Cookie Policy
Last updated: 30 September 2026 · Effective: 30 September 2026
This page lists every cookie and similar browser-storage entry the site uses. For the broader privacy context (legal basis, your rights, international transfers), see our Privacy Policy.
Categories we use
Two categories. We do not run advertising trackers, fingerprinting scripts, social-media beacons, or third-party analytics outside of Google Analytics 4.
1. Strictly necessary
These store small UI-state values entirely in your browser. They are not sent to a server. No legal basis required (ePrivacy Recital 25).
| Name | Storage | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
cookie-consent | localStorage | Remembers whether you accepted or rejected analytics cookies on the consent banner. Both choices are stored the same way, for the same period. | Persistent until you change it via “Cookie settings” or clear it |
top-bar-dismissed | sessionStorage | Remembers that you dismissed the top affiliate banner for this tab. | Tab session |
mobile-bar-dismissed | sessionStorage | Remembers that you dismissed the mobile bottom CTA for this tab. | Tab session |
2. Statistics (Google Analytics 4)
These set actual HTTP cookies and load only after you click Accept on the consent banner. Nothing loads before you choose: until you accept, the site makes no request to Google at all — the Google Analytics script is not downloaded, no measurement is sent and no cookie is written. If you reject or ignore the banner, that stays true on every page.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users (aggregate visitor counts). IP addresses are anonymised (IP-anonymisation enabled). | 2 years |
_ga_P91J9RTDXB (_ga_<container-id>) | Google Analytics | Used to persist session state for the GA4 property G-P91J9RTDXB. | 2 years |
Names, purposes and default expiry times are from Google’s own documentation, [GA4] Cookie usage on websites. Browsers may shorten these lifetimes (Google notes a maximum of 400 days in Chrome and 7 days in Safari if you do not return). We run no ads, so no Google advertising cookies are set and Google’s advertising consent signals stay denied.
Affiliate click tracking
When you click an outbound affiliate link (marked with rel="sponsored"), we send a one-time custom event to GA4 (affiliate_click) containing the partner name and the page you clicked from. This event does not write a cookie. It is sent only if you have accepted analytics cookies; if you rejected them or have not chosen, nothing is sent to Google.
The affiliate network may then write its own attribution cookie when you land on the partner’s site. That is governed by the partner’s own cookie policy, not ours.
How to manage
- Change or withdraw your choice: use “Cookie settings” in the footer of every page (or now) to re-open the consent banner. Withdrawing deletes the
_gaand_ga_P91J9RTDXBcookies from this site and stops Google Analytics from loading. - Browser settings: all major browsers let you block or delete cookies per-site. Chrome — Settings → Privacy → Cookies → See all site data.
- Opt out of GA4 globally: install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Third parties on this site
The page loads content from a small number of third parties:
- Google Tag Manager / GA4 (googletagmanager.com) — only if you accept analytics cookies, wherever you are.
- Cloudflare Pages (the host) — serves the static files. Cloudflare may set a
__cf_bmbot-management cookie at the network edge; this is a strictly necessary cookie under Cloudflare’s own terms.
Questions: see Imprint. Privacy framework: Privacy Policy. Editorial process: Methodology.