Your browser holds a handful of small files for every site you open. They are inert text, not programs. This page accounts for the ones that belong to Glutenora.
Updates
When a provider is added or removed the cookies change, and so does this page. Check the date at the top to see how current it is.
Which cookies are set
- Necessary. Make the site work: page delivery, security, your cookie choice itself. The site cannot function without them.
- Analytics. Google Analytics, in aggregate: which pages get read, how people arrive. No name attached.
- Advertising. Google AdSense may set cookies to choose and cap the ads you see.
How long this is kept
Some of these last only as long as the tab stays open. Others, the measurement and ad cookies in particular, sit there for months.
Which cookies, specifically
- Analytics sets _ga and _gid: they separate one browser from another and nothing more.
- Advertising sets __gads and __gpi, used by AdSense to choose ads and cap how often each is shown.
- WordPress itself sets wordpress_test_cookie to verify cookies function, plus wp-settings-* for preferences.
- Commenting sets comment_author_* so you do not retype your details.
What none of these do: they do not read files on your device, they do not follow you into other applications, and they are not sold to anyone. There is no cookie here whose purpose is to identify you by name.
Embedded content
Embedded material from third parties can bring its own cookies with it. We cannot enumerate them here because they belong to the provider and change without reference to us.
How consent is recorded
Non-essential cookies wait for your answer where the law requires one. That answer has to be stored somewhere, so it lives in a cookie of its own. Delete it and the question comes back on your next visit.
Browser signals
There is no settled meaning for Do Not Track, so promising to respect it would be promising something undefined. Cookie blocking and the opt-out links above do have defined effects.
The opt-out links
- Google’s own controls sit at adssettings.google.com and cover personalised advertising wherever you meet it.
- Analytics measurement is refused site-wide by installing Google’s opt-out add-on from tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Nothing above depends on us: your browser can block third-party cookies outright, or clear this site’s cookies alone.
Your choice
Your browser can delete any of this at any moment, without asking us. Keep the technical cookies if you want pages to behave; the others are optional.
Contact
Questions go to the contact page.