Cookie notice

On an ordinary visit, no measurement cookies and no advertising cookies. The site does load an analytics tag — Google Analytics 4 — but it loads it in a state that stops it setting any: there is no ad network.

One exception, named here rather than passed over in silence: the gr_int flag, our own exclusion for internal visits, so that our test traffic does not end up in the figures. It is written only when you deliberately open a page with ?internal=1 appended — as a cookie with a lifetime of one year, and additionally in local storage — and the measurement code reads it on every page view. On an ordinary visit nothing is written, and nothing on this site links to it. It holds a single flag and nothing about you; you delete it by clearing this site’s data in your browser.

Your browser may keep one technical preference about the language banner, so it is not shown again on every page of the same session. That is local to your device and is not transmitted.

The tag loads after a Consent Mode v2 block that sets every storage signal to denied, for every visitor, with no regional exception. In that state Google Analytics runs cookieless: it sends aggregated counts and writes nothing to your device. The only thing this site writes there is the gr_int flag described above, and only if you ask for it.

There is no interface anywhere on this site that could change that state, so the denial is not an opening position waiting for a choice — it is the permanent condition the tag works in.

Consent is required for storing information on a reader's device or accessing information already stored there. On an ordinary visit no such storage happens, so there is no consent to ask for, and asking anyway would be theatre. The one thing the site does read on every page view is its own gr_int flag, described above, and it writes it only if you ask for it.

There is no consent to withdraw, because none was given and on an ordinary visit nothing is stored. You can still stop the request outright: block Google's domains in your browser's settings or extensions, or install the opt-out add-on Google itself publishes. Technical preferences kept by the browser are cleared from the browser's own settings.