Cookie Policy (UK)

Last updated: 9 November 2026

1. About this policy

This policy explains cookies and similar technologies on BeScamAware, operated by Not Another Idea Ltd. It should be read with our Privacy Policy, which explains personal information, service providers, retention and your rights.

Our registered office is 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom. For questions about cookies or privacy, email privacy@notanotheridea.com.

2. Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small pieces of information a website can ask your browser to store and send back with later requests. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage and tracking pixels. These can support a feature or recognise activity across visits.

Downloading a page, font, image or search index into your browser’s normal cache is different from setting a tracking cookie. Our hosting infrastructure also receives technical request information needed to deliver the site; that processing is explained in our Privacy Policy.

3. What this website uses

The BeScamAware website code does not set cookies or use local storage or session storage. It does not load advertising trackers, analytics scripts, social-media embeds or externally hosted fonts. There are no visitor accounts, shopping carts or advertising profiles.

Our website features work as follows:

• Search and filters: run in your browser using site content. Search terms and filter or page selections can appear in the URL and browser history. They are not saved in a cookie or sent to an external search provider.
• Quizzes and activities: keep answers, selections and scores on the current page, without storing them in cookies or browser storage or sending the results to us.
• Contact and story forms: send the information you choose to submit to our scripts service for email delivery. They do not create a login or browser session cookie or save a draft in browser storage.
• Newsletter signup: sends your email address to our scripts service, which requests a Brevo confirmation email. The website does not load Brevo tracking scripts or set newsletter cookies.
• Spam and duplicate protection: uses private server-side hashed records, rather than browser cookies. These records are not used to follow browsing activity.

No non-essential cookie choice is required for these features, so this version of the site has no cookie-consent pop-up.

4. Hosting and previously stored cookies

The static website is hosted using AWS S3 and delivered through Amazon CloudFront. Hosting and delivery infrastructure receives the IP address, requested URL and other request information needed to serve and protect the site. Ordinary browser caching and server-side request logs do not create an advertising or analytics profile in our website code.

If you previously visited the older version of BeScamAware, cookies or browser-storage entries from that version may remain until they expire or you remove them. This rebuilt website does not read or rely on those old entries.

You can use your browser’s site-data or privacy settings to inspect and remove stored information for bescamaware.org and its subdomains. Disabling cookies should not prevent the website features described above from working. Blocking JavaScript does limit interactive search, quizzes and form submission; it is separate from a cookie choice.

5. Emails and external websites

Email confirmation and unsubscribe links record the subscription choice you make. Our Brevo signup requests no individual open or click tracking for the confirmation message; operational email records and aggregate statistics are separate from cookies on this website. See our Privacy Policy for newsletter information.

Links to external websites, including reporting services and email-provider pages, may lead to services with their own cookies and privacy policies. Their use of cookies is controlled by those services rather than this website.

6. Future changes and your rights

If we introduce analytics, advertising, embedded services or another feature that uses cookies or similar technologies, we will update this policy and provide the information and choices required before activating any use that needs consent. A newsletter subscription or story-publication permission does not grant consent to optional browser tracking.

For information about your data protection rights, contact privacy@notanotheridea.com or read our Privacy Policy. You can also read the ICO’s guidance on cookies and similar technologies.