Cookie Policy

This is a working draft. What it says about the website was checked against the code that builds this site. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer or by a data protection adviser, and the open questions are marked in the text as [TO BE CONFIRMED].

What a cookie is here

A small piece of information a website asks your browser to keep, so that the site or a company working with it can recognise your browser on a later page or a later visit. Local storage and session storage do the same job by a different mechanism, and this page covers all three.

What this site sets by itself

Nothing.

The site’s own code sets no cookies, and uses neither local storage nor session storage. This is checkable rather than asserted: the published files carry no instruction to write to any of the three.

Nothing on this site depends on a cookie. No page needs one to display correctly, because there is nothing to log into and no preference to remember.

What Google Analytics sets

The live site at thevoiceofbusiness.eu loads Google Analytics 4 from www.googletagmanager.com , with the measurement ID G-DRPGK79MSP. That code belongs to Google, not to us, and it stores an identifier in your browser so that Google can tell one visit from another and a returning reader from a new one.

This is the only third-party code on any page of this site, so it is the only thing that can be storing anything.

[TO BE CONFIRMED: the exact cookie names, their purposes and their lifetimes, confirmed against Google’s own current documentation on the day this page is published. They are set by Google and can change without this website changing, so they are not written down here from memory.]

The review copy of this site, used to look at work before it goes live, does not load analytics and therefore stores nothing at all.

There is no consent banner

At the time of writing, this site shows no cookie banner and asks no permission before the analytics code loads.

That is a statement of fact about the site as built, not a position on whether it is adequate. In the European Union, consent is generally required before analytics cookies are set.

[TO BE CONFIRMED: whether a consent mechanism is added, what it asks, and whether analytics is held back until consent is given. This is a decision for the business and its adviser. No banner has been built.]

How to refuse

Until there is a banner, the controls are the ones your browser already gives you.

Every current browser can block or clear cookies for a single site from its own settings, and blocking them for this one stops the analytics identifier being kept. Most browsers also offer a private or incognito window, which discards everything a site stored when you close it. Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics on every site at once.

Because nothing here depends on cookies, refusing them does not break any page on this site.

Questions

[TO BE CONFIRMED: the contact address for questions about this page. It is the same missing address named on the privacy page.]