Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information a website stores in your browser. Browsers have other ways to store information too, such as local storage. This page covers all of them, and calls them cookies for short.

Only your own choices from the settings panel in the corner of the page. They are saved in your browser’s local storage, so the site looks the same the next time you visit.

• savedTheme. Light, dark or your system’s setting.
• savedLayout. The column layout you picked.
• savedSounds. Whether sounds are on.
• savedMotion. Whether animations are on.

Each one is saved only when you change that setting, and stays until you clear your browser’s data. They never leave your browser, and I never see them.

Cloudflare hosts this site and protects it.

• To tell people from bots, Cloudflare may set a security cookie, such as __cf_bm or _cfuvid. It is strictly necessary and used only for security. Cloudflare sets it to expire on its own, within a day or at the end of your visit.
• The contact form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to check that a person is sending it. It runs only on the contact page and is used only to protect the form.
• Visits are counted with Cloudflare Web Analytics. It uses no cookies and no local storage, and does not identify you. I see totals, such as how many people read a page, never who.

Every video on this site is embedded in YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode, from youtube-nocookie.com, and nothing is loaded from YouTube’s main site. On the front page a video loads only when you press play. On a podcast episode page the player loads with the page, and the timestamps on that page control the same player without loading anything more.

In this mode YouTube says it sets no cookies until you play a video, though the player may store some information in your browser when it loads. Once you press play, YouTube’s own cookie policy (opens in a new tab) applies.

• No Google Analytics, and no other analytics that uses cookies.
• No advertising cookies, no retargeting and no social media pixels.
• Nothing that follows you from this site to others.

If that ever changes, I will update this page first, and ask for your consent with a clear choice before anything of the kind is stored.

EU rules require consent for storing anything in your browser that is not strictly needed for what you asked for. Your own settings and Cloudflare’s security cookie are needed for exactly that, and the visit counting stores nothing at all. So there is nothing to ask you about.

Your settings are kept in local storage, not in a cookie, and nothing on the site deletes them. They stay until you remove them.

• To change one, pick another option in the settings panel. The new choice replaces the old one.
• To remove them all, clear this site’s data in your browser. In most browsers it is in the privacy settings, under cookies and site data, and it clears local storage too.
• To stop them being saved, block cookies and site data for this site. The site works the same, it just won’t remember your settings, so you will set them again on each visit.

The privacy policy covers everything else: what I collect when you contact me, who handles it and your rights. Questions go through the contact form.