Cookie Policy
Last updated: 3 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how David Essery – New Moon Art (“we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on david-essery.com.
It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more generally how we collect and use personal information.
What are cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies are small text files stored by your browser when you visit a website. They can help websites remember information between pages or visits.
We also use browser storage for limited functional purposes, such as remembering the contents of your shopping basket. Although browser storage is not technically a cookie, similar privacy rules apply to its use.
How we use cookies
We divide the technologies used on this website into two categories:
Essential
Essential cookies and browser storage are required for services you request, including:
- Remembering your shopping basket.
- Providing access to purchased workshops and recordings.
- Maintaining security and session state.
- Remembering your cookie preferences.
- Remembering that you have dismissed a temporary website notice.
These technologies cannot be disabled through our cookie manager because parts of the website would no longer work correctly.
Analytics
With your permission, we use analytics technologies to understand how visitors use the website and how features such as the shopping basket perform.
Analytics helps us understand information such as:
- Which pages are visited.
- How visitors navigate the website.
- General browser and device information.
- Approximate geographic information.
- Interactions with the shopping basket and checkout buttons.
- Errors or usability problems.
Analytics is disabled unless you choose to accept it. You can withdraw your permission at any time using the “Cookie settings” link in the website footer.
Technologies used on this website
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| nma_consent | New Moon Art | Records whether you accepted or rejected analytics, together with the policy version and date of your choice. | 180 days |
| accept_cookies | New Moon Art | Maintains compatibility with existing website functionality while recording whether analytics was accepted. | 180 days |
| zoom_user_id | New Moon Art | Maintains a secure session after you request access to purchased Zoom meetings or recordings. | Browser session |
| nma_shopify_cart_id | New Moon Art | Stores the identifier needed to retrieve your shopping basket. This is held in browser local storage. | Until removed or browser data is cleared |
| nma_shopify_cart_snapshot | New Moon Art | Temporarily caches basket contents to make the basket faster and more reliable. This is held in browser local storage. | Until replaced, removed or browser data is cleared |
| Promotional notice cookie | New Moon Art | Remembers that you dismissed a temporary promotional notice so it is not immediately shown again. Its name varies according to the active notice. | 1 day |
Google states that _ga distinguishes users and _ga_<container-id> maintains session state. Browser restrictions may result in shorter durations than the stated maximum. Google Analytics cookie documentation
Google Analytics is implemented through the Beehive Analytics plugin. This allows us to view a limited amount of analytics reporting within WordPress and to measure website and shopping-basket interactions.
Google advertising storage, advertising personalisation and advertising user data are disabled by default through Google Consent Mode.
Before publishing: retain the WPMU DEV entries only if you want to keep that second analytics service. It must first be connected to the new analytics consent setting.
YouTube videos
Some pages contain embedded YouTube videos.
Before you play a video, the website displays an image hosted on our own website. This means the page does not need to contact YouTube merely to display the video preview.
When you choose to press Play:
- A YouTube player is loaded from
youtube-nocookie.com. - Your browser connects directly to Google/YouTube.
- Google may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser information and the page containing the video.
- YouTube may store or access information on your device according to its own policies.
The player is only loaded following your deliberate request to watch the video. You can review Google’s privacy policy for more information.
Shopping and Shopify
The shopping basket on this website is provided using Shopify services. We use essential local browser storage to remember and retrieve your basket.
When you proceed to checkout, you are transferred to Shopify’s checkout service. Shopify may use additional cookies and similar technologies needed to provide checkout, payment, security and fraud-prevention services. These are governed by Shopify’s own privacy and cookie information.
Managing your choices
When you first visit the website, you can:
- Accept analytics.
- Reject optional analytics.
- Customise your choice.
You can change your decision at any time by selecting “Cookie settings” in the website footer.
Withdrawing analytics consent prevents analytics from loading on future page views and removes analytics cookies that are accessible to this website. It does not affect essential storage required for the basket, security, recordings or your cookie preference.
You can also remove cookies and browser storage using your browser settings. Removing essential storage may empty your basket, sign you out of recordings or cause the cookie banner to appear again.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when website functionality or the services we use change. The date at the top shows when it was last updated.
Contact us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use personal information, please use the contact details provided in our Privacy Policy.