Cookie policy
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A cookie is a small file a site leaves in your browser so it can remember something. Some are needed for the site to work, others tell us which pages get read. Here’s everything we use.
What the site remembers on its own
These aren’t tracking cookies, they’re your browser’s own memory, and they never leave your device:
- Your shortlist — the acts you’ve added, so you don’t lose them when you change page.
- Your chosen language — so we don’t ask every time.
They disappear when you clear the site’s data in your browser. We never see them.
Your choice
The first time you visit, we ask. Until you answer, nothing that writes cookies starts up. You can change your mind any time, right here:
What “only essential” means here
On most sites, “only essential” still leaves a few cookies behind — session, basket, login. Here it leaves none: there’s no account, no session and no payment, so there’s no cookie we need to set for the site to work.
What stays is your browser’s own memory, described above — your shortlist and your language. Those aren’t cookies, they never leave your device and they never reach us. Plus the cookie-free measurement below, which identifies nobody.
In short: press “Only essential”, the site works exactly the same, and nothing of ours stays in your browser.
What only starts if you accept
These write cookies and send data to an outside company:
| Who | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics 4 | Counts visits and pages read, so we can see what interests people and what doesn’t. IP is anonymised. | up to 14 months |
| Microsoft Clarity | Shows where people click and where scrolling stalls, so we can fix pages that behave badly on phones. | up to 12 months |
What runs either way
These write no cookies and track no individuals. They count pages read, nothing more — which is why they don’t ask permission, and why declining doesn’t leave us blind:
| Who | Where it lives |
|---|---|
| Plausible | on our own server |
| Umami | on our own server |
| Cloudflare Insights | with the provider hosting the site |
None of them tells us who you are. They tell us that someone read a page and left halfway — useful for fixing the page, useless for identifying you.
What we don’t use
No advertising cookies, no remarketing pixels, no networks that follow you from other sites. We don’t run ads that chase you around, so there’s nothing to install for them.
How to switch them off
Any browser can block or delete them from its settings:
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies
- Safari: Preferences → Privacy
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security
The simplest route stays the “Only essential” button above. If you want a browser-level safety net as well, there’s the Google Analytics opt-out.
If you block everything, the site still works. The only thing that breaks is your shortlist, which stops being remembered between pages.
The rest — about the data you give us yourself — is in the privacy policy.