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Cookie policy

A complete list of what this site stores in your browser. No advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking, and no consent wall.

This site sets very few cookies and none of them advertise to you or follow you elsewhere. What follows is the complete list.

Last updated: 19 August 2026

#What may be stored

Name Type Purpose Lifetime
pw-theme Local storage, not a cookie Remembers whether you chose the light or dark theme Until you clear site data
__cf_bm Cookie, set by Cloudflare Distinguishes humans from automated traffic; part of the security layer About 30 minutes
cf_clearance Cookie, set by Cloudflare Records that a security check has been passed, so you are not asked again Up to one year
wordpress_*, wp-settings-* Cookie Set only if you log in as an editor. Ordinary readers never receive these. Session to one year
comment_author_* Cookie Set only if you post a comment and ask to be remembered Up to one year

#What is deliberately absent

  • No advertising or retargeting cookies.
  • No cross-site tracking pixels.
  • No analytics that profile individuals across sessions.
  • No social media embeds that set cookies before you interact with them.
  • No session recording, heatmaps or scroll tracking.
  • No browser fingerprinting.

Consent is required for cookies that are not strictly necessary. Nothing in the table above is an advertising or profiling cookie. The theme preference is functional and stays on your device; the Cloudflare cookies are necessary to deliver the site securely.

Interrupting every reader with a consent dialogue that has nothing meaningful to consent to would be theatre. If we ever add something that genuinely requires consent, a consent mechanism will appear before it is set, not after.

#Third-party requests

The pages themselves make no third-party requests: fonts, styles, scripts and images are all served from this domain. The only outbound calls happen when you use the free tools, and those are described in the privacy policy.

#Controlling cookies

Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies and clear local storage from its settings, usually under Privacy. Blocking them will not stop you reading this site; you will simply lose the remembered theme choice, and Cloudflare may re-run its security check more often.

#Questions

Write to [email protected].