What is stored on your device
Cookie Policy
Last updated September 16, 2026 · Highway 19 Media, a Smart Man Media company
The short version. This site uses Google Analytics to count visits, and nothing else. It is not loaded until you accept the banner — decline and it is never fetched at all. No advertising cookie, nothing that follows you to other sites.
What a cookie is
A small file a website asks your browser to keep, so it can recognise something next time — that you are logged in, what you put in a basket, or, in the advertising case, that you are the same person who visited a different site last week.
What this site uses today
One thing: Google Analytics (GA4), which tells us how many people came, which pages they read and roughly where they were. It sets its own cookies to tell a returning visitor from a new one.
There is no advertising cookie, nothing that follows you to other sites, and nothing that tries to work out who you are by name.
You can check this yourself, and we would rather you did than took our word for it: open your browser's developer tools before answering the banner, look under Network, and nothing has been requested from Google. Decline and it stays that way for the whole visit. Accept and you will see it load at that moment — not before.
The one thing the site keeps locally is whichever choice you make on the consent banner, once there is something to consent to. That is stored in your own browser, it never leaves it, and it exists so we do not ask you the same question on every page.
What is coming, and how it will work
We expect to add advertising tools — a Meta pixel and Google Ads conversion tracking are the likely ones — so we can tell which advertising is worth paying for.
They will work the same way Analytics does here, and adding one re-asks you rather than assuming the yes you gave for something else:
- A banner will appear on your first visit, asking.
- Nothing loads until you accept. Decline, or ignore it, and the tracking scripts are never fetched at all — not loaded and switched off, not fetched.
- Accepting or declining is one click each. Neither is hidden behind the other, and the site works the same either way.
- You can change your mind whenever you like — the link at the bottom of any page reopens the choice.
- This page will be updated to list exactly what was added, what it does and how long it lasts, before it goes live.
Cookies we cannot set for you
Our host, Cloudflare, may set a strictly necessary cookie to keep the site up and to tell a person apart from an attack. It carries no advertising identifier and cannot be used to profile you.
Turning them off yourself
Every browser will let you block or delete cookies for a site, and most will let you refuse third-party ones outright. Look under Settings, then Privacy. Doing that will not break anything here.
Browsers also send a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal. We have nothing running that would ignore one.
Questions
Email [email protected]. See also our Privacy Policy.