1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on a device by a website or third-party service. Similar technologies can include local storage, pixels and device identifiers.
2. How Settl uses cookies
The public website uses optional Google Analytics 4 measurement only after analytics consent is granted. Consent is stored locally as the Settl analytics preference.
The Settl iOS app does not load Google Analytics, does not show this analytics choice and does not track you: it uses only the cookies needed to keep you signed in and remember your settings, such as your distance units.
The site does load Google Fonts and embeds Google Calendar Appointment Scheduling on the Teams Demo and Venue Demo pages. Those third parties may process technical information or use cookies under their own policies.
3. Cookie categories
Strictly necessary
Settl sets its own cookies to keep you signed in to the Settl app or to the venue and company portals, and to carry the details you gave when joining the waitlist into sign-up. The site can't work without them, so they don't need consent.
Functional
Settl remembers your settings, such as distance units, whether to use your location and your last approximate position for sorting nearby venues, in cookies and in your browser's local storage. Third-party appointment scheduling may also use storage to run its booking calendar.
Analytics and marketing
Google Analytics 4 is optional analytics technology and is loaded only after analytics consent.
4. Current technology audit
| Cookie / storage | Provider | Purpose | Category | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reef_consumer_auth | Settl | Keeps you signed in to the Settl app. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| reef_portal_auth | Settl | Keeps venue and company staff signed in to the portal. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| signup_prefill | Settl | Carries the name and email you gave on the waitlist into sign-up. | Strictly necessary | 10 minutes |
| settl_units | Settl | Remembers whether distances are shown in miles or kilometres. | Functional | 2 years |
| settl-near | Settl | Your approximate location, used only to sort nearby venues. Never saved to your account. | Functional | 15 minutes |
| settl:use-location (local storage) | Settl | Remembers whether you turned on “Use my location”. | Functional | Until you clear it |
| settl:location-asked (session storage) | Settl | Stops the app asking for your location twice in one visit. | Functional | Until you close the tab |
| settl_analytics_consent (local storage) | Settl | Remembers your analytics choice on the website. Not used in the iOS app. | Strictly necessary | Until you clear it |
| Font requests | Google Fonts | Provides Alan Sans and DM Sans to the public website. | Third-party service | Google Fonts serves the site's typefaces and caches the font files in your browser; it does not set cookies for advertising. |
| Appointment scheduling storage | Google Calendar Appointment Scheduling | Provides interactive Teams and Venue demo booking embeds. | Functional third party | Google sets its own cookies when a booking calendar is embedded on a demo page. Those cookies are described in Google's own cookie notice. |
5. Third-party services
Google Calendar embeds load from Google when a demo page is opened. Google Fonts resources are requested when pages load. Settl does not define Google's cookie names or retention periods in this repository.
Google Analytics, Google Fonts and Google Calendar are covered by Google's privacy policy and cookie notice; Stripe, which handles payments, is covered by Stripe's privacy policy.
6. Managing your preferences
The site presents an analytics consent choice. Accepting stores a granted preference and loads Google Analytics 4; rejecting stores a denied preference and does not load it.
Browser controls
Most browsers allow users to view, block or delete cookies. Blocking third-party storage may affect embedded appointment scheduling.
7. Changes to this policy
This policy should be updated whenever the website's cookies, embedded services or tracking technologies change.
We may update this policy; the current version is always posted here with the date above.
8. Contact
Settl is operated by Settl Anywhere Limited (company number 17312588), whose registered office is at Unit 14, Sheffield Science Park, Arundel Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom, S1 2NS. Privacy and data-protection enquiries can be sent to privacy@trysettl.com.
See the Privacy Policy, User & Company Terms, and Venue Terms.