Legal
Cookie policy
This site doesn't set any. That is the whole policy, but here is the detail.
No cookies, and no banner
Browsing this site sets no cookies on your device. Not analytics cookies, not advertising cookies, not preference cookies, not even the "strictly necessary" sort — there is nothing on these pages that needs to remember you between clicks.
That is why there is no consent banner. A banner that asks permission to do nothing would be theatre.
What that means in practice
- No analytics. I don't run Google Analytics or any equivalent on this site. I don't know how many of you there are or which pages you read.
- No advertising or tracking pixels. Nothing here reports your visit to an advertising network, a social platform or a data broker.
- No embedded video or social widgets. Those are the usual route by which a site that claims not to track you does exactly that.
- No session cookie. The page builder used to build this site can set counting cookies for visitor-session features. Those features aren't used here and the cookies are switched off.
The one request that leaves this server
The typeface, Inter, is served by Google Fonts. Your browser fetches it from a Google server, which sees your IP address in the process. No cookie is set by that request and nothing identifying is sent with it.
It is a real transfer of data to a third party and it would be dishonest not to mention it. If it bothers you, blocking web fonts in your browser will stop it and the site will still read perfectly well.
Server logs are not cookies
The server keeps ordinary access logs — IP address, page requested, time, browser — because that is how you keep a web server running and spot someone attacking it. That is not storage on your device and it is not covered by the cookie rules, but you should know it happens. The privacy policy says what is done with it and how long it is kept.
If this changes
If I ever add analytics or anything else that stores data on your device, I will ask first, properly, with a real choice and a working "no". This page will be updated before it happens rather than after, and the date at the top will say so.
Why this matters to me
I advise other organisations on data protection, including as a named data protection officer. It would be a poor advertisement to run a website that quietly did the opposite. Questions about any of this to hello@mcharg.com.