To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?
We used to use cookies through Google Analytics (they explain their own use of cookies here). Those are first-party cookies and don’t identify you as a user. However, we aren’t using Google Analytics right now. We also use WordPress, which uses cookies to verify whether a user is logged in (but you can’t log in in this website, so unless you’re trying to hack into the author’s account that shouldn’t be a problem) and also gives you some cookies when you comment. WordPress says:
When visitors comment on your blog, they too get cookies stored on their computer. This is purely a convenience, so that the visitor won’t need to re-type all their information again when they want to leave another comment. Three cookies are set for commenters:
comment_author_{HASH}comment_author_email_{HASH}comment_author_url_{HASH}The commenter cookies are set to expire a little under one year from the time they’re set.
(Found here.)
If you keep using this site, we understand that you’re fine with this.
Here, have a cookie. It’s a chocolate one!
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, the EU tells you to go to aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
