Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small file that a site asks your browser to keep and send back on later requests. Local storage and session storage are related browser features that hold data on your device without attaching it to every request automatically.

This policy covers all three. Where it says “cookies”, read it as “cookies and equivalent browser storage” — the difference matters technically, but not to the choices available to you.

Storage is either strictly necessary, meaning the site cannot do what you asked without it, or it is optional. Everything that is not strictly necessary is treated as optional here.

There are two surfaces, and they use storage very differently.

• This marketing site is a reading surface. It does not need to know who you are, and it does not set storage in order to identify you.
• The signed-in platform cannot work without storage. Staying signed in across page loads requires a session, and a session requires something held on your device.

So if you block storage, you can still read these pages, but you will not be able to remain signed in to the platform. That is a consequence of how sessions work, not a choice we made to pressure you.

These are described by what they do rather than by name. Names and exact lifetimes are implementation details that change with the version of the service you are using, and a list of literal names published on this page would be wrong within a release or two.

Analytics storage, where it is used, exists to answer aggregate questions: which pages get read, where people give up, whether a rewritten page reads more clearly than the one it replaced. None of that is needed for the site to function, so it is optional.

Two commitments apply to it.

• It is not set before consent where consent is required. Where the law that applies to you requires consent before optional storage is set, consent is asked for first, and declining leaves the site fully usable — nothing on these pages is gated behind accepting analytics.
• It is aggregate. Analytics is used to understand how pages perform, not to identify you and not to follow you to other sites.

This section is deliberately conditional. Rather than name a tool on a page that is rewritten far less often than the stack behind it, the position stated here is the one that holds regardless of tool: no optional storage is set without the consent the applicable law requires. You can withdraw consent by clearing this site’s data in your browser and declining when you are next asked.

What happens to information collected about you, as opposed to what is stored on your device, is covered by our Privacy Policy.

This site, as built, sets no third-party advertising cookies. Specifically, there are:

• no ad-network or retargeting tags;
• no cookies used to follow you across other sites;
• no sale or sharing of browser data for advertising purposes;
• no advertising profile assembled from what you read here.

If that position ever changes, this page changes with it, and consent would be requested before any such storage was set.

The controls live in your browser, not on this site. Every current browser lets you:

• see what a site has stored, and delete it;
• block storage for one site, or for every site;
• block third-party storage while still allowing first-party storage;
• clear everything automatically when you close the browser.

We do not give click-by-click instructions or name browser versions here, because those menus move and instructions written against one version mislead people running another. The settings sit under the privacy or site-data area of your browser’s settings, and your browser’s own help describes them accurately for the version you are actually running.

What to expect if you block or clear storage:

• These marketing pages keep working normally.
• Signing in stops working, or you are signed out again on every page load.
• Preferences revert, so dismissed notices reappear and view choices reset.
• Clearing site data also withdraws any consent you had given, and you will be asked again.

Last reviewed: not yet reviewed by legal counsel — see the notice at the top of this page.

This policy is versioned with the service rather than dated. The version you are reading is the current version; when the service changes in a way that affects it, the text on this page changes with it. There is no effective date printed here, and that is deliberate: a date on an unreviewed draft would imply an approval that has not happened.

When a final, counsel-reviewed version is published, material changes will be communicated through the service or to account contacts before they take effect, and the draft notice at the top of this page will be removed.

Ask through the contact form. If your question is about what happens to information once it reaches us rather than what is stored on your device, the Privacy Policy is the document that answers it.

Read alongside our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.