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This site uses Google Analytics, and only if you accept it. Nothing is stored on your device until you press Accept. This page explains what that sets, what else the site loads, and how to change your mind.

1. The short version

This site uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are useful. Analytics cookies are not strictly necessary, so the law requires us to ask before setting them. Until you press Accept, nothing is stored on your device and Google receives no identifier for you.

We do not run advertising or advertising cookies, we do not sell data, and we do not build a marketing profile of you from your visit. If you press Reject you can still read every page on the site.

2. What cookies are

Cookies are small files a website stores on your device so it can recognise you on a later page or a later visit. Related technologies, such as local storage, work in a similar way. Most sites use them for logins, shopping baskets, preferences or analytics. This site uses them for one thing: analytics, and only with your consent. Your yes-or-no answer itself is remembered in local storage so we do not ask again on every page.

3. What we actually load

Three things on this site involve another company. Only the first sets cookies, and only if you accept.

Google Analytics

If you accept, Google Analytics 4 sets a _ga cookie and a _ga_* cookie on your device, both first-party, to tell a returning visit from a new one and to group page views into a session. They last up to two years. We use it to see which pages people read and which of our guides and tools are worth writing more of. IP addresses are truncated by Google before storage and we have not enabled advertising features, Google Signals or data sharing. If you press Reject, the tag still loads but is held in a consent-denied state: no cookies are written and no identifier is sent.

Web fonts

The typeface is served from this site rather than from Google Fonts, so no third party sees your IP address when a page loads its fonts. Nothing about the fonts sets a cookie.

Hosting

The site is hosted by Netlify. Their servers log standard technical information, such as IP address and browser type, to deliver pages and protect against abuse. No cookie is set for this.

The enquiry and sign-up forms

Every form on this site is handled by Netlify Forms, part of the hosting described above, which records your submission and passes it to us. A copy of your name, email address and message is also added to our contact records so we can respond and keep track of your enquiry. Netlify Forms sets no cookie, and neither does the anti-spam check, which is a hidden field rather than a puzzle or a tracker. Each submission records which page of this site you sent it from, so we can tell which of our guides and tools are useful. That is a page address, not a profile of you, and it exists only on the submission you chose to send. What we do with the details you send is set out in our Privacy policy.

Until 1 September 2026 these forms were delivered by a third party called FormSubmit, whose anti-spam check could set its own cookies at the point of sending. That is no longer the case — the forms themselves set no cookies.

4. Links away from this site

Some links take you to other websites, such as WhatsApp, AD Solicitors or the other Buzz businesses. Once you follow a link, that site's own cookie and privacy rules apply, not ours.

5. Controlling cookies

The banner appears on your first visit and nothing is set until you answer it. To change your mind afterwards, clear this site's data in your browser and the banner will ask again — in Chrome and Edge that is the padlock in the address bar, then Cookies and site data; in Safari it is Settings, Privacy, Manage Website Data.

Every major browser also lets you block or delete cookies generally in its settings, and most offer a private browsing mode. Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics on every site at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

6. If this changes

If we add any further non-essential cookie we will ask for your consent before it loads and update this page first. The date below tells you when this page was last checked against what the site actually does.

Last reviewed: 2 September 2026.

7. Questions

Email hello@buzzaccounting.co.uk. If you are not happy with our answer, our complaints procedure explains what to do next, and you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Who does what

Buzz Legal handles contracts, terms of trade, employment paperwork and dispute preparation. Court work, and the other activities reserved by law, are carried out by AD Solicitors, authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (no. 8011228) — and you are told which yours is before you spend anything. How this works, in full. This site is information rather than advice on your situation.

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