Cookie Policy

Current EU law requires a run down of how cookies are used by web-sites in the EU, along with requesting consent to keep any potentially personal data. Although the service I use hosts from the USA (I think), I am not so I figured I’d better catch up and do as close to I ought as I can.

Cookie Monsters

Cookies are little bits of software that track you and your Internet usage. They can be used to gather all sorts of information and form the basis of target online marketing (amongst other things). On this site, they’re only benign little critters that help me to provide things.

The Bestiary

  • This site uses WordPress [External Link]. The WordPress software keeps some very basic information for the comments – your name, email and URL. It can remember these things in order to allow multiple comment posts. Anyone who has not posted before will find their comment takes a while to get through as I have to authorise new posters – which I do based on how “real” the data supplied appears to be.
  • The comments section also makes use of an anti-spam filter, Akismet [External Link], which makes use of cookies to check submitted comments for spam.
  • Rather ironically, my Cookie Notice plug-in uses a cookie to tell whether you’ve been here before and agreed to cookie usage. If you tell it you don’t agree, you should be asked every time as there will be no cookie stored.

Other than this, I avoid keeping any details about you or your visit.

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