Cookies
This site sets none. That is the whole policy; the rest of the page is why it is true and what the one exception is.
v1.0Last reviewed . A rebuild is not a review, so this date is written down rather than taken from the clock.
There are none
A cookie is a small piece of text a site asks your browser to keep and hand back on your next request. Sites use them to remember a session, a preference, or — far more often — who you are across the rest of the web.
Nothing on this site asks for one. There is no login, so no session; no analytics, so nothing counting you; and no advertising, so nobody to sell an audience to. The pages are files, rendered before you arrived, and a file cannot set a cookie.
The table, in full
A cookie policy is usually a long table. This is the whole of ours, and one of its two rows is about a thing that only exists after you press a button.
| Set by | Which cookies | When | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| This site | None. | — | There is no analytics, no tag manager and no embedded content in a page as it is served. |
| YouTube | Its own, once a player exists. | Only after you press play on a video. | The player is loaded from youtube-nocookie.com, which does not write one until playback starts. It is still a YouTube page inside this one. |
Storage that is not a cookie
A policy that says "cookies" and means only cookies has left out most of the ways a browser can be made to remember you. All of them, and what this site does with each:
- Cookies
- None are set by this site, on any page, in any circumstance.
- Local and session storage
- Nothing is written. The interactive blocks here — the tabs, the sortable table, the price toggle — forget what you did the moment the page unloads, on purpose. A remembered tab is not worth a stored preference.
- IndexedDB and cache storage
- Unused. There is no service worker and no offline cache, so nothing here installs itself.
- A flag on the page object
- The one thing the scripts do write is a marker on the page's own window object, so that a page holding two galleries does not attach the same behaviour twice. It lives in memory, exists only while the tab is open, and is not storage in any sense a regulator or a browser means.
- Fingerprinting
- None. No canvas, no font enumeration, no device measurement, nothing that would stand in for a cookie by identifying the browser instead of marking it.
Why there is no banner
Consent is required for storing or reading anything on your device that is not strictly necessary for the page you asked for. Nothing here does that, so there is nothing to consent to, and a banner asking anyway would be a dialogue box in front of a page for no reason.
It is worth saying plainly that most banners exist because the site behind them wants the tracking, not because the law wants the banner. Remove the tracking and the banner goes with it.
Not the same thing: No cookies does not mean no requests. Photographs, map tiles and a video still are fetched from other companies' servers, and a server sees your address whether or not it stores anything. Every one of those hosts is named on the privacy page.
The one exception, and how to avoid it
One page here embeds a video. Until you click it, what is in the page is a still image, a play mark and an ordinary link — no player, no iframe, and nothing of YouTube's running. Clicking is what builds the player, and the player is a YouTube page inside this one, loaded from youtube-nocookie.com.
That domain does not write a cookie merely for existing, which is the reason it is used instead of the usual one, but it does once playback starts. Avoiding it entirely is simple: follow the link to watch on YouTube in its own tab, or do not press play.
Removing what a video left
Anything a player stored belongs to YouTube's domain, not to this one, so it is cleared the way any site's data is cleared: in your browser's settings, under site data or cookies, by searching for that domain and deleting it. Every current browser can also block third-party storage outright, which stops this before it starts and costs you nothing here.
If you would like the reasoning behind all of this rather than the rules, the privacy page covers what is held and the terms cover using the site.