Reading this site stores nothing on your device. Signing in stores one thing, because that is what staying signed in means. There is no advertising here and nothing that follows you to other sites.
Version 2026-08-16.1 — describes the site as of August 16, 2026.
Researched carefully and with sources, but written by someone not qualified to give legal advice, and not yet checked by a solicitor.
All of it, including the parts you only get if you sign in.
| Name | What it is | Set when | Lasts | Consent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
theme |
Light or dark. Stored by your browser, not sent to us — no server ever sees it. | You click Light / dark. | Until you clear your browser storage. | Your click |
cadb_session |
Keeps you signed in. One random string and nothing else — no name, no email, nothing anyone could read. The matching record sits on our server, so signing out really does end the session. | You sign in, and not before. | Until you close your browser. Or 30 days, if you tick Keep me signed in, which starts unticked. | Your sign-in, and your choice of the two |
cadb_oauth |
Holds your place while you are away at Google or Apple, and checks the answer came back to the browser that asked. It is why a stranger cannot finish your sign-in. | You start signing in. | Ten minutes, then deleted as soon as sign-in ends. | Not needed |
cadb_admin_local |
Signs in whoever runs the site. Listed so the table is complete; you will never be given one. | An administrator signs in. | 24 hours. | Not needed |
Every one of these is set by this site and sent nowhere else. No other company puts anything in your browser from these pages.
The law covers anything stored on your device, not only cookies, so the theme setting counts even though it is not one. It makes an exception for storage that does something you asked for, and everything above is either that or a setting you chose by clicking.
None of it follows you to another site. None of it builds a picture of you. None of it is sold or shared.
European guidance says a preference you clicked can be remembered without permission for a browser session, or a little longer. Past that, you should have been told it would be kept. Ours is kept until you clear your browser.
Telling you here is the fix the guidance itself suggests. It should also be written next to the button, and it is not yet.
It used to happen automatically. European guidance says it should not: a sign-in that survives closing your browser can leave you thinking you are anonymous when you are not.
So there is a box at sign-in — Keep me signed in on this device for 30 days — and it starts unticked. Leave it and the sign-in ends when you close your browser. Tick it and you get the 30 days. A sign-in that started unticked cannot quietly become a lasting one, and a test checks that.
Click Light / dark again to change the theme back, or clear this site's data in your browser to remove everything at once. Nothing breaks. You will get whichever colour scheme your computer prefers, and you will be signed out. Signing out removes the session cookie and deletes the record behind it.
We count page views on our own server, using the request your browser was already making. Nothing is stored on your device, so there is nothing to ask your permission for.
One person reading six pages should count as one visit, not six. So the server mixes your address with a secret to make a short code. Then it throws the address away without writing it down.
The secret is replaced every night and the old one destroyed. Tomorrow the same reader gets a different code. Yesterday's cannot be worked out again by anyone, including us.
The trade is real. We cannot tell you how many different people visited last month, and we never will be able to.
If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, none of this happens. You are not counted at all.
Consent banners exist to ask permission for storage that is not necessary — advertising, tracking across sites, analytics that tag you and follow you. This site does none of that, so there is nothing to ask you about.
Three things would change that:
None of them is planned. Nothing on this site is loaded from another company at all.
If any of it ever arrives, this page changes first and the banner arrives with it.
Signing in takes you to accounts.google.com or appleid.apple.com. Those are their pages, and they set their own cookies under their own rules. They are the same ones you would get signing in to anything else, and it happens while you are on their site. We cannot see those cookies, read them, or switch them off.
The only storage we are responsible for is the table above.
Pages here link out to shops, libraries, streaming services and archives. Those are other people's sites with other people's cookies, and once you follow a link you are under their rules rather than ours.
Pictures come from our own storage, not from anyone else's server. So looking at a record sleeve here does not tell a shop you were looking at it.
Whenever the storage does. The date under the heading is the day it was last true.