Last updated 18 August 2026.
There is no cookie banner on this site. That is not an oversight: there is nothing to ask you about. What follows was measured by signing in and reading what the browser was handed, not copied from another site’s policy.
Before you sign in: nothing
A visitor who has not signed in is given no cookies at all. You can read every page here (the home page, the tools, the prices, the questions, these documents) without a single cookie being stored on your computer.
After you sign in: four, and they go when you close the browser
Signing in through this site’s own form sets four cookies, and every one of them is a session cookie: your browser drops it when you close it. None of them has an expiry date, because the sign-in form here does not offer a “keep me signed in” option, so there is no version of this where a cookie of ours outlives your browsing session.
| Cookie | What it is for | Sent on |
|---|---|---|
wordpress_logged_in_… |
Remembers that you are signed in, so the next page knows it is you and can show your credits and your work | every page |
wordpress_sec_… |
The same proof, kept separately for the administration paths. It appears twice, once for each of them | /wp-admin and /wp-content/plugins |
wordpress_test_cookie |
Set on the sign-in page to check that your browser accepts cookies at all, before telling you your password was wrong when it was not | the sign-in page |
All four are marked Secure, so a browser will only send them over an encrypted connection, and HttpOnly, so no script on the page can read them. The name of each ends in a hash of this site’s address; that is WordPress keeping the cookies of one site out of the way of another’s, not an identifier for you.
There is no plain, non-encrypted variant of the sign-in cookie, which WordPress would otherwise set: this site is served over HTTPS only, so it never appears.
WordPress also has a wp-settings-… cookie for remembering preferences inside the administration area. A visitor who never opens that area never receives it, and there is nothing in the administration area for a visitor.
What we do not set
No analytics. No advertising. No social buttons. No “we value your privacy” dialogue with forty-eight partners behind a button.
Nothing here measures you, follows you to another site, or is shared with anybody. There is no third-party script on any page of this site, and no font is fetched from anybody else’s server.
Our hosting company does keep a server log of requests, which includes the address you connect from. That is a log rather than a cookie: nothing is stored on your computer for it, and nothing about it can be turned off from your browser. The privacy policy says what is in it.
Why there is no banner
European law requires consent for cookies that are not strictly necessary for a service you asked for. Every cookie above is necessary for signing in, which is a thing you asked for by signing in. There is nothing left to consent to, and a banner asking you to consent to nothing wastes your click.
If analytics is ever added (there is no plan to), the banner arrives with it, before it is switched on, not after.
Turning them off
Your browser can refuse cookies, and this site works right up to the point where you sign in. Signing in cannot work without them: they are the whole mechanism by which the next page knows who you are. Nothing else on the site depends on one.