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Last reviewed 27 July 2026. Written to be read rather than to be survived — if any of it is unclear, tell us and we will rewrite the paragraph.
The short version
One local-storage entry, set only when you dismiss the cookie notice, so the notice stays dismissed. No advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking, no analytics profile.
Clearing it
Clear your browser's site data for this domain and the notice comes back.
Fonts
Typefaces load from Google Fonts, which involves a request to Google's servers from your browser.
Why this page is so short
Most cookie policies are long because most sites run advertising and analytics. This one runs neither, so there is very little to describe — but the little there is deserves to be described precisely rather than hidden behind a banner.
What is actually stored
One entry in your browser's local storage, named for this site, set only at the moment you press the dismiss button on the cookie notice. Its value is a single character. Its only purpose is to stop the notice reappearing on the next page you open. It contains nothing about you, it is never sent to our server, and it is readable only by this domain.
What is not stored
No advertising identifiers. No cross-site tracking. No analytics cookie. No session cookie — the site is static and has no sessions to keep. No third-party cookie of any kind is set by us.
Fonts and what that means
Typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to Google's servers to fetch the font files. That request carries your IP address and user agent the way any web request does, and it is governed by Google's own policies rather than ours. If you block third-party font loading, the site falls back to your system fonts and remains fully readable — the layout is built to survive it.
Images and other assets
Photographs, stylesheets, scripts and the site's SVG artwork are all served from this domain. There is no image CDN, no video embed and no social embed anywhere on the site, so no third party is contacted to render a page beyond the font request described above.
How to clear it
Clear site data for this domain in your browser settings and the notice returns on your next visit. Using private browsing has the same effect at the end of the session. Neither action breaks anything: nothing on this site depends on that stored value except the notice itself.
If your organisation needs a formal statement
You may treat this page as our full cookie disclosure. If a compliance team needs it in a particular format, write to us and we will provide it — the underlying facts will be exactly the ones above.
Why we show a notice at all
Strictly, a single functional local-storage entry set by your own action does not require a consent banner. We show a short notice anyway, for one reason: readers have been trained to assume that a site with no notice is hiding something. The notice is there to say plainly that there is nothing to consent to, and then to get out of the way permanently once you dismiss it.
What the notice does not do
It does not gate the content — every page is fully readable whether you dismiss it or ignore it. It does not toggle any tracking on or off, because there is none to toggle. It does not record that you saw it anywhere except in your own browser. And it never reappears on the same browser unless you clear your site data.
Local storage versus cookies, since the distinction matters
A cookie is sent to the server with every request; local storage is not sent anywhere at all unless a script deliberately transmits it. We use local storage precisely because it never reaches us. In practical terms that means our server never learns whether you dismissed the notice — only your own browser knows.
Third-party requests, listed in full
For completeness, here is every external request a page on this site can make: two connections to Google's font hosts to fetch the typefaces. That is the entire list. No analytics endpoint, no advertising exchange, no tag manager, no embedded video, no social widget, no map tile, no comment platform, no error-reporting service.
Verifying all of this yourself
Open your browser's developer tools, go to the storage or application panel, and look at this domain. You will find local storage containing at most one short entry, set after you dismiss the notice, and no cookies at all. In the network panel you will see requests for this site's own HTML, CSS, images and one small script, plus two requests to Google's font hosts.
We would rather you checked than believed us. Everything on this site is built to be verifiable — company facts link back to the page they were read from, rankings state the criteria behind them, and this page describes something you can confirm in your own browser in under a minute.
How this page relates to the rest of the site
Our editorial standards — what we verify, what we refuse to publish and how corrections work — are set out separately in the editorial policy, and the criteria behind every ranking are on how we rank. Our commercial interest is declared on the about page, and our lack of any connection to Ad 2 Hawaiʻi is stated in full on the non-affiliation statement. Between those four pages and this one, there should be nothing about how this site operates that you have to guess at.
Questions about this page
If a compliance process needs something this page does not cover, ask and we will answer specifically rather than in boilerplate. The underlying position is simple enough to restate in any format: one functional local-storage entry set by your own action, no cookies, no analytics, no advertising, and two font requests to Google.