Cookie policy
Nothing non-essential is stored on your device until you say so, and the control that reverses your decision is at the foot of every page.
Last updated 2026-08-22
What a cookie is here
A cookie is a small file a site asks your browser to keep. The same rules — and the same consent requirement under the ePrivacy Directive as implemented in Spain, and under Article 6 GDPR for the processing that follows — apply to anything else stored on or read from your device for the same purposes: local storage, session storage, and device identifiers.
This page covers all of it, not only things technically called cookies.
The default state
Advertising and analytics consent signals on this site are set to "denied" before any script can run. That is done in the head of every page, ahead of everything else, and nothing on the site ever tightens it back — the only thing that changes it is your choice.
If you never make a choice, or if you decline:
- No analytics script is loaded and no analytics cookie is set.
- No advertising script is loaded and no advertising identifier is read.
- The site works completely. Nothing is withheld, and there is no second dialogue asking again on the next page.
Categories
Strictly necessary
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consent record | This site | Remembers the choice you made, so you are not asked on every page | 12 months |
| Security and delivery | Content delivery network | Routing, rate limiting and abuse prevention | Session, or as set by the provider |
These do not require consent, because without them the site cannot be delivered or your own choice cannot be remembered. The consent record stores one of two values — that you accepted, or that you declined — and nothing else about you.
Analytics — consent required
If you accept, Google Analytics 4 sets identifiers used to distinguish one visit from another and to count returning readers. Retention is set to the shortest period the product allows, and the address of your device is truncated before it is stored.
While no measurement identifier is configured in the site's runtime settings, the analytics script is not requested at all, whatever you choose. If you have accepted and see no analytics activity, that is why.
Advertising — consent required
If you accept, Google AdSense and the advertising partners you agree to inside the consent dialogue may set cookies or read identifiers to select advertisements, cap how often you see the same one, and measure whether an advertisement led anywhere.
Two things are worth being explicit about:
- The authoritative list of who is involved is the one inside the consent dialogue, not a table on this page. It changes as partners are added and removed, and a static list here would be out of date within weeks. Open the dialogue with the control described below to read the current one.
- This is a European site with a European readership. Serving advertising here without a consent platform certified against the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework would not be lawful, so advertising will not be switched on before that platform is in place.
Changing your mind
Use the Cookie settings control at the foot of any page. It reopens the consent dialogue, whichever platform is running, and lets you withdraw consent as easily as you gave it.
You can also clear cookies for this domain in your browser, which resets everything to the default denied state. Blocking third-party cookies entirely in your browser settings will also prevent the advertising and analytics categories from working, and will not break anything on this site.
Why the dialogue appears at all
Because the site intends to carry advertising, and advertising in the European Economic Area cannot lawfully be served on the basis of anything other than consent. A site that showed no dialogue and served advertisements anyway would be a site quietly relying on you not to check.
If the site were funded some other way, the dialogue would not exist, because nothing else on it needs one.
Related
- Privacy policy — what is processed, on what legal basis, and your rights.
- Advertising disclosure — how the site is funded, and what that money cannot buy.