Cookies

This cookie policy explains how I use cookies on my Website.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites store in your web browser (if you agree) when you visit them. They serve as a memory for those websites, helping to improve your browsing experience in several ways:

Essential cookies enable basic website functions, like keeping you logged in or remembering items in your shopping cart
Performance cookies collect anonymous data about how visitors use the site, helping owners understand and improve their website’s functionality
Preference cookies remember your settings, such as language choice or color theme
Advertising and third party cookies are set by external services, like analytics tools or social media platforms, and can track your activity across different websites

Most modern web browsers allow you to control cookie settings, letting you accept or reject different types of cookies.

How cookies are used on my Website

I store cookies in your web browser only if you agree. When you first visit my Website, you’ll see a cookie consent banner asking for your permission. You can either accept or dismiss this banner:

If you accept, cookies will be stored in your browser
If you dismiss, no cookies will be stored, but the banner will remain visible

Types of cookies used on my Website

Essential cookies

Essential cookies enable basic website functions, like keeping you logged in or remembering items in a shopping cart.

There are currently no essential cookies in use on my Website.

Performance cookies

I use a lightweight, privacy-focused analytics tool that I’ve created myself. This helps me understand how visitors use my Website by collecting basic usage data. The analytics tool uses two cookies:

Cookie Name	Description	Activated	Duration
__mtu	A randomly generated unique ID (UUID v4) used to understand how visitors navigate the Website. If you don’t accept cookies, you’ll be treated as an anonymous user.	When consent is given	365 days
__mtc	A timestamp recording when you gave consent for cookies. Used to track the validity of your consent.	When consent is given	365 days

My analytics tool also uses browser session storage (which is automatically cleared when you close your browser) to temporarily store:

A session ID
Previous page information
Technical performance data

This data helps me understand:

Which pages are most useful to visitors
How visitors navigate through the Website
Whether the Website is performing well technically

All analytics data is:

Collected and processed directly by me
Not shared with any third parties
Used only to improve the Website
Either anonymized or tied to a randomly generated ID

Preferences cookies

Preference cookies remember your personal settings and choices on a website to enhance your browsing experience. These cookies store information like your preferred language, region, text size, color themes, or layout preferences. When you return to the site, these cookies ensure it appears and functions according to your previous customizations. For example, if you set a website to dark mode or selected your local currency for an online store, preference cookies will maintain these settings for your next visit. They help create a more personalized and convenient browsing experience without requiring you to reconfigure your preferences each time.

There are currently no preference cookies in use on my Website.

Advertising and third party cookies

Advertising and third party cookies record your visits to a website, the pages you have visited, the links you have followed and information about your browser, device and your IP address. This information is used to make any advertising displayed on the website you visit more relevant to your interests. This information may also be shared with third parties for this purpose, including advertisers and social media companies who may use online retargeting to show you advertising on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and X based on what you read. For example, you might see adverts related to things mentioned on the website while scrolling through your social media feeds. You can find more information about the individual cookies I use and the purposes for which I use them in the table below including (where applicable) information on how to opt-out of the cookies provided by third parties and social platforms.

There are currently no advertising or third party cookies in use on my website.

You can control cookies in two ways: