Cookie notice · published 5 November 2026

Cookie Policy

This page explains what cookies are, which categories this website uses, and how you can control them. It belongs with the privacy policy, which covers how we handle information more broadly.

Reading time is short. If you only need one thing from this page, it is the consent section below and the browser controls at the end.

On this page

What cookies are
Categories we use
Consent
Managing cookies in your browser
Third-party cookies
Retention
Changes to this policy
Contact

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They allow the site to remember information between pages or between visits, such as your preferences or whether you have already seen a notice.

A cookie is not a program and it cannot read files on your device. It holds a short label that a site can look up later, which is why the same site can greet you as a returning reader without asking the same question twice.

This site also uses a small amount of local storage in the same way, so the word cookie on this page covers both unless stated otherwise.

Categories we use

Two categories cover everything running on this site. If a new one is ever added, this page changes first.

Strictly necessary

These keep the site working, for example by remembering form state or your cookie choices. They are set when you load a page and cannot be switched off through our notice, because without them parts of the site would forget what you just did.

Set by us. Cannot be turned off in the notice. Usually cleared when you close your browser, unless they hold a preference.

Analytics, where enabled

These help us understand aggregate traffic patterns: which pages get read, where readers arrive from, and where a page loses people. They are switched on only after you agree, and you can withdraw that agreement later.

Set after consent. Reported in aggregate. Never used to build advertising profiles of individual visitors on this site.

We do not use cookies to build advertising profiles of individual visitors on this site, and we do not sell information gathered through cookies. If that ever changes, this page and the notice you see on your first visit change with it.

Consent

Non-essential cookies are set only after you agree through the notice shown on your first visit. You can change or withdraw that choice at any time using the controls provided or your browser settings.

Before you choose

The notice appears on your first visit. Until you answer, only strictly necessary cookies are set.

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When you agree

Your answer is stored so the notice does not reappear on every page. Analytics, where enabled, starts from that point.

2
Changing your mind

Reopen the notice from the controls on the site, or clear cookies in your browser. Withdrawing is as easy as agreeing.

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Managing cookies in your browser

Most browsers let you view, block, and delete cookies. Blocking all cookies may affect how parts of this site function — form state and your saved cookie choice are the first things to go. Instructions are available in your browser's help section, usually under a privacy or site-data heading.

View — open your browser's cookie or site-data list to see what this site has stored and when it expires.
Block — you can refuse a whole category or a single site. Strictly necessary cookies blocked here will make parts of the page behave oddly.
Delete — clearing stored cookies resets your answer, so the notice will ask again on your next visit.

Third-party cookies

If analytics or embedded content from another provider is present, that provider may set its own cookies. We choose providers that limit data collection to what is needed for the job, and their own policies govern what they store and for how long.

If you would rather not accept those, block third-party cookies in your browser before you continue reading. The pages here stay usable either way.

Retention

Cookie lifetimes vary by type. Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain for a defined period, after which they are removed or stop being valid — your saved consent choice is one of these, so the notice does not return every visit.

Session

Ends when you close the browser window.

Persistent

Holds for a set period, then expires or stops being read.

This site keeps one blank strip under every note, in case something needs correcting later.

Cookie lists go stale quietly. When the cookies running here change, this page is the first thing we rewrite, and the version published here is the one currently in effect.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy if the cookies used on the site change. The version published here is the one currently in effect, and the date at the top of this page moves whenever the wording does. If a change affects what you agreed to, the notice will ask you again.