must be read directly alongside our Privacy Policy (which details the specific lawful bases governing each cookie category) and our overarching Terms and Conditions.
2. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, to make them operate more efficiently, and to provide analytical or operational information to the owners of the site. Similar tracking technologies, such as local storage, pixels, and software development kits (SDKs), perform comparable functions; where we refer to "cookies" in this policy, we mean cookies and all such equivalent technologies.
Cookies can be grouped by their operational lifecycle:
- Session Cookies: These are temporary tracking files that expire and are automatically cleared from your device once you close your web browser.
- Persistent Cookies: These remain stored on your device for a pre-determined period or until you choose to manually delete them.
Cookies can also be grouped by the domain that deploys them:
- First-Party Cookies: Set directly by us, operating on our own primary domain.
- Third-Party Cookies: Set by separate third-party service providers that we engage to operate the Service securely and efficiently.
3. HOW WE CATEGORISE COOKIES
We group cookies into four distinct functional categories, ensuring perfect symmetry with the data taxonomy defined within our Privacy Policy:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: Required to operate the core infrastructure of the Service safely and correctly. These technologies manage your authenticated user login sessions, protect data forms, secure payment transactions against fraud, and defend our digital canvas against automated bot abuse. Because the platform cannot function safely without these underlying mechanisms, you cannot deactivate them within our systems. We rely on these cookies on the explicit legal basis that they are strictly essential to deliver the Service you have requested.
- Functional Cookies: Utilised to remember personal choices you make to provide an enhanced user experience, including your specific Profile and Workspace Settings. These cookies are non-essential, meaning we will only ever deploy them on your device with your explicit consent.
- Analytics Cookies: Utilised to monitor aggregated interaction metrics, identify feature popularity trends, and isolate platform errors so that we can systematically optimise the Service. The datasets captured by these cookies are aggregated and de-identified, meaning they do not directly identify you. These are non-essential and require your explicit consent before activation.
- Marketing Cookies: Utilised to track the real-time conversion rates of our external advertising campaigns and to optimise the delivery of promotional content tailored to your design preferences. These are non-essential and are only deployed following your explicit consent.
4. THE COOKIES WE USE
To ensure absolute transparency for our users and external compliance auditors, the table below details the exact tracking technologies deployed across our domain. To respect the privacy of our internal systems, we name only the specific tracking elements visible within your web browser, completely omitting internal or server-side tools that do not place files on your local device.
Stripe Integration & Data Boundary: The sensitive data entry and transaction processing components of your payment take place securely on Stripe's own hosted infrastructure. However, Stripe's advanced fraud-prevention script runs directly on our local checkout pages and deploys the essential device identifiers (__stripe_mid and __stripe_sid) listed in the matrix below to protect our ecosystem from card exploits.
4.1 Strictly necessary cookies
These tracking elements are fundamentally required to maintain platform stability, enforce user security, and secure transaction workflows. They are permanently active and cannot be deselected within our interface.
| Cookie name / technology | Provider | Purpose | Duration | First / third party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __session | Furniture Visualizer (Firebase) | Keeps you securely signed in to your account as you navigate between different canvas tools, eliminating the need to re-authenticate on every page. | five (5) days | First party |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare | Site-wide bot management, rate-limiting, and reverse-proxy security layer that actively shields our entire domain from automated scraping and malicious traffic abuse. | thirty (30) minutes | First party |
| __stripe_mid | Stripe | Collects hardware telemetry and a persistent device identifier on checkout interfaces to proactively flag, monitor, and mitigate fraudulent card transactions. | one (1) year | First party |
| __stripe_sid | Stripe | Collects real-time session telemetry on checkout elements to monitor transactional security patterns and combat automated card-testing exploits. | thirty (30) minutes | First party |
4.2 Functional cookies
We do not currently set any functional cookies across the Service. If we introduce them in future updates to remember specific toolbar layouts, they will be strictly blocked by default and listed here upon activation, requiring your prior consent.
4.3 Analytics cookies
We utilise Google Analytics 4 to monitor platform performance and track aggregated feature engagement trends across our domain. These analytics cookies are non-essential and remain blocked by default, firing only after you grant explicit opt-in consent via our consent banner. All data gathered through this service is compiled in an aggregated, de-identified format, ensuring that it does not directly identify you.
| Cookie name / technology | Provider | Purpose | Duration | First / third party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Distinguishes unique visitors from one another by generating an anonymous client identifier to support aggregated usage measurement and platform performance analysis. | 2 years | First party | |
| _ga_K1YJX3XMR2 | Persists per-visit session state to enable Google Analytics 4 to collect, group, and process aggregated analytics data for our specific digital property. | 2 years | First party |
4.4 Marketing cookies
We do not currently deploy marketing cookies or advertising measurement pixels. If we introduce promotional tracking systems in the future to measure external campaign conversions, they will be disabled by default and will require affirmative consent before firing.
5. YOUR CONSENT AND HOW TO CHANGE IT
We are committed to giving you clear, granular control over the tracking technologies deployed on your device. Because the Service strictly blocks all non-essential tracking by default, your data is insulated from analytics and marketing scripts until you explicitly choose to allow them.
5.1 The cookie consent architecture
When you access the Service for the first time, a consent banner will be presented to you. This banner provides an active mechanism to manage your privacy choices via three options:
- Accept All: Grants permission for our platform to activate all functional, analytics, and marketing tracking technologies.
- Reject Non-Essential: Completely blocks all functional, analytics, and marketing cookies, ensuring that only our strictly necessary technical cookies remain active. Choosing to reject these tracking layers is structurally just as simple and fast as accepting them.
- Manage Preferences: Takes you directly to the expandable "Manage Cookie Preferences" panel at the foot of our Cookie Policy page. It lets you toggle consent on or off for individual categories (Functional, Analytics, Marketing) before any scripts are executed.
Strictly necessary cookies do not require your consent under UK law, as our digital canvas and authentication infrastructure cannot safely operate without them.
5.2 Revoking or modifying your consent
You can manage your cookie choices using the expandable panel titled "Manage Cookie Preferences" at the bottom of this page. On your first visit, the consent banner links directly to this panel. You can return to this page at any time via the main menu.
Changes take effect immediately. Your selections are stored in your browser, meaning they apply only to the specific browser and device you are currently using. Clearing your browser data, or accessing the site from a different browser or device, will cause the consent banner to display again. If we make material changes to the cookies we use, the website will prompt you to confirm your choices again on your next visit.
6. CONTROLLING COOKIES IN YOUR BROWSER
In addition to the expandable "Manage Cookie Preferences" panel at the foot of our Cookie Policy page (linked from our consent banner and accessible at any time via the main menu), most modern web browsers allow you to view, manage, and erase cookies directly through their native security settings.
The specific configuration steps differ depending on the browser application you utilise:
- Google Chrome: Accessible via Settings > Privacy and security > Third-party cookies.
- Microsoft Edge: Accessible via Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Cookies and data stored.
- Mozilla Firefox: Accessible via Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.
- Apple Safari: Accessible via Settings > Privacy > Advanced > Website Data.
To access a comprehensive, independent guide detailing how to audit, manage, or delete cookies across various browser environments, you may visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Please Note: If you deploy high-level browser restrictions or privacy extensions that completely block our strictly necessary cookies, critical elements of the Service, including secure user login sessions, Stripe transactional processing, and real-time image generation engines, will fail to function.
7. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example when we introduce new analytical tools or infrastructure providers. Any modifications will be posted directly on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date displayed at the top of the document. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay fully informed about how we utilise cookies and maintain your digital privacy.