Last updated: 27 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how BrightNest uses cookies and similar browser technologies on https://1242.neurogena.net. It is written for people visiting the website from the United Kingdom. BrightNest is a non-commercial household cleaning information website. This page explains the technology currently in use, the choices available to visitors, and the limits of those choices.
1. What cookies and similar technologies are
Cookies are small text files that a website may ask a browser to store on a device. Similar technologies can store or read information through browser storage rather than through a file called a cookie. These technologies can help a website remember a setting, recognise a browser during a visit, or understand how pages are used.
Depending on the technology and its purpose, information stored or accessed may include a preference, a choice made in a notice, device or browser settings, and technical identifiers. Such information can sometimes be personal data when it can be linked, directly or indirectly, to an identifiable person. It is therefore important to distinguish between technologies that are necessary to make a website function as requested and optional technologies used for measurement, personalisation, advertising, or social-media activity.
2. Why BrightNest uses browser storage
BrightNest currently uses one necessary browser-storage item to remember the cookie choice made through the site’s consent manager. Remembering that choice prevents the same consent prompt from appearing repeatedly and helps the website apply a visitor’s decision, including a decision to reject optional technologies.
The storage item is not used to analyse readership, build a profile, deliver advertising, track activity across websites, or connect visitors with social-media platforms. No optional analytics, performance, functional, advertising, targeting, or social-media scripts are currently active on the website.
3. Technology categories and current status
Browser technologies are commonly grouped by purpose. The categories below explain what each category generally means and whether it is currently used on BrightNest.
- Strictly necessary: used to provide a function requested by the visitor or to remember a privacy choice. Currently used: yes, solely for the consent-preference record described in this policy.
- Functional: used to remember optional features or personalised settings beyond what is necessary for the site to operate. Currently used: no.
- Analytics and performance: used to measure visits, page use, errors, or audience behaviour. Currently used: no.
- Advertising and targeting: used to select advertising, measure campaigns, create marketing profiles, or follow activity across sites. Currently used: no.
- Social media: used by social platforms to provide embedded features, sharing tools, or tracking. Currently used: no.
If an optional category is introduced in the future, it should not be activated through this website before visitors have been given clear information and, where required, a genuine opt-in choice. This policy will be updated to describe any supported technology before or when the change is made available.
4. The browser-storage item currently used
The following table lists the only browser-storage item supported by the current site information. It is first-party storage, meaning it is set and read by BrightNest in the visitor’s browser rather than supplied by an external provider.
| Name | Type and party | Purpose | Information handled | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ng-cookie-consent-v1 | Browser local storage; first party | Records the visitor’s cookie-consent choice so that the consent manager can remember and apply it. | A consent preference or choice. | Persistent until the visitor clears browser storage. |
Local storage is similar to a cookie in that it can retain information in a browser, but it is technically a separate browser-storage mechanism. The key ng-cookie-consent-v1 is not a session item: it remains in the browser after a browsing session ends unless browser storage is cleared. The website does not specify a separate fixed expiry date for it. Its meaningful retention period is therefore until the visitor removes browser storage, uses browser controls that remove it, or changes the stored choice through the site’s settings control.
5. First-party, third-party, session and persistent storage
First-party technologies are set by the website a person is visiting. Third-party technologies are set or accessed by another organisation, often through an embedded tool, measurement service, advertising network, or social-media feature. BrightNest currently uses the first-party local-storage key shown above and does not list any third-party cookie or storage provider.
Session technologies are normally removed when a browser session closes. Persistent technologies remain for a longer period, subject to their settings or browser controls. The consent-preference key used here is persistent because it is intended to retain the visitor’s choice until browser storage is cleared. No session cookie, third-party cookie, or optional persistent tracking technology is identified as active in the current site configuration.
6. UK rules and the basis for using this technology
In the United Kingdom, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) govern the storing of information on, and access to information from, a person’s device in many circumstances. PECR generally requires clear information and consent before non-essential cookies or similar technologies are set or read. The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 may also apply where information handled through these technologies is personal data.
The consent-preference storage described in this policy is used only to remember and honour a choice made in the consent manager. It is treated as strictly necessary for that requested preference-management function. The purpose is not to obtain agreement for optional tracking by default; rather, it records the visitor’s response and allows the site to respect it. No optional category is currently active, so there is no analytics, advertising, social-media, or optional functional technology for which this website is presently seeking opt-in consent.
Where information associated with a browser preference is personal data, BrightNest should handle it in line with the UK GDPR principles, including transparency, purpose limitation, data minimisation, security, and appropriate retention. This policy explains the present arrangement but does not itself guarantee legal compliance in every individual circumstance.
7. How the consent manager works
When the consent manager is shown, visitors can make a choice using equally accessible Accept and Reject controls. A visitor can also use Manage choices to review the available options. The controls are designed so that rejecting optional technologies is not harder than accepting them.
At present, the only stored record is the necessary preference key that remembers the choice. Because optional categories are not active, accepting does not activate analytics, advertising, targeting, social-media, or optional functional scripts. Rejecting confirms that optional technologies should not be used. The manager’s role is to communicate and preserve the visitor’s selection.
Visitors can reopen Cookie settings at any time by using the fixed button at the lower left of the website. This allows a choice to be reviewed, updated, or withdrawn as easily as it was made. Updating or withdrawing a choice affects future use of optional technologies if such technologies are ever introduced; it does not retrospectively alter information already handled before a setting was changed.
8. Browser controls and the effects of clearing storage
Most browsers provide controls to view, remove, limit, or block cookies and local storage. These controls are usually found in the browser’s privacy, site-data, or settings areas. Visitors may also use private browsing modes, although the exact behaviour depends on the browser and device.
If browser storage is cleared or blocked, BrightNest may no longer be able to remember the consent choice. The consent manager may therefore appear again on a later visit so that a fresh choice can be made. Blocking or deleting browser storage does not create optional tracking on this website; it may simply remove the record that tells the site which choice was previously selected.
9. International transfers and related privacy information
No third-party cookie, analytics, advertising, social-media, or other optional provider is identified in the current website information. Accordingly, this Cookie Policy does not identify an international transfer caused by the browser-storage item listed above. If a future change introduces a provider or processing arrangement that involves personal data being transferred outside the United Kingdom, the relevant information, safeguards, and visitor choices should be described before or when that technology is used.
For broader information about how personal data may be handled outside the cookie context, please read the Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy and this Cookie Policy should be read together where both apply. This page focuses specifically on cookies, local storage, and related device technologies.
10. Changes to this Cookie Policy
BrightNest may revise this Cookie Policy when the site’s use of browser technologies changes, when the consent manager changes, or when the legal information needs clarification. The date near the beginning of this page shows when this policy was last updated. Visitors are encouraged to review this page from time to time, especially after a change to Cookie settings or a change in the technologies described on the site.
11. Questions about this policy
For questions about this Cookie Policy or the consent choices available on https://1242.neurogena.net, contact BrightNest by phone at +44 7523 747363 or write to London, United Kingdom. When getting in touch, please describe the cookie or settings issue clearly so it can be understood in context.