Cookie policy.

1. What cookies and similar technologies are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website. Similar technologies include browser localStorage and sessionStorage, which store small values in your browser rather than sending them with each request. This policy covers all of them, and the word “cookies” below refers to the whole category.

2. What this site uses

This site is a static editorial publication with a single inquiry form, so its storage footprint is deliberately minimal:

• Strictly necessary storage — required to deliver pages securely, keep the site available, protect the inquiry form from abuse, and remember your cookie choice. These cannot be switched off, because without them the site cannot function. Your consent record is stored under a single local key and contains only the words “accepted” or “essential.”
• Optional analytics storage — if you accept, an aggregate page-view count helps us understand which guides are read so we can improve them. It records no name, no contact details, and no cross-site identifier. Declining costs you nothing; every page works identically.
• Third-party embedded content — if you open or interact with an embedded map or follow an outbound link, that provider may set its own cookies under its own policy. We do not control that storage, and we do not receive it.

3. What this site never uses

We do not use advertising cookies, retargeting or remarketing pixels, cross-site tracking identifiers, social-media tracking widgets, fingerprinting, session-replay recording, or data-broker tags. No third party is permitted to place advertising technology on this site, and no personal information is sold or shared for advertising.

4. Your choice and how to change it

On your first visit you are asked to accept all storage or to allow essential storage only. Your choice is recorded in your browser, not on our servers, and applies to that browser and device.

You can change your mind at any time using the button below, or by clearing your browser storage for this site, which makes the banner reappear on your next visit.

5. Managing cookies in your browser

Every major browser lets you view, block, and delete cookies and site data from its settings or privacy menu, and offers a private-browsing mode that discards storage when the window closes. Blocking strictly necessary storage may cause parts of this site, including the consent banner and the inquiry form, to behave unexpectedly.

Because we run no advertising or cross-site tracking, industry opt-out tools for advertising networks have no effect on this site.

6. Updates to this policy

If we add or remove a storage technology we will update this policy and the effective date, and where the change is material we will ask for your choice again. Continued use of the site after an update constitutes acceptance.