Cookies
This site sets a cookie to remember your language. It will also set Google Analytics cookies, but only if you agree to them.
Language preference
A cookie named NEXT_LOCALE stores which language you are reading, so the site does not switch back on your next visit. It holds a two-letter code and nothing else.
Google Analytics
If you accept, Google Analytics sets cookies that help us see how people find the site. Nothing is set before you choose, and declining leaves everything working exactly as it did. You are asked once; clearing this site's cookies brings the question back.
Counting visits without cookies
Separately, we count page views on our own server. Each view records the page, the country your network reports and the site that linked you, with no identifier, no session and no address. Nothing is stored on your device for it, and two visits cannot be recognised as the same person.
Administrator sign-in
Staff signing in to the admin panel receive a session cookie. It is not set for visitors.
What we do not use
No advertising cookies, no social widgets, no fingerprinting, and no third-party script other than Google Analytics, which only runs if you accept it.
Why there is a consent banner
Consent is required for cookies that track you, and the Analytics ones do. A language preference does not, which is why the banner appeared only when Analytics did.
Removing it
Clearing cookies for this site in your browser removes it. The site keeps working; it will simply open in its default language again.