Where we stand
This site runs no advertising trackers and no analytics. The storage it uses is almost entirely there to make the pages work — remembering the palette you chose, keeping your pharmacy basket, and recording the answer you gave this banner so it stops asking.
The one genuinely third-party category is embedded panels: the Google map and the social feeds. Those are not loaded at all until you allow them, because loading one hands your IP address to Google or Meta whether or not you look at it.
Nothing non-essential loads before you answer
An unanswered banner is treated exactly like a refusal. There is no implied consent from scrolling, and closing the banner does not accept anything.
The three categories
- Essential
- Cannot be switched off, because the site stops working without it. Nothing in this category is shared with anyone: it is written by this site, read by this site, and stays on your device.
- Maps & social feeds
- Off unless you allow it. Allowing it lets the Google map and the Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn panels load, and those companies then see your IP address, your browser and which page you were on.
- Anonymous usage statistics
- Off, and currently unused — no analytics product is installed. The choice exists so that if one is ever added, it is added only for visitors who already agreed, rather than switched on over an old consent.
The full inventory
| Name | Kind | Set by | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| aslam_consent | Cookie | Aslam Clinic | Remembers this choice so the banner is not shown again. | 6 months |
| aslam-theme | Local storage | Aslam Clinic | Remembers whether you chose the light or the dark palette. | Until you clear your browser |
| aslam-splash-seen | Session storage | Aslam Clinic | Skips the opening animation for the rest of this visit. | Until the tab is closed |
| aslam-pharmacy-cart | Local storage | Aslam Clinic | Keeps the medicines in your basket while you browse the shelf. | Until you clear the basket or your browser |
| admin:rail | Local storage | Aslam Clinic | Remembers whether a staff member had the admin sidebar open. Never set on a patient's device. | Until the browser is cleared |
| authjs.session-token | Cookie | Aslam Clinic | Signs a staff member into the admin console. Only ever set after a successful staff login. | 30 days, or until sign-out |
| NID, SOCS and related Google cookies | Cookie | Google LLC | Set by the Google Maps panel once you choose to load it. Not set before that. | Set by Google — typically up to 6 months |
| datr, sb, wd and related Meta cookies | Cookie | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Set by the Facebook and Instagram panels once you choose to load them. Not set before that. | Set by Meta — typically up to 2 years |
| bcookie, li_gc and related LinkedIn cookies | Cookie | LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | Set by an embedded LinkedIn post once you choose to load it. Not set before that. | Set by LinkedIn — typically up to 2 years |
Third-party lifetimes are set by those companies, not by us, and their own notices govern what they do with what they collect: Google's at policies.google.com/privacy, Meta's at privacy.facebook.com and LinkedIn's at linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
Changing your answer
- Use the “Cookie choices” link in the footer of any page. It reopens the panel with your current answer selected.
- Withdrawing is exactly as easy as giving — one click, in the same place.
- Your browser can also clear or block storage for this site entirely. The essential items are the only ones the site needs, so blocking the rest costs you nothing here.
We keep a record of the choice you made and when, because a consent we cannot evidence is not a consent. That record holds the decision and the time, not your identity.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
This site has nothing to track you with, so a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal changes nothing here — there is no advertising or analytics to suppress. If that ever changes, an opt-out signal will be honoured as a refusal without you being asked twice.