Cookie policy

The first time you arrive we ask whether you agree to measurement cookies. Until you answer, nothing optional loads and nothing optional is stored. Accepting and refusing are one click each, and refusing costs you nothing. The site works exactly the same either way.

You can change your answer whenever you like. Cookie settings reopens the panel, and refusing after previously agreeing also deletes what was stored under that agreement.

These make the site work and cannot be switched off. They do not need your permission, because without them the thing you asked for cannot be delivered.

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Remembers the cookie choice you made on this page, so you are not asked again on every visit. Set by us. Lasts about 6 months, after which you are asked again.

Theme preference

Remembers whether you chose the light or dark version of the site, so it does not flicker to the wrong one when a page loads. Stored on your own device and never sent to us.

These tell us how many people visit and which pages are worth keeping. They do not load at all unless you agree, and they carry nothing that identifies you by name.

Our own visitor count

A random identifier kept on your device so that ten pages read by one person are not counted as ten people. It holds no name, no email address and nothing that points back to you. Kept for 365 days, then deleted.

IP address

Recorded alongside the visit so we can tell roughly where traffic comes from and spot abuse. An IP address counts as personal information, which is why it sits behind the same agreement as everything else here.

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Google Analytics. Tells one browser apart from another so that a return visit is not counted as a new person. Set by Google on our behalf. Lasts up to two years. Loaded only after you agree, and never before.

Google acts as our processor for this and is contractually limited to what we ask of it. If you would rather block Google Analytics everywhere, Google publishes a browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We do not run advertising or remarketing cookies on this site. The consent panel still offers the choice so that if that ever changes, your answer is already on record and nothing starts without it.

Some of what is described here sits in your browser's local storage rather than in a cookie. That difference matters to a developer and not to you. The law covers both, so we ask about both, and saying no clears both.

Every browser lets you see what is stored and delete it, usually under privacy or site settings. Blocking the strictly necessary items will make parts of this site behave oddly, including the bit that remembers you have already answered this question.

Ask us at [email protected]. What we do with the information itself, and the rights you have over it, are set out in the privacy policy.