[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":161},["ShallowReactive",2],{"legal:/legal/cookies":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":12,"effectiveAt":152,"extension":153,"meta":154,"navigation":155,"order":141,"path":156,"seo":157,"standfirst":158,"stem":159,"__hash__":160},"legal/legal/cookies.md","Cookies",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":139},"minimark",[9,13,18,21,31,34,38,41,46,53,73,77,83,97,100,104,110,114,120,123,127,130],[10,11,12],"p",{},"A cookie is a small piece of text a site asks your browser to keep and hand\nback on the next request. Most of what follows is about scripts rather than\ncookies as such, because a script that reports your visit to a third party is\nthe thing worth deciding about, whether or not it stores anything on your\ndevice.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"what-is-set-before-you-decide","What is set before you decide",[10,19,20],{},"One cookie, and only after you answer the banner.",[10,22,23,30],{},[24,25,26],"strong",{},[27,28,29],"code",{},"unpolished_consent"," holds your answer, and nothing else: which categories\nyou allowed, and the version of the banner you answered. It is set by this\nsite, is read only by this site, and expires after six months, at which point\nthe banner asks again. No script is loaded on the strength of it and no third\nparty ever sees it.",[10,32,33],{},"Until you answer, nothing is stored at all. Closing the banner without\nanswering is a refusal, and refusing costs you nothing: every page reads the\nsame either way.",[14,35,37],{"id":36},"what-is-set-once-you-accept","What is set once you accept",[10,39,40],{},"Accepting loads three scripts. Each is separately switchable in the cookie\nsettings, reachable from the footer of any page.",[42,43,45],"h3",{"id":44},"google-analytics-4","Google Analytics 4",[10,47,48,49,52],{},"Loaded from ",[27,50,51],{},"googletagmanager.com",". It measures which pages are read and how\nreaders arrive.",[54,55,56,63],"ul",{},[57,58,59,62],"li",{},[27,60,61],{},"_ga"," recognises a returning browser. It lasts two years.",[57,64,65,68,69,72],{},[27,66,67],{},"_ga_"," followed by this property's measurement id without its ",[27,70,71],{},"G-"," prefix\nholds the session state. It lasts two years.",[42,74,76],{"id":75},"microsoft-clarity","Microsoft Clarity",[10,78,48,79,82],{},[27,80,81],{},"clarity.ms",". It records how a page is used, and aggregates that\ninto heatmaps and pointer replays.",[54,84,85,91],{},[57,86,87,90],{},[27,88,89],{},"_clck"," ties this browser to a Clarity user id. It lasts one year.",[57,92,93,96],{},[27,94,95],{},"_clsk"," groups the page views of one visit into a session. It lasts one day.",[10,98,99],{},"Clarity may set further cookies of its own. The list above is the set Microsoft\ndocuments, and it is theirs to change rather than ours; if you want the\nauthoritative version, theirs is the one to read.",[42,101,103],{"id":102},"cloudflare-web-analytics","Cloudflare Web Analytics",[10,105,48,106,109],{},[27,107,108],{},"cloudflareinsights.com",". It counts page views without setting a\ncookie of any kind and without building an identifier for a returning visitor.\nIt sits behind the same gate as the other two regardless, because the point of\nthe gate is the reporting, not the storage.",[14,111,113],{"id":112},"changing-your-mind","Changing your mind",[10,115,116,119],{},[24,117,118],{},"Cookie settings"," in the footer of every page reopens the banner with your\ncurrent answer showing. Turning one off stops it from that moment,\nclears the cookies this site can reach, and reloads the page so nothing already\nloaded keeps running.",[10,121,122],{},"Your browser can do the same job more bluntly, and its settings will let you\nblock or delete cookies for this site or for every site. Doing that will not\nbreak anything here. There is nothing on this site that needs a cookie to work.",[14,124,126],{"id":125},"what-is-not-here","What is not here",[10,128,129],{},"No advertising, no ad network, no conversion pixel, no social embed that\ncarries a tracker, and nothing sold or handed to a data broker. If that\nchanges, this page changes first.",[10,131,132,133,138],{},"Who processes what, on what legal basis, and what rights you have over it is in\n",[134,135,137],"a",{"href":136},"/legal/privacy","Privacy",".",{"title":140,"searchDepth":141,"depth":141,"links":142},"",2,[143,144,150,151],{"id":16,"depth":141,"text":17},{"id":36,"depth":141,"text":37,"children":145},[146,148,149],{"id":44,"depth":147,"text":45},3,{"id":75,"depth":147,"text":76},{"id":102,"depth":147,"text":103},{"id":112,"depth":141,"text":113},{"id":125,"depth":141,"text":126},"2026-08-21","md",{},true,"/legal/cookies",{"title":5,"description":12},"One cookie by default, and it only remembers what you told the banner.","legal/cookies","KKQi8jKWm6Ka3OvOzUSlgs2wOuUoEmTaz5Hlqn-NV78",1787337786876]