Cookies

1. The short version

This website sets no cookies at all. There is no analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixels, no social media buttons that report back, and no third party scripts except the one spam check described in section 4.

That is why you have not been shown a cookie banner. There is nothing to ask you to agree to.

2. What that means in practice

Nothing on this site follows you between pages, builds a profile of you, or tells anybody else that you were here. I do not know who visits this website, how many of you there are, or which pages you read.

That is a deliberate trade. It costs me information about my own site, and it means you do not have to click anything before you can read it.

3. The one technical exception

WordPress, which this site is built on, stores a single flag in your browser’s session storage recording whether your browser can display emoji correctly. It contains no information about you, it is not a cookie, it is not sent to any server, and it is cleared the moment you close the tab.

It is mentioned here for completeness rather than because it needs your consent, which under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations it does not.

4. Things that are not this website

Two things on this site hand you over to somebody else, and both are your choice.

Booking a call takes you to Google Calendar. Google sets its own cookies once you are there, and its privacy policy applies rather than mine.

Emailing me, whether through the form or directly, means your message is handled by Hostinger, who host my mailbox. What happens to it after that is set out in my privacy notice.

5. The spam check on the contact form

The contact form runs a Cloudflare Turnstile check before it will send. It loads a script from challenges.cloudflare.com and it happens on the contact page only, not anywhere else on this site.

Cloudflare may set a short lived cookie as part of that check. It exists to confirm you are a person rather than a bot, not to build a profile of you, and Cloudflare’s own privacy terms apply to it rather than mine.

It is there because without it the form is harvested within days. If you would rather not run it, email me directly at hello@afbdigitalsolutions.co.uk instead and no check is involved.

6. If this ever changes

If I add anything that sets cookies, for example analytics, this page will be updated before it goes live and you will be asked to consent where the law requires it. The date at the top of this page tells you when it last changed.

7. How to check

You do not have to take my word for any of this. Open your browser’s developer tools, look at the Application or Storage tab, and see for yourself. That is how I verified it before writing this page.