Cookies and similar technologies
Cookie policy
Exactly which cookies this site can set, what each one is for, how long it lasts, and how to accept, decline or change your mind. Nothing optional is stored before you agree to it.
Last updated: 13 October 2026. This document is an informational template prepared for Taste The Night and should be reviewed by a lawyer qualified in New Zealand before it is relied on.
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What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep, so that something can be remembered between one page and the next — that you are in a session, for instance, or that you have already answered this banner. Similar technologies do the same job by other means: localStorage, which keeps a value in your browser until it is cleared, and pixels or scripts loaded by a third party.
This site uses a small number of cookies, one localStorage entry, and nothing else unless you consent to it.
The three categories
- Necessary. Without these the site does not work: the session that carries your half-filled enquiry form, the token that protects the form from being submitted from another site, and the record of the cookie choice you are making here. They never enable analytics or advertising storage. They cannot be switched off, which is why we do not ask.
- Analytics. These would let us count visits and see which formats and pages people actually read, so we can write better ones. Off until you switch them on.
- Marketing. These would let advertising be measured and, where you allow it, personalised. Off until you switch them on.
Every cookie we can set
| Name | What it does | Lifetime | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
tastethenight_cookie_choice |
Stores the choice you make in the cookie banner, including a refusal, so you are not asked again. | 180 days | Necessary |
ttn_session |
Holds the server session that keeps your enquiry form state and its security token. | Until the browser closes | Necessary |
ttn_theme |
Remembers whether you chose the light or the dark theme, so the first paint of the page is already right. | 180 days | Necessary |
tastethenight-theme |
The same theme preference, kept in localStorage. Strictly speaking this is not a cookie: it is never sent to our server and nothing can read it but this site. |
Until you clear your browser storage | Necessary |
| Google analytics and advertising cookies | Would measure visits and advertising. Not set at all today: no Google tag is loaded from this template. If one is added later, it will load only after consent, and this table will list each cookie by name before it does. | Per Google’s documentation | Analytics / Marketing |
Google Consent Mode v2
The site is built for Google Consent Mode v2. Before you choose anything, all four signals are denied:
ad_storage: deniedanalytics_storage: deniedad_user_data: deniedad_personalization: denied
Accepting analytics updates analytics_storage. Accepting marketing updates ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization. Declining leaves every one of them denied, and we store that refusal so you are not asked again for 180 days.
How to accept, decline or change your mind
- On the banner: Accept, Decline and Settings are three buttons of the same size and weight. Declining is one click, exactly like accepting.
- In Settings: switch analytics and marketing on or off independently. Both start off, and we never pre-tick a box.
- Afterwards: the Cookie settings button in the footer of every page reopens the panel, and whatever you choose there replaces your earlier choice.
- In your browser: you can delete cookies for this site or block them entirely in your browser settings. The site will still work; it will simply ask again.
If JavaScript is switched off, the settings panel cannot open — and nothing optional is set at all, so there is nothing to withdraw.
Links worth reading
- How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services
- Google’s privacy commitments for business
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC), where a privacy complaint can be made
- Our own privacy policy
The legal basis
In New Zealand the handling of personal information through cookies falls under the Privacy Act 2020, supervised by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC). New Zealand law does not impose the European-style prior-consent rule for every cookie, but we ask anyway: it is required by Google Consent Mode v2 for advertising measurement, and it is the fairer way round. Necessary cookies are set on the basis of making a service you asked for work at all.
Contact
Taste The Night, 44 Richard Street, Riverton South, Riverton/Aparima 9822, New Zealand.
Email [email protected], phone +64 3234 81 33, website tastethenight.com.