This Cookie Policy provides a comprehensive technical and statutory disclosure of client-side storage technologies utilized on this website. It must be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy. This policy explains what this website stores on your device, what it deliberately refrains from storing, and how you may exercise full browser control.
1. Definitive summary: absolute absence of HTTP cookies
1.1 This website sets zero HTTP cookies on public visitors. It deploys no analytics cookies, no behavioral tracking cookies, no cross-site advertising beacons, and no third-party tracking pixels. Navigating this platform causes no cookie to be deposited on your device.
1.2 This website loads zero third-party assets on public pages. There are no external advertising networks, no social media widgets, no embedded external video players, no hosted mapping scripts, no third-party webfonts, and no tag management containers. Every font, style, script, and image is delivered directly from the canonical standinglawyers.com domain. Consequently, visiting this website discloses no browsing telemetry to external third parties.
1.3 Client-side persistence is restricted exclusively to two functional entries in your browser's local storage, detailed in Clause 3. These entries do not constitute cookies, are never transmitted automatically to our servers, and reside exclusively on your client device.
2. Technical distinction between cookies and local storage
2.1 An HTTP cookie is an alphanumeric data file that a web server instructs a client browser to store, which the browser automatically transmits back to the server with every subsequent HTTP request. Because cookies travel with network traffic, they facilitate cross-page tracking and user profiling.
2.2 Browser local storage functions fundamentally differently. It constitutes an isolated key-value storage sandbox accessible only by client-side JavaScript executing on the origin domain. Data held in local storage is never automatically transmitted to the server in HTTP headers. The entries created by this platform remain confined to your client device.
3. Exhaustive inventory of local storage entries
3.1 The website utilizes exclusively the following two functional local storage keys:
| Key Identifier | Recorded Data | Operational Purpose | Retention Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| sl-disclaimer-ack-v1 | Records the affirmative boolean acknowledgement of the regulatory notice | Prevents redundant re-rendering of the mandatory Bar Council regulatory notice across sequential page visits | Persists until client storage is purged, or until the regulatory version suffix is incremented upon material policy revision |
| sl-cookie-consent | Records consent preference regarding optional telemetry, formatted as "accepted" or "declined" | Records user choice to prevent repeated consent prompts. Defaulted to declined; created only upon affirmative user selection | Persists until client storage is cleared manually through browser settings |
3.2 Neither key contains personal data, email addresses, device serial numbers, or browsing histories. Neither key is transmitted across network requests to our servers.
3.3 Where a browser operates in private browsing mode or blocks web storage, the website functions smoothly. The regulatory disclaimer will simply be displayed upon each visit, which satisfies regulatory compliance.
4. Absence of public analytics telemetry
4.1 This platform operates without active third-party analytics telemetry. No client-side scripts record visitor identities, heatmaps, or session replays.
4.2 In the event that privacy-preserving telemetry is introduced in the future, this policy and the Privacy Policy shall be amended prior to implementation.
5. Status of optional analytics toggle
5.1 The introductory modal includes an independent, unselected toggle for optional analytics. Access to the website is wholly unrestricted whether this toggle is accepted or declined.
5.2 As of the operative date, no third-party analytics scripts are configured or executed in production. Even where a user affirmatively selects the toggle, no third-party script is executed and no external connection is initialized.
5.3 If analytics integration occurs in future iterations, tracking scripts will execute solely following express affirmative opt-in, never prior to consent.
6. Complete user control and cache erasure
6.1 Users may purge local storage at any time via browser settings under Privacy and Site Data. Purging storage resets both functional keys, causing the regulatory notice to re-render upon the next visit.
6.2 Browsers may be configured to block cookies and site storage globally or for this specific domain without impairing informational access.
7. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control compliance
7.1 Because this website deploys no commercial tracking mechanisms, Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals are honored natively. The firm sells no personal data and engages in no cross-contextual behavioral advertising.
8. Administrative session cookie disclosure
8.1 The restricted administrative portal of this website, accessible solely to authorised firm personnel via Google Firebase Authentication, utilizes a single strictly necessary session token. This cookie is never set for public visitors, is accessible solely on the administrative sub-path, and is purged immediately upon session termination.
Effect, review and contact
A This Cookie Policy takes effect on 11 October 2026 and supersedes every earlier version published on this website. The version published on this page constitutes the operative regulatory instrument at any given point in time.
B Standing Lawyers reviews this Cookie Policy at least annually, and forthwith upon any amendment to applicable statutes, subordinate rules, regulatory notifications, or firm operational systems. Where an amendment is material, formal notice shall be published on this page, and where the amendment concerns personal data in respect of which contact particulars are maintained, direct notification shall be transmitted.
C All formal communications, statutory notices, and grievances arising out of or in connection with this Cookie Policy must be addressed to work@standinglawyers.com, marked for the attention of the Grievance Officer where the communication constitutes a formal complaint.
