The short version: this website sets no analytics, advertising or tracking cookies. If you are simply reading these pages, your browser will normally receive no cookie from us at all. The only cookies that exist are strictly necessary ones that WordPress sets for people who log in to the site or leave a comment. That is why you will not see a cookie consent banner here — there is nothing to consent to.
Before publishing: the highlighted passages need confirmation from the business. This page was written against the site as it is built today; if a marketing, analytics or chat tool is added later, this page must be updated and a consent mechanism introduced first. Nothing here is legal advice.
1. What Cookies Are
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. When you return to the site, or move between its pages, the browser sends the cookie back, which lets the site recognise the request.
Cookies are described in a few different ways, and the distinctions matter for the rest of this page:
- First-party cookies are set by the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies are set by a different domain whose content is embedded in the page, such as an advertising network or an embedded video player.
- Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies stay on your device until they expire or you delete them.
- Strictly necessary cookies are needed for a site to function and for a service you have asked for. Everything else — analytics, personalisation, advertising — is non-essential and, in many jurisdictions, requires your consent before it is set.
Cookies cannot run programs or carry viruses, and they cannot read other files on your device.
2. Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies for one reason only: to make the parts of the site that require a signed-in session work correctly, and to honour a preference you have explicitly asked us to remember.
We do not use cookies to:
- count visitors or measure how pages perform;
- record your journey through the site, your clicks or your scrolling;
- build a profile of your interests;
- show you advertising here or anywhere else; or
- recognise you across other websites.
This is a deliberate choice about how the site is built, not an oversight. Our Privacy Policy explains the small amount of information we do process.
3. Types of Cookies
The table below summarises the standard categories and states plainly which of them apply to this website.
| Category | Purpose | Used here? |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | Required for core functions such as signing in and security. | Yes — but only for people who log in or comment. See section 4. |
| Functional | Remember choices you have made, such as a saved preference. | Only in the limited cases described in section 5. |
| Analytics | Measure traffic and how the site is used. | No. See section 6. |
| Marketing | Track visitors to show targeted advertising. | No. See section 7. |
4. Essential Cookies
This site runs on WordPress, which sets a small number of strictly necessary cookies. None of them is set when an ordinary visitor simply reads a page. They appear only in response to a specific action: signing in to the administration area, leaving a comment, or entering a password for a protected page.
| Cookie | Purpose | When it is set | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
wordpress_test_cookie |
Checks whether the browser accepts cookies before attempting to sign in. | On loading the login page. | Session |
wordpress_<hash> |
Authenticates a signed-in user within the administration area. | On signing in. | Session, or up to 14 days with “Remember Me”. |
wordpress_logged_in_<hash> |
Indicates that a user is signed in and identifies who they are. | On signing in. | Session, or up to 14 days with “Remember Me”. |
wp-settings-<id>, wp-settings-time-<id> |
Remembers an administrator’s interface preferences, such as screen layout. | On using the administration area. | 1 year |
wp-postpass_<hash> |
Grants access to an individual password-protected page or post. | On entering a correct page password. | 10 days |
These cookies are exempt from the consent requirement in the UK, the EU and comparable regimes because they are strictly necessary to provide a service you have specifically requested. Blocking them will prevent signing in from working, but will not affect your ability to read the public pages.
5. Functional Cookies
We do not use functional cookies to remember site preferences such as a theme, language or region, because the site does not offer those choices.
There is one narrow case in which WordPress sets persistent cookies of a functional character. If commenting is enabled on an article and you leave a comment, WordPress offers a checkbox reading “Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment”. If — and only if — you tick it, three cookies are set so that the form is pre-filled next time.
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
comment_author_<hash> |
Remembers the name you commented under. | 1 year |
comment_author_email_<hash> |
Remembers the email address you commented with. | 1 year |
comment_author_url_<hash> |
Remembers the website address you supplied, if any. | 1 year |
Because these are set only when you actively tick the box, they are set with your consent, and leaving the box unticked means no cookie is stored.
[BUSINESS TO CONFIRM: whether comments should be enabled at all. WordPress is currently configured to allow comments on new posts by default. If you do not intend to accept comments, disabling them under Settings → Discussion removes this category of cookie entirely, and this section can then be simplified.]
6. Analytics Cookies
This website sets no analytics cookies, because it runs no analytics software.
Specifically, there is no Google Analytics, no Google Tag Manager container, no Matomo, Plausible, Fathom or other measurement platform, and no session-recording or heatmap tool such as Hotjar or Microsoft Clarity. No _ga, _gid, _gat or equivalent cookie is created by this site.
We have basic operational visibility through standard web server logs, which are generated by the hosting infrastructure and do not involve cookies. Section 4.1 of our Privacy Policy describes those logs.
7. Marketing Cookies
This website sets no marketing, advertising or retargeting cookies.
There is no Meta pixel, no LinkedIn Insight Tag, no Google Ads conversion or remarketing tag, no TikTok or X pixel, and no affiliate tracking. We do not participate in any advertising network on this site, we do not build advertising audiences from visitors, and we do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising.
If we ever introduce advertising technology, we will update this page and implement a consent mechanism before any such cookie is set for visitors in jurisdictions that require it.
8. Third-Party Cookies
A third-party cookie is one set by a domain other than this one. This website embeds no third-party content that sets cookies: there are no YouTube or Vimeo players, no Google Maps frames, no social media feeds or share widgets, no live chat, and no embedded forms.
8.1 Google Fonts
The one external request the site makes is for the Poppins typeface, which is loaded from Google Fonts at fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com.
Google Fonts does not set cookies. However, because your browser fetches the font files directly from Google’s servers, Google receives your IP address, your browser’s user agent string, and the address of the page you are viewing. That is a data transfer rather than a cookie, but we mention it here because it is the only way this site causes your browser to contact another company. It is covered in section 11 of our Privacy Policy.
If you would rather avoid that request, a browser extension that blocks third-party font loading will stop it, and the site will render in a fallback typeface without any loss of function.
8.2 Links to other websites
Following a link from this site to another website — a social media profile, a partner site, or one of our pages on another domain — takes you outside our control. That website may set its own cookies under its own policy. We are not responsible for those cookies, and you should review the policy of any site you visit.
9. Other Storage Technologies
Cookies are not the only way a site can store data in your browser, so for completeness:
- Local storage and session storage. Not used. The site writes nothing to either.
- IndexedDB. Not used.
- Web beacons and tracking pixels. Not used. There are no invisible tracking images in our pages or in email we send from this site.
- Device fingerprinting. Not used. We make no attempt to identify your device by its configuration.
- Browser cache. Your browser caches our stylesheets, scripts, fonts and images so pages load faster on a return visit. This is ordinary browser behaviour, holds no information about you, and is cleared whenever you clear your browsing data.
10. Managing Cookies
Because we set no non-essential cookies, there is no preference centre or consent banner on this site — there would be nothing for it to control. You remain in full control through your browser.
You can set your browser to refuse all cookies, to accept only first-party cookies, to warn you before a cookie is stored, or to delete cookies when you close it. You can also delete cookies already stored at any time.
Please note that if you block all cookies you will not be able to sign in to the site’s administration area, and if you are an administrator your interface preferences will not be remembered. Reading the public pages is unaffected.
The browser “Do Not Track” and Global Privacy Control signals are respected by default here in the sense that we do not track visitors in the first place, so there is no behaviour for either signal to change.
11. Browser Controls
Each browser manages cookies slightly differently. The official instructions are linked below; settings are typically found under Privacy or Security.
Most browsers also offer a private or incognito mode, which discards cookies and site data when the window is closed. General guidance on cookies is available at allaboutcookies.org.
These links point to websites we do not control, and their content may change.
12. Changes to This Policy
We will update this page whenever the cookies or storage technologies used by this website change. The “Last updated” date at the top shows the most recent revision.
We treat this as a commitment about sequence, not just content: this page will be updated, and where the law requires it a consent mechanism will be in place, before any non-essential cookie is introduced — not afterwards.
13. Contact Information
If you have a question about cookies on this website, or you believe a cookie is being set that is not described here, please tell us using the details below. We would genuinely like to know.