Cookie Policy

Last updated: September 8, 2026

1. What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

3. The Cookies We Set

Account related cookies: If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration.
Login related cookies: We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page.
Newsletter emailing related cookies: This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered.
Consent choice: We store whether you accepted or declined optional analytics so that we can respect your choice.
Reading analytics: After you accept analytics, we store a random browser identifier in local storage. It helps us estimate unique and returning readers and understand active reading time, completion, referral hostnames, countries, devices and languages. We do not store raw IP addresses or full referring URLs in these analytics records.

4. Third Party Cookies

Our detailed reading analytics are first-party and separate from Google Analytics. If Google Analytics is configured, it loads only after analytics consent and may set its own cookies to help us understand general site usage. Other embedded or account-related services may also set cookies when you use those features; their notices describe their processing.

5. More Information

You can decline optional analytics without losing access to published posts and stories. You can also clear this site's cookies and local storage in your browser to remove the saved consent choice and random browser identifier.