Cookies

A plain account of the files this site stores

Restaurant Palette runs a website at restaurantpalette.com. This page explains what a cookie is, which kinds this site does and does not use, what happens the first time you visit, and what to do if you want to change your answer or clear things out entirely.

It is written to be read once and understood. Nothing on this page is a condition of booking a table, of asking us a question, or of dining with us, and nothing here limits any right you have under Australian privacy law.

If you take only one thing from the page, take this: this website sets no advertising cookies and no analytics cookies, and the only record of your cookie choice is a single value held by your own browser rather than by the site.

What a cookie actually is

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. When the site sends a page, it can include a short instruction with the file's name, a value and a lifetime. Your browser keeps that file and, depending on how it is set up, sends it back with later requests to the same site. Cookies are how a website recognises that two page views came from the same browser. They cannot run programs, and they cannot read other files on your device.

Cookies come in two broad kinds. A session cookie is temporary: your browser discards it when you close the window or quit the browser, so it lasts only as long as one visit. A persistent cookie carries an expiry date and stays on your device until that date passes or until you delete it, which is why a site can remember a setting between visits. Neither kind is unusual, and neither is harmful in itself — what matters is who set it, what it records and whether you agreed to it.

There are also related technologies that work in a similar way without being cookies. Your browser's local storage is one of them: the site can ask the browser to hold a value under a named key, and that value stays until it is cleared. Local storage is not sent to the server with each request in the way a cookie is. This site uses local storage for exactly one thing, described further down this page.

The four categories, and which ones this site uses

Cookie policies usually sort cookies into four groups: necessary, functional, analytics and marketing. Here is where this site stands on each of them, stated plainly rather than left for you to guess.

**Necessary.** A necessary cookie is one the site cannot work properly without. This site runs on WordPress. WordPress sets cookies of its own only for people who log in to the administration area or who leave a comment. If you do neither of those things, WordPress gives you no cookie at all. Ordinary visitors reading pages, browsing the menu or sending an enquiry through a form are not issued one.

**Functional.** Functional cookies remember a choice you have made — a language, a region, a layout preference — so you do not have to make it twice. This site does not set any. Your cookie choice is kept in local storage rather than in a cookie, and there are no other remembered preferences to store.

**Analytics.** Analytics cookies record how people move through a site: which pages are visited, how long someone stays, where they arrived from. This site loads no analytics script of any kind. Every stylesheet, script and image you receive from restaurantpalette.com is served by the site itself, so no measurement tool is watching the session.

**Marketing.** Marketing cookies follow a visitor across sites so that advertising can be targeted or measured. This site sets none, and it carries no advertising script and no third-party tracking script. There is no pixel, no tag manager and no embedded widget reporting back to anyone.

The banner you see on a first visit

A first-time visitor is shown a short banner with two buttons: Accept and Reject. There is no third option, no slider and no list of switches, because there is nothing on this site that needs granular permission.

Both buttons do the same two things and nothing else. Whichever you press, your choice is recorded and the banner closes. Nothing is loaded as a result, nothing is unlocked, and nothing is blocked. Accept and Reject currently produce the same experience of the site, down to the last page. The answer is recorded because anything added to the website later should be able to respect a decision you have already made, and it would be wrong to ask you again in that case.

Your answer is not stored in a cookie. It is a single value kept in your browser's own local storage, under a key belonging to this site, holding either "accepted" or "rejected". Because it lives there rather than in a cookie, that value is never sent to the server, it does not travel with your requests, and it is not shared with any other site. It sits in your browser and stays there until you clear it.

How to change your answer

If you want to change the choice you made, clear this site's data in your browser, using the same settings described in the next section. Clearing the stored data removes the recorded answer, and the banner will appear again the next time you visit, ready for a fresh decision.

There is no cookie settings panel on this site and no link that reopens the banner, so the browser is genuinely the place to go. That is not a workaround; it follows from where the answer is kept. A value in your own browser's local storage is yours to delete whenever you like, and nothing on the server needs to be told.

Managing cookies in your browser

Every major browser lets you see what is stored, delete it, and decide what it will accept in future. The controls live in the browser's own settings, usually in a privacy, security or data section, and the exact wording shifts a little between versions.

**Chrome.** Open the browser's settings and look for the privacy and security area, where site data and cookies are listed and can be cleared individually or all at once.

**Firefox.** The privacy and security settings hold the cookie controls, including a list of stored data you can search through by site name.

**Safari.** Cookie and website data controls sit in the browser's preferences, under the privacy heading, with a manage option that lists what each site has stored.

**Edge.** Settings include a cookies and site permissions area where stored data can be reviewed and removed per site.

Clearing cookies for this site also clears the stored answer to the banner. Clearing them for every site at once will sign you out of other services and reset preferences elsewhere, so it is worth being selective if you only want to deal with one site.

Questions people ask about this

**Do I have to accept anything to use the site?** No. Reject works exactly as well as Accept, and neither changes what you see. You can read every page, look through the menu and send an enquiry without pressing either button.

**Will you know which button I pressed?** Not from the stored value, because it never leaves your browser. The choice is recorded locally so the banner does not keep appearing.

**Does the site work if I block all cookies?** Yes. Blocking cookies does not affect the pages, since nothing here depends on one. It would affect logging in to the administration area, which is not something ordinary visitors do.

**Is my visit being measured in some other way?** Not by this site. There is no analytics tool, no advertising tag and no third-party script of any kind on the pages you are reading.

**What about when I send an enquiry?** That is separate from cookies. The privacy policy at /privacy/ sets out what happens to the details you send.

Who to contact about this page

If something here is unclear, or you think this page does not match what your browser is doing, get in touch and we will look at it properly. Questions about cookies and tracking are welcome, and so are questions about the wider privacy policy.

The easiest route is the contact page at /contact/, which is monitored for enquiries of this kind. You can also email [email protected] or call +61 433 658 077 during opening hours.

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