Cookie Policy
Last updated: 29 October 2026
1. About cookies
The Secret Spa NI uses cookies on thesecretspani.com to make the website work, to remember your choices and, with your permission, to understand how visitors use it.
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies, such as pixels and local storage, work in the same way and are covered by this policy.
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and UK GDPR, we may set strictly necessary cookies without asking. All other cookies are only set once you have agreed to them through our cookie banner.
This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your personal information more generally.
2. The cookies we use
We group our cookies into four categories. Only strictly necessary cookies are set without your consent.
• Strictly necessary: keep the website secure, run bookings and remember your cookie choices. The site cannot work properly without them.
• Functional: remember preferences, such as items in a basket or forms you have started.
• Analytics: tell us how many people visit, which pages they view and how they found us, so we can improve the site.
• Marketing: help us show relevant adverts on social media and measure how well they work.
Cookies currently used on this website:
• svSession (Wix, strictly necessary): identifies unique visitors and tracks sessions – 2 years.
• XSRF-TOKEN (Wix, strictly necessary): security, prevents forged requests – session.
• hs (Wix, strictly necessary): security – session.
• bSession (Wix, strictly necessary): measures system effectiveness – 30 minutes.
• consent-policy (Wix, strictly necessary): stores your cookie banner choices – 12 months.
• smSession (Wix, strictly necessary): identifies logged-in site members – session or 2 weeks.
• _ga, _ga_[ID] (Google Analytics, analytics): distinguishes visitors and measures site use – 2 years.
• _fbp (Meta/Facebook, marketing): measures and improves Facebook and Instagram adverts – 3 months.
3. Third-party cookies and embedded content
Some pages include content from other companies, such as Google Maps showing how to find us, Instagram or Facebook feeds, YouTube videos, and our online booking and payment tools.
These providers may set their own cookies when you view or interact with that content. We do not control these cookies, so please check each provider's own policy: Wix (wix.com/about/privacy), Google (policies.google.com/privacy), Meta (facebook.com/privacy/policies/cookies), and our payment providers Stripe, PayPal and Worldpay, which each publish their own privacy and cookie policies on their websites.
4. Managing your cookie choices
You can change your mind at any time.
• Our cookie banner: when you first visit, you can accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or choose by category. To change your choice later, click Cookie Settings at the bottom of any page.
• Your browser: most browsers let you view, block or delete cookies. Help pages are available for Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
• Opting out of analytics: you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on (tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).
If you block strictly necessary cookies, parts of the website, including online booking, may not work.
5. Changes to this policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when we add or remove tools from our website. The date at the top shows when it was last updated.
6. Contact us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact The Secret Spa NI, 84 Kildoag Road, Ardground, Killaloo, Derry~Londonderry BT47 3TH, Northern Ireland.
Email: thesecretspani@gmail.com · Telephone: 07835 057859
You can also contact the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.