This site stores one item by default: a record of your cookie choice, so you are not asked again on every page. Analytics load only if you switch them on, and the toggle is off until you do. There is no advertising, no retargeting, no session recording and nothing loaded from a third-party domain.
The consent banner offers all four so their status is verifiable rather than merely asserted. Two of them currently control nothing.
| Category | Status | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Always active | One local-storage entry recording your choice. Not sent anywhere, and switching it off would break the mechanism that remembers you switched it off |
| Functional | Not currently used | Would remember preferences such as a filter selection. Nothing on this site uses it; the toggle exists so anything added later arrives switched off |
| Analytics | Optional, off by default | Page views and approximate region, so we know which content is useful |
| Marketing | Not currently used | Would cover advertising and retargeting. Faststream runs none, and this site loads nothing from an advertising network |
| Name | Type | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fs_consent | Local storage | Necessary | Your category choices, when you made them and when they expire | 12 months, then you are asked again |
| Analytics provider cookie | Cookie | Analytics | Page views and approximate region. Loaded only after you accept | Up to 26 months |
That is the entire list. No advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no session recording, no chat widget, no social embeds, no third-party fonts. Nothing on this site loads from a third-party domain unless you accept analytics.
Withdrawing consent has to be as easy as giving it, so it is the same one click in the same place.
That button is also permanently in the footer of every page, labelled Cookie settings. It opens the same panel whether you are accepting for the first time or reversing a decision made a year ago.
Regulators expect an organisation to be able to demonstrate that consent was obtained. So when a choice is made, an anonymous record is logged: the timestamp, which categories were granted, how the choice was made, and which page the banner was answered on.
No IP address is stored. No user agent, no identifier, no cookie linking the record to you. It is enough to show the mechanism works and produces the pattern of choices it should, and not enough to re-identify anyone — which is the correct trade for an audit record and, we would argue, the only defensible one.
This means we can answer an auditor asking whether consent is genuinely optional, and we cannot answer anyone asking what you personally chose. Both of those are intentional.
Most business websites carry a dozen or more third-party scripts — advertising, retargeting, session recording, chat widgets, social embeds, hosted fonts — each of which sees every visitor and each of which has to be disclosed here.
This site carries none of them. It is faster as a result, it loads nothing from a third-party domain by default, and there is correspondingly little to declare. That is easier to explain than a longer list would be to justify.
No. There are no advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no session recording, no chat widget, no social media embeds and no third-party fonts. Nothing loads from a third-party domain unless you accept analytics.
Use the Cookie settings link in the footer of any page, or the button on this page. It opens the same panel whether you are choosing for the first time or reversing a decision. Withdrawal is one click, the same as consent.
Nothing loads and nothing is recorded. No content is gated behind consent, so the site behaves identically.
Yes, after 12 months, at which point the banner returns. Consent given indefinitely stops being meaningful, and re-asking annually is the accepted practice.
Yes, automatically. If your browser sends the GPC signal, optional categories are declined and no banner is shown, because you have already expressed a preference and asking again would be asking twice.
An anonymous one — the timestamp, which categories were granted, how the choice was made and which page it was made on. No IP address, no user agent and no identifier. It demonstrates the mechanism works without allowing anyone to be re-identified.
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