Cookie Policy.
This notice explains cookies and similar technologies, what the current Orchis IV website actually uses and how your choices will be respected.
1. What cookies and similar technologies are
Cookies are small text files stored on a device when a website is visited. Similar technologies include local storage, software development kits, tracking pixels, tags and device identifiers. They may remember choices, support security, measure use or enable third party content.
2. What this website currently uses
The Orchis IV booking pathway creates one first party session cookie when the secure booking session begins. It supports booking security and continuity. The Practitioner and Results Hubs use secure first-party session cookies for time-limited access. General browsing does not use analytics, advertising, social media, functional or preference cookies. Google Analytics, Meta Pixel and comparable tracking tools are not installed. Orchis IV's own browser code does not use local storage for appointment, payment or health information.
When Embedded Checkout is enabled, Stripe's secure Checkout form loads within an Orchis IV payment page. The payment fields are supplied by Stripe in a protected frame, so card details are sent directly to Stripe and are not received or stored by Orchis IV. If the protected rollback setting is needed, Checkout opens on Stripe's secure domain instead. In both arrangements, Stripe may use cookies and similar technologies for checkout security, fraud prevention and risk assessment. Your bank may also display a separate authentication step.
3. Current technology table
| Provider | Technology | Purpose | Category | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orchis IV | orchis_booking | Protects the booking form against forged requests and keeps the secure booking and payment session continuous | Strictly necessary | Browser session |
| Stripe Checkout, embedded or hosted rollback | Stripe cookies and similar checkout technologies within Stripe's secure payment frame or hosted service | Secure card authorisation and payment processing, fraud prevention, risk assessment and checkout operation | Strictly necessary third party payment technology controlled by Stripe | Varies by technology; see Stripe's current policy |
Stripe controls and may update the technologies used within Checkout. See Stripe's Cookie Policy for its current details. Orchis IV will review this table if the payment configuration or website technology changes.
4. Categories we may use in future
Strictly necessary technologies may be required for website security, booking continuity, fraud prevention, consent records or secure payment. Where they are genuinely necessary for a service you request, consent is not normally required, but clear information will still be provided.
Functional technologies remember optional preferences. Analytics technologies measure how visitors use the website. Advertising and social media technologies may profile activity, measure campaigns or connect the website to other platforms. These nonessential categories will not be used before valid consent.
5. First party and third party technologies
First party technologies are set by Orchis IV. Third party technologies are set by another provider, such as a payment, booking, video, map, analytics or social media service. Before any third party technology is installed, this notice and the cookie table must be updated with its provider, purpose, category and duration.
6. Consent management
Because the present Orchis IV website uses only the technology needed for a secure booking service requested by the user, it does not display a cookie consent banner. Clear information is still provided here. If Orchis IV introduces any nonessential technology, a consent management platform will prevent it from loading before consent and will provide equally prominent choices to accept or reject it. Consent choices will be recorded, and a persistent control will allow consent to be changed or withdrawn as easily as it was given.
7. Payments, embedded content and future tools
Stripe Checkout loads only after you decide to continue with payment. In the normal embedded arrangement, the Orchis IV address remains visible while the card fields and payment technologies inside the secure frame are supplied and controlled by Stripe. A protected hosted fallback may instead open on Stripe's domain. Stripe provides its own privacy and cookie information in both arrangements. A bank authentication step may open outside the embedded payment frame before returning you to Orchis IV.
Embedded maps, videos, review widgets and social media feeds are not currently loaded. If introduced, they will not load nonessential technologies before valid consent. Ordinary links to external websites do not place their technologies on the Orchis IV website, although the destination website may use its own cookies after you follow the link.
8. Browser controls
You can use your browser settings to delete or block cookies. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of a future secure booking or payment service from working. Browser controls do not replace the consent choices the website must provide for nonessential technologies.
9. Changes and contact
We will update this notice and its table whenever the website’s technology changes. Questions can be sent to joyediran@orchis-iv.co.uk or raised by telephone on 07399 177445.