Cookies
Cookie policy
This site's own code sets no cookies. Cloudflare, which delivers and protects the site, can set the two security cookies listed below. Analytics and advertising cookies can appear only if those tags are switched on and you accept them. This page lists each one.
Draft pending legal review
In short
- Strictly necessary: we save your privacy choices in your browser's local storage. That is not a cookie and is never sent to a server.
- Strictly necessary, from Cloudflare:
__cf_bmandcf_clearancecan be set when Cloudflare's bot protection checks a visit or asks for a security challenge. They keep the site secure and available, so declining analytics or advertising does not delete them. - Analytics: on, and used only after you click Accept, wherever you are.
- Advertising: off today, so no advertising cookie is set.
Cookies and storage we use
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Category | When it appears |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
__cf_bm | Cloudflare | Bot protection: helps tell human visits from automated traffic so the site stays available. | About 30 minutes | Strictly necessary | Can be set by Cloudflare when its bot protection checks a visit, before any choice |
cf_clearance | Cloudflare | Remembers that a visit passed a Cloudflare security challenge, so it is not asked again straight away. | Set by Cloudflare, see its documentation | Strictly necessary | Can be set by Cloudflare after a security challenge, before any choice |
_ga | Google Analytics 4 | Tells visits from different browsers apart so page views can be counted. | 2 years | Analytics | Set only if you allow analytics |
_ga_P8G8C97NFH | Google Analytics 4 | Keeps session state so one visit is not counted as several. | 2 years | Analytics | Set only if you allow analytics |
_gid, _gat | Google Analytics (older tags) | Older analytics cookies. Current GA4 tags do not set them; we still delete them on decline in case they exist. | 1 minute to 24 hours | Analytics | Set only if you allow analytics |
_gcl_* | Google Ads and Analytics | Stores ad click information for conversion measurement. Not used with the current setup; deleted on decline. | Up to 90 days | Advertising | Not set today: advertising is off |
__gads, __gpi | Google AdSense | Serve and measure ads, limit repeats and detect fraud. Set only if advertising is accepted and ads are live. | Set by Google, see its documentation | Advertising | Not set today: advertising is off |
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Category | When it appears |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ds-consent | This site | Remembers your analytics and advertising choices. | 13 months, then we ask again | Strictly necessary | After you make a choice or opt out, or your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal |
ds-optout | This site | Remembers that you opted out of sale or sharing of personal information, including when your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. | Until you clear site data or switch it off | Strictly necessary | After you make a choice or opt out, or your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal |
Change your choice
Use the "Privacy choices" link in the footer of any page to reopen the controls, or go to your privacy choices. If you decline, or switch a category off later, we delete the matching cookies from this site and its parent domain; the Cloudflare security cookies stay. Nothing in the analytics or advertising categories is set before you agree, wherever you are.
Global Privacy Control
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as an opt-out of sale or sharing and save that opt-out on your device: advertising stays off even if you choose "Accept all". Analytics never starts for anyone before they click Accept. The privacy choices page shows whether your browser is sending the signal.
Opt out elsewhere
- Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on
- Google Ads settings
- aboutads.info (United States) and youronlinechoices.eu (Europe)
See also our privacy policy.