Cookie Policy

Most cookie policies are written to make a long list of trackers sound harmless. This one is short because the list is short.

Nothing optional runs until you say so. If you have already made a choice you can change it whenever you like using the Cookie settings link in the footer.

A cookie is a small file a site stores in your browser so it can remember something between page loads. Similar technologies (local storage, session storage) do the same job, and everything on this page applies equally to those.

Every optional item on this site falls into one of three groups. You can accept or reject each group separately.

• Strictly necessary. Remembering your cookie choice, and keeping the site up and secure. These cannot be switched off, because without them the site cannot honour the choice you just made.
• Functional. Remembering small preferences, such as a tutorial filter you selected. Nothing here identifies you.
• Analytics. Aggregated counts of which pages get read, so I know which tutorials are worth making more of. No advertising profile is built.
• Marketing and embedded media. This is what YouTube sets when a tutorial video loads. It is the only third party with any real reach on this site.

The honest list, rather than a generic template:

• ferdy_consent (necessary, first party, 6 months) records which categories you accepted, so you are not asked on every page.
• YouTube cookies (marketing, third party) are set by youtube-nocookie.com, and only once a video actually loads.
• Analytics is reserved in the banner but is not currently running. If that changes, this page and the banner change first.

Use the Cookie settings link in the footer of any page. It reopens the same panel you saw on your first visit, with your current choices shown. Withdrawing consent is exactly as easy as giving it, which is the legal standard and also just fair.

Clearing cookies in your browser also works, and will bring the banner back on your next visit.

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, it is treated as a valid opt-out of analytics and marketing without you having to click anything. Several US state laws require this to be honoured, and it is honoured here regardless of where you are.

Consent rules genuinely differ by region, so the banner adapts:

• Europe, the UK and Switzerland. Nothing optional loads until you opt in, and rejecting is one click, on a button with the same visual weight as accepting.
• Brazil and South Africa. Treated the same way as Europe, since LGPD and POPIA both work on consent.
• United States. An opt-out model, in line with California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut and the other state laws, with a clear route to reject and Global Privacy Control honoured automatically.
• Everywhere else. A plain notice with the same controls available.

The privacy policy covers what personal data is collected and your rights over it. The affiliate disclosure explains cookies set by merchants when you follow an affiliate link, which are theirs rather than mine.