Cookie Policy
Last reviewed 8 September 2026
This site sets no cookies of its own to track you. The cookies your browser may store while you read here belong to Google Analytics, which we use to count page views in aggregate. This page lists exactly what those cookies are, how long each one lasts, and how to remove or block them. Nothing on this site stops working if you refuse every cookie, because the pages are static files.
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 page views or visits. The same idea covers a few related technologies a page can use, such as local storage, session storage and tracking pixels; where they matter here they are treated the same way as cookies. A cookie set by the site you are visiting is called first-party; one set by another company whose code runs on the page, such as an analytics or advertising provider, is called third-party. That distinction is the one that matters most on this site, because almost everything below is third-party.
Does this site set its own cookies?
No first-party tracking cookies. The site is built as static files and served without a login, a basket, a comment box or any feature that would need to remember who you are from one page to the next. There is therefore nothing for a first-party cookie to do, and none is set for that purpose. The only cookies you will meet come from the third-party services named below.
The categories of cookie you may meet here
Cookies are usually grouped by what they are for. Only the analytics row is live on this site today; the advertising row is listed because the site is built to be ad-funded and this policy is written to stay accurate when that begins, not to imply it already has.
| Category | What it does | Status here |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Cookies a site cannot function without, such as security or load balancing. | None set. The static pages need none. |
| Analytics | Counts visits and which pages are read, in aggregate, to decide what to write and fix. | Active (Google Analytics 4). |
| Advertising | Used by ad networks to select and measure ads, often across other sites. | Not currently used. See the note below. |
| Preferences | Remembers choices such as a theme or a dismissed banner. | None set. |
The specific cookies you may find
These are the individual cookies the live analytics service places. Names and lifespans are set by Google rather than by us, and Google can change them; the figures below reflect its current published behaviour for Google Analytics 4.
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Typical lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | Distinguishes one browser from another so visits are not double-counted. | 2 years |
_ga_<id> | Google Analytics | Keeps the state of a single session for the specific analytics property. | 2 years |
If cookies appear whose names are not in this table, they are almost certainly set by a browser extension or by a link you followed away from here, not by this site. You can inspect every cookie on any page using your browser's developer tools, under the Application or Storage tab.
Advertising cookies: why the list above is short
This site is intended to fund itself with advertising, which would ordinarily add cookies from Google and its partners for selecting and measuring ads. Those are not running yet. In particular, for readers in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, the obligation to ask for consent before advertising cookies are set sits with the site rather than the ad network, and advertising will not be switched on for those regions until a certified consent tool is in place. When advertising does begin, this policy will be updated to name the cookies involved before they are served, and the broader handling of ad data is covered on our privacy policy.
How to control cookies in your browser
Every major browser lets you see the cookies a site has stored, delete them, and block new ones, either everywhere or for one site. Blocking cookies here removes the analytics count and changes nothing you can read. The settings live in slightly different places:
- Chrome: Settings then Privacy and security then Third-party cookies, or Google's cookie guide for Chrome.
- Safari: Settings then Privacy, where you can block cookies and manage stored data, per Apple's Safari instructions.
- Firefox: Settings then Privacy & Security then Cookies and Site Data, per Mozilla's guide.
- Edge: Settings then Cookies and site permissions, per Microsoft's guide.
To turn off Google Analytics across every site at once, rather than browser by browser, install Google's official opt-out add-on. Using your browser's private or incognito mode also discards cookies when you close the window.
Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track
Some browsers can send an automated signal, such as Global Privacy Control or the older Do Not Track header, asking sites not to sell or share personal information. Because this site sets no first-party tracking cookies and does not sell data, there is nothing here for such a signal to switch off. Where a third-party service you reach through this site honours those signals, it does so under its own policy.
Changes to this policy
This page will be updated whenever the cookies actually used on the site change, most obviously if advertising begins. The review date at the top shows when it was last checked against what the site does. For the wider picture of how any data is handled, and how to opt out of advertising vendors, see the privacy policy; the terms of use cover how far the figures on the site can be relied on.