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A concise overview of essential storage, optional analytics and browser diagnostics used to improve the site.

Last Updated

October 4, 2026

Essential Cookies & Storage

Essential storage keeps the site running, remembers your cookie preference, and supports basic navigation and security behaviour.

Always active
Includes the Red Stag Studio consent preference stored in your browser
Stores the date of the homepage title animation as redstagstudio:home-title-day:v2 so it plays once per day; this contains no visitor identifier and is not sent to us
Does not require analytics consent

Google Analytics

If you accept analytics cookies, we use Google Analytics to understand aggregate site usage, useful pages, referral sources, and basic interaction events.

Optional and off by default until accepted
May include _ga and _ga_<container-id> cookies
Used for aggregate measurement, not to identify individual visitors

Vercel Web Analytics

If you allow analytics, Vercel Web Analytics measures page views without setting analytics cookies. Its script is not loaded before you opt in.

Optional and off by default
Processes page-view information without analytics cookies
Used to understand aggregate site usage

Sentry Diagnostics & Performance

With analytics permission, Sentry helps us diagnose browser errors and measure page-load, navigation and web-performance timings. It does not set analytics cookies; browser diagnostics are still optional and wait for your consent.

Off before analytics consent and on private billing and CRM pages
No session recordings, screenshots, form contents or user identifiers
Query strings, fragments, request bodies, cookies and headers are excluded
Server fault and request-timing diagnostics do not use browser storage and operate independently of this preference

Campaign Attribution

With analytics permission, session storage remembers first and latest campaign labels, landing and referring pages, and attribution times. We include this context if you send an enquiry; arbitrary URL query values and fragments are excluded.

Optional and off until analytics consent is given
Stored as redstagstudio:campaign-attribution:v1 and redstagstudio:acquisition:v1 for the tab session
Analytics information is removed when analytics consent is withdrawn
Declining analytics does not prevent an enquiry or an optional self-reported source

YouTube Video

Our website-cost and managed-website guides have YouTube videos. The previews are hosted on our site; a YouTube player loads only after you choose to play a video. YouTube may then use cookies and receive information about your visit, regardless of your analytics choice here.

The video preview does not contact YouTube
Pressing play loads the privacy-enhanced YouTube player
You can use either page without playing a video

Advertising Attribution

With advertising permission, session storage preserves Google Ads click IDs (gclid, gbraid and wbraid) with an enquiry. If you also allow analytics, Google Analytics uses these identifiers and completed-enquiry events to measure campaigns in our linked Google Ads account. With both permissions, we may also use the stored click ID to report a qualified enquiry or first collected payment to Google Ads. Personalised advertising is disabled.

Optional
Stored in redstagstudio:acquisition:v1 for the tab session and removed on advertising withdrawal
Can be rejected without affecting core site use

Your Choices

You can change your cookie choices at any time through the Cookie settings control, or clear cookies and local storage through your browser settings.

Choose essential only, accept all, or save a custom preference
Withdrawing analytics consent reloads the page to stop analytics and browser-monitoring scripts
Existing analytics cookies may remain until they expire or you clear them
Browser-level blocking may affect how parts of the site behave

Manage your cookie preference

Analytics cookies are optional. You can reopen the preference panel here or from the footer and update your choice at any time.

Google explains how it uses information from sites and apps that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.