Voice does not use any non-essential cookies. The only cookies set are strictly necessary for the site to function - such as session and login cookies. Under UK and EU ePrivacy law, these cookies are exempt from consent requirements, so no cookie banner is needed.
Voice does no tracking or analytics of its own. We do not use Google Analytics or any third-party tracking service, and we do not share visitor data with third parties.
Web statistics
The admin pages of your website includes basic web statistics — page views, visitor counts, and similar — but these are derived from server logs, not cookies. No tracking code runs on your site's pages, and visitors are not tracked across sessions to produce these stats.
If you want to add analytics to your site
You can add analytics to your Voice site by adding the tracking Javascript code into the theme settings, but your choice of tool affects whether you need to display a cookie consent banner to your visitors.
Cookieless analytics (no banner required)
Some analytics tools work entirely without cookies, tracking visits using server-side methods that don't store anything on the visitor's device. You can use these freely without a consent banner:
- Simple Analytics - EU based. Free tier available.
- Umami - US based. Free tier available.
- Plausible - EU based. From £9/month.
- Fathom - US based with EU data storage. From $15/month.
Analytics that require a cookie banner
Tools such as Google Analytics set persistent tracking cookies on visitors' devices. If you add Google Analytics (or similar) to your site, you are legally required to display a cookie consent banner before setting those cookies. Voice does not currently provide a built-in consent banner, so you would need to arrange this separately.
For most community and voluntary sector sites, a cookieless tool will provide everything you need without the added complexity of a consent banner.