Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy is issued by CRADERO LIMITED. It explains cookies and similar technologies on cradero.technology. Read it with the Privacy Policy. Contact: admin@cradero.technology, +44 7411 525634, 25 Belhaven Park, Muirhead, Glasgow, Scotland, G69 9FA.
1. Who we are and what this Cookie Policy covers
This Cookie Policy explains how CRADERO LIMITED uses cookies and similar technologies on https://cradero.technology. The Company is established in Scotland, United Kingdom, at 25 Belhaven Park, Muirhead, Glasgow, Scotland, G69 9FA. Questions should be sent to admin@cradero.technology or raised by telephone on +44 7411 525634. This Policy should be read with the Privacy Policy. It implements, as applicable, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 as amended, together with the UK GDPR where personal data is stored or accessed through cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers stored on your device. Similar technologies include pixels, local storage keys, and certain SDK identifiers. This website is a professional presentation of Apple app development services, not a consumer social product. We therefore aim to keep storage sparse. We do not use cookies to auction your profile, to follow you around unrelated publishers, or to infer sensitive categories. Where a cookie is not strictly necessary to provide a service you requested, we will not set it unless the law allows, typically through consent that is specific, informed and as easy to refuse as to give.
2. Strictly necessary storage
Strictly necessary cookies are required to deliver the site as you asked for it: to load pages, to keep a cookie-preference choice if we present one, to protect forms from crude abuse, and to maintain security sessions on the host. Without some of this storage the site may not remember that you already answered a banner, or a form may be easier to flood. These cookies do not require PECR consent because they are necessary to provide the information society service. They still process personal data under the Privacy Policy’s lawful bases when an identifier can be linked to a person.
Examples include a short-lived token that records your cookie choice, a load-balancer stickiness cookie on a host, and security cookies that distinguish a browser from a scripted flood. Lifetimes are kept short where possible. First-party setting is preferred. We do not treat advertising as necessary. We do not treat social-media sharing widgets as necessary. The development request form needs a working connection and valid fields; it does not need a marketing pixel to function.
3. Analytics, performance and diagnostics
If CRADERO LIMITED enables analytics on cradero.technology, those cookies or similar probes measure which pages are read, whether the contact form fails, and whether mobile overflow appears. That measurement helps us keep the darkroom interface readable. It is not a licence to build a shadow dossier. Analytics that are not strictly necessary will run only with consent where PECR requires it. IP addresses used for analytics will be truncated or otherwise minimised where the tool allows. We will not merge analytics with App Store Connect data to identify a website visitor as a particular Apple developer unless you log into a client portal that we have explicitly launched, which this static site does not currently provide.
Server logs described in the Privacy Policy are not always cookies. They may still record IP addresses. They are used for security and repair. Blocking cookies does not always block logs. If you wish to browse with fewer identifiers, a standard browser privacy mode reduces some storage but is not a legal instruction to us by itself. A legal instruction is a rights request under the Privacy Policy.
4. Functional cookies
Functional cookies remember choices that are not strictly necessary but improve consistency, such as a collapsed accordion state. This site is designed to work without a thick layer of functional cookies. If we add a genuine functional cookie, we will name it in the table of this Policy and, where PECR requires consent, wait for that consent. We will not hide a functional cookie inside a necessary cookie. We will not use a functional cookie as a covert analytics tool.
5. Advertising and social cookies
CRADERO LIMITED does not currently set third-party advertising cookies on cradero.technology. We do not run retargeting pools. We do not drop social network pixels that report your visit to a platform. If that changes, this Policy will be updated before the tags go live, and non-essential tags will be gated. We do not consider App Store badges, if displayed as static images, to be cookies. An embedded Google Map on the contact page may set cookies by Google when you interact with the iframe. That is Google’s technology. Avoid the map if you do not want that interaction; the postal address is printed in full: 25 Belhaven Park, Muirhead, Glasgow, Scotland, G69 9FA.
6. How to control cookies in your browser
You can delete cookies, block third-party cookies, or block all cookies in your browser settings. Blocking all cookies may impair strictly necessary features. Browser controls differ on iPhone, iPad and desktop. On Apple devices, settings exist both in the browser app and in system settings for tracking, depending on the operating system version. Those system settings govern apps more than this website, but they are part of the same privacy culture we respect as a native Apple app solutions firm. We will not instruct you to disable security cookies as a condition of using the site.
Global Privacy Control or similar browser signals may be honoured where we reasonably recognise them as a valid consent-refusal for non-essential cookies. A signal is not always a data-subject access request. If you want a full copy of data, follow the Privacy Policy. If you want cookies reduced, browser settings plus any banner we display are the first tools.
7. Duration, first-party and third-party
Session cookies expire when you close the browser. Persistent cookies last until their expiry or until you delete them. We prefer first-party cookies set by cradero.technology. Third-party cookies are those set by another domain, such as a map or font provider. This site loads fonts from Google Fonts, which may involve a network request to Google. That request can transfer your IP address to Google under Google’s terms. If that is unacceptable, use a browser extension or a network filter; we also aim to keep layout readable if fonts fail. We do not load a dozen tag-manager containers.
A typical necessary cookie lifetime is measured in months for a preference, and in minutes or hours for a security token. We will not set a decade-long advertising identifier. If a host platform inserts its own cookie, we will describe it when we know of it. Cloud hosts change quietly; we review the stack when we change providers.
8. Similar technologies in commissioned applications
Software we develop for clients may use Keychain, UserDefaults, local databases, or Apple’s advertising identifier APIs. Those technologies are not cookies on cradero.technology. They are part of iOS product development and must be disclosed in the application’s privacy notice and App Store answers. CRADERO LIMITED will not silently add a tracker SDK to custom iPhone software to feed this website. If a client requests analytics inside an app, that is a product decision documented in the engagement, with attention to App Tracking Transparency where Apple requires a prompt.
TestFlight and App Store Connect are Apple services with their own cookies and accounts when you visit Apple domains. This Policy does not govern Apple.com. During App Store application development you will use Apple’s sites under Apple’s rules.
9. Consent records and withdrawal
Where we rely on consent for a non-essential cookie, we keep a record of what was shown, when, and what choice was made, for as long as needed to demonstrate PECR compliance. Withdrawal is as easy as the original grant: use the same banner controls if present, or write to admin@cradero.technology. Withdrawal does not make past lawful use unlawful. After withdrawal we will not set that non-essential cookie again until you ask. Strictly necessary cookies may continue.
10. Updates, children and complaints
We may update this Cookie Policy. The date at the top is the version. The site is not aimed at children. Complaints about cookies can be sent to us or to the Information Commissioner’s Office. We would rather fix an overexposed tag than argue. CRADERO LIMITED’s commercial metaphor is controlled exposure; that metaphor includes not spraying hidden identifiers across a visitor’s device. If you read only one sentence, read this: we use as little storage as the site needs, we explain maps and fonts, we do not run an ad exchange, and you can reach a human at admin@cradero.technology or +44 7411 525634 from Glasgow.
If a future client portal is added, new cookies will be listed before login is enabled. If we add a payment iframe, the processor’s cookies will be named. Until then, treat this Policy as a complete description of a largely static professional site that posts a small form and shows a map of Muirhead. That is the honest print.
11. Table of current cookie classes
Class A: strictly necessary preference or security cookies set by cradero.technology or its host, purpose: deliver the site and remember a consent choice, expiry: session to twelve months, type: first party. Class B: hosting platform cookies we do not author individually but which appear because a content-delivery network protects the site, purpose: routing and basic DDoS hygiene, expiry: as set by the host, type: first or partitioned third party. Class C: Google Map cookies, purpose: render the Muirhead map after interaction, expiry: as set by Google, type: third party, control: do not load the map. Class D: Google Fonts network requests, purpose: typography, which may not be a cookie but is similar in privacy effect, control: browser or network blocking. Class E: analytics cookies, purpose: page measurement, status: not enabled unless this Policy is updated to say they are live and, if PECR requires, consented. No class exists for advertising IDs on this website.
If you inspect your browser and find a cookie that does not fit these classes, write to us with the cookie name and the time. We will investigate whether a host update inserted it. We will not ignore a precise report. Vague accusations without names are harder to develop into a fix, but we will still look.
12. Relationship with Apple tracking rules
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework governs apps, not this website. CRADERO LIMITED nevertheless takes the culture seriously: identifiers should not wander. We will not tell iOS UI development clients that a hidden webview is a clever way to dodge ATT. We will not tell website visitors that refusing cookies is hostile. Refusal is a normal mask. The print still exists without the extra grain of tracking. That is how a Glasgow Apple development company should behave, and it is how this Cookie Policy is meant to be read: as a limit, not as a permission slip for future excess.
For completeness, local storage, session storage, ETags, and fingerprinting techniques are treated as similar technologies. We do not use canvas fingerprinting or audio fingerprinting on cradero.technology. We do not use a hidden 1×1 pixel to report to an ad network. We do not use a font-enumeration script to identify you. Diagnostic console logging in a released marketing site is kept quiet. If our own JavaScript stores a key in local storage, it will be for a user-requested function such as remembering that a menu was closed, and it will be described here when used. At the time of this version, the site’s JavaScript focuses on menu scroll lock, form validation, scroll reveals, and a redirect to thanks_you.html. That script does not need a third-party advertising cookie to do its job.
13. Fonts, maps, hosting and content delivery
Typography on cradero.technology is loaded from Google Fonts. That request can disclose your IP address and user-agent to Google. We accept that as a design trade for a sharp editorial serif and a readable sans. If you block the request, the site should still remain usable with system fonts. The map iframe on the contact page loads Google Maps for 25 Belhaven Park, Muirhead, Glasgow, Scotland, G69 9FA. Interaction with that iframe is a request for a map service from Google, not from CRADERO LIMITED. Hosting and content-delivery networks may set cookies to route traffic and to absorb hostile floods. Those cookies are operational. We review host defaults when we change provider. We do not enable extra marketing tags in the host dashboard as a casual click.
Email links are not used. The address admin@cradero.technology is printed as text so that a mail client cookie is not forced by a mailto handler on this site. Telephone +44 7411 525634 is also printed as text. Those choices are cookie-minimising as well as editorial. They do not stop your own device from storing call logs; that is your device, not our website.
14. Consent interface design principles
If a banner is displayed, it will offer a genuine choice. We will not disguise a refuse control. We will not bundle analytics with strictly necessary storage. We will not rely on scroll as consent. We will not rely on continued browsing as consent for non-essential cookies. We will not use pre-ticked boxes. We will keep language in English, matching the site. We will not use a dark-pattern contrast that hides the reject path. CRADERO LIMITED builds iOS UI development with hierarchy; the same ethic applies to a cookie banner. If at a given version no banner appears, that is because we are not setting non-essential cookies, not because we forgot PECR.
Consent, where used, is separate from the development request form. Sending a message about Apple app development services is not consent for advertising cookies. Hiring us is not consent for a pixel. Paying an invoice is not consent for a social tracker. Each chemical bath has its own ticket.
15. Do not track, GPC and Apple privacy features
Some browsers send a DNT header. Some send Global Privacy Control. Safari on iPhone includes Intelligent Tracking Prevention. We respect the spirit of those tools: we do not try to re-identify users who have asked for less tracking. We may not be able to read every signal in every browser version. Where we recognise a GPC signal, we treat it as a refusal of non-essential cookies. We do not treat it as a deletion request for contract files. Deletion is a Privacy Policy right with identity checks. Mixing those paths would underexpose one and overexpose the other.
Apple’s hide-my-email and private relay features may make a visitor look like they come from a relay address. We will still reply to the address we received if you used the form. We will not punish privacy features. Native Apple app solutions should coexist with Apple’s own privacy tools, not fight them.
16. Retention of cookie logs and security cookies
Preference records are kept long enough to honour your choice and to show a regulator what was shown. Security cookies and associated logs follow the shorter security retention in the Privacy Policy. We do not keep a permanent cookie identifier as a customer number. If you delete cookies, we may not recognise a previous preference until you choose again. That is expected. It is not a defect in iPhone software development; it is how browsers work. If a host stores an edge log with an IP and a cookie hash, that pair is used for abuse detection, not for a newsletter.
Backups may contain cookie logs for a rolling period. Restoring a backup does not revive a marketing profile we never built. Questions: admin@cradero.technology. Address: 25 Belhaven Park, Muirhead, Glasgow, Scotland, G69 9FA. Phone: +44 7411 525634. Company: CRADERO LIMITED. Site: cradero.technology.
17. Final cookie print
This Cookie Policy is meant to be a clean proof: few classes, named third parties, a real company in Scotland, and no hidden ad exchange. Unclear tracking becomes unacceptable when exposure is not controlled. We would rather under-instrument the marketing site than stain a visitor’s device. If you want the commercial work, use the development request note. If you want the map, load the map. If you want neither cookie discussion nor a map, read the address in text and write to us. That path still works. It is the driest print.
Updates will be published on this URL. The version date appears at the top of the page. Material new tags will not be introduced silently. CRADERO LIMITED’s Apple mobile technology practice includes saying what identifiers exist. This page is that statement for the website. Applications we build for clients have their own statements. Do not mix the two trays.