Cookie Policy
This is a short policy, because there is little to report. Today the site sets no cookies of its own and loads no third-party analytics or advertising, and our fonts are hosted on our own domain. That is why you will not see a consent banner: there is nothing non-essential to consent to. This page explains all of that, and what we would do if it ever changed.
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1. What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store, so it can recognise your device on a later visit or during a session. The same rules cover similar technologies — anything that stores information on your device or reads what is already there, such as local storage or device fingerprinting. Throughout this policy, when we say “cookies” we mean that whole family of techniques, not just the file itself.
2. Our approach
We have built this site to need as little of your data as possible, and cookies are part of that. We do not run third-party analytics, we serve no advertising, and we host our fonts ourselves rather than pulling them from a third party — so loading a page does not quietly hand your details to anyone. The result is a site that, as it stands, does not depend on cookies to do its job, which keeps this policy refreshingly thin.
3. The categories of cookies
Cookies are grouped by what they are for, and the law treats each group differently. The four standard categories are:
Cookies a site cannot work without — keeping a session, balancing server load, protecting against cross-site request forgery, or remembering your cookie choices. The law exempts these from consent, but a site must still tell you they exist.
Cookies that remember choices you make, such as a language or a display setting. Convenient, but not essential to deliver the page, so they require your consent first.
Cookies that measure how visitors use a site. Useful for improving it, but they require prior consent — legitimate interest is not enough for analytics under the combined ePrivacy and GDPR rules.
Cookies that track behaviour across pages or sites to build profiles or target ads. These always require explicit opt-in, and we do not use them at all.
4. What we use today
At the time of the date above, this site sets no cookies of its own and uses no analytics, preference, or marketing cookies. We do not store anything in your browser to track you.
The only cookies you might ever encounter on a site like this are strictly necessary ones set at the infrastructure level — for example, a security or load-balancing cookie placed by our hosting or content-delivery provider to keep the site safe and available. If any such cookie applies, it falls in the “strictly necessary” category, carries no tracking, and is exempt from consent.
5. Why there is no consent banner
Consent banners exist to get your permission before a site sets non-essential cookies. Because we do not set any — no analytics, no preferences, no advertising — there is nothing for you to accept or reject, and showing a banner anyway would be theatre rather than protection. A banner is the right tool when there is a real choice to make; here there is not, so we have not added one. If that changes, the banner will appear before any non-essential cookie is set, not after.
6. If we add analytics later
We may one day want to understand how the site is used. If we do, we will choose the most privacy-respecting option available and, crucially, ask for your consent before any non-essential cookie loads — through a clear banner where accepting and rejecting are equally easy, with no pre-ticked boxes and no penalty for declining. You would be able to withdraw consent as easily as you gave it. When that day comes, this section will describe exactly what we added and why.
7. How to control cookies
You are always in charge of cookies in your browser, regardless of any site. You can see what is stored, delete it, and block cookies — all of them, or just third-party ones — from your browser settings. Each major browser documents how:
Many browsers also send a Global Privacy Control signal, which we honour. Blocking strictly necessary cookies, if your host sets any, may affect how the site works; blocking everything else will not affect this site at all, since we do not rely on it.
8. The legal basis
In Europe, cookies are governed by the ePrivacy Directive working alongside the GDPR: the Directive says when consent is needed to store or read information on your device, and the GDPR defines what valid consent looks like. Strictly necessary cookies are exempt from consent; everything else needs prior, informed, freely given opt-in. The proposed ePrivacy Regulation that would have replaced the Directive was withdrawn in early 2025, so the Directive remains the law that applies. These rules reach any site that offers services to people in the EU, wherever the site is based, which is why we follow them.
9. Other technologies
Separately from cookies, our web server keeps basic logs when a page is requested — the kind of technical record almost any server keeps to stay secure and working. Those logs are not cookies and are not used to track you; how we handle them is explained in our Privacy Policy.
10. Changes to this policy
If our use of cookies changes — most likely if we add analytics — we will update this page and revise the “last updated” date, and we will put any required consent mechanism in place before the change takes effect. The version in force is always the one published here.
11. More information
For how we handle personal data generally, see our Privacy Policy; for the terms that govern the site, see our Terms of Service. Any question about cookies can go to [email protected] or through our contact page.
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