The policies

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a site. They let it remember preferences and understand how it is being used.

Four mechanisms are in use here, and “cookie” below is shorthand for all of them:

• browser cookies — small text files;
• local storage — client-side data that persists;
• session storage — the same, discarded when the tab closes;
• web beacons and pixels — tracking images.

How they are used

Essential functionality

Theme preferences (appearance, accent, radius, density, type scale, typeface, surface, motion, sound), language, and session management.

Analytics and performance

Understanding how visitors move through the site, measuring page performance, and finding which content is worth keeping.

Error tracking

Capturing and diagnosing technical faults so they can be fixed.

The cookies themselves

Strictly necessary cookies hold nothing that identifies you — they hold the appearance settings you chose, so the site does not reset itself every visit.

Third-party cookies

• Google Analytics 4 — Google LLC. Site analytics and behaviour.
• Microsoft Clarity — Microsoft Corporation. Session recordings and heatmaps.
• Amplitude — Amplitude Inc. Product analytics and funnels.

Each operates under its own privacy policy, which governs what it does with what it collects.

Managing cookies

Browser settings

Every major browser can block or delete cookies. Blocking the strictly necessary ones will reset your appearance settings on every visit; blocking the rest changes nothing you can see.

Where to find the setting

• Chrome — Settings, Privacy and security, Third-party cookies
• Firefox — Settings, Privacy & Security, Cookies and Site Data
• Safari — Settings, Privacy
• Edge — Settings, Cookies and site permissions

Analytics opt-out

Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Analytics everywhere. Browser “do not track” signals are also honoured.

Contact

Questions about cookies: aoneahsan@gmail.com.