Cookies

Ours

Two, both set by the server together with the page you open, on every page of the site:

• mz_vid — a randomly generated string that lets a repeat visit be told apart from a first one; it expires after twelve months.
• mz_src — the route that brought you here — “direct” for a typed address, otherwise the referring site; it expires after 30 days.

Neither one holds your name, your email address or anything you type, and neither is shared with an advertiser. The pages carry no analytics script, no advertising tags and no social widgets.

Other people’s

If you follow a link off the site, the destination may set its own cookies. That is outside our control and covered by the policy of whoever runs it.

Turning them off

Every browser can block or clear cookies from its settings, usually under privacy or site data. Nothing on this site stops working if you do: there is no login to lose, no basket to empty and no preference stored anywhere that clearing cookies would throw away. Pages look and behave exactly the same with site data switched off entirely.

Why only two

The site is built as a set of static pages. There is no login, no basket and no personalisation, so the usual reasons for a long list of cookies do not arise. The two that exist only count visits and their sources.

Fonts and other files

Stylesheets, images and the site icon are served from this domain, not from a font or asset network, so loading a page does not tell anyone else that you did. Photographs are stored here as copies; the licence and author named in each caption link back to Wikimedia Commons, and that link is only followed if you click it.

If this changes

If the site ever adds a cookie beyond these two, it will be listed here with what it holds and how long it lasts. Questions go through Contact, and what we store more generally is on Privacy.