Actually, there aren’t any cookies set by us. No sneaky tracking going on here!
The site does though contain code which counts visitors and determines things such as which pages are most popular.
No personal or confidential data is created or stored by this code. None of this information allows anyone to identify you specifically as an individual or anything about what your favourite colour is and whether you prefer cats or dogs.
The code used is created by Fathom Analytics, an independent privacy-focused Canadian company whose business ethos is to avoid the extensive tracking that some other analytics software imposes on users to gather data.
NB. While Fathom is Canadian-based, all data for European users is managed in the EU.
The service allows us to collect and process anonymous statistical data about details of your visit to this website, including which pages were viewed, the average time a user spends on this site, plus traffic data – eg. location data (which country a visitor came from), if you came from a link on another site, or a search engine, and so on.
Web designers like to know this kind of stuff so they can judge if it’s still worthwhile supporting obsolete browsers with regard to the ongoing technical development and functionality of our site. Do they still need to include code for Netscape Navigator 2 from 1995? (No, they don’t).
We also note basic information about whether a viewer is browsing on a computer or mobile device, and which web browser they use. You can understand though why it’s useful to us to know where our visitors are coming from, any ads or links on other sites they clicked to get here, and which of our pages they’re reading – or ignoring!
As above, this site doesn’t set any cookies for our visitor statistics. However, if you click on any links to third-party sites or social media networks, they may set cookies which can be used to enhance your profile on their service or contribute to the data they gather.
Please note that these websites may/should have their own privacy policies. Remember not everybody is as nice as us, so because we have no control over them, we have to state that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies or content. So be careful out there.