Cookie policy
Short list, because the site has no accounts, no newsletter and no comment system to keep state for.
Change your choice
Use the Cookie settings link in the footer of any page. It reopens whichever consent interface is running on the site and lets you change or withdraw your choice. It is a working control, not a decorative one — if it ever fails to open anything, that is a bug and reporting it to contact@thedemandcharge.com would be a favor.
What a cookie is here
A small file a site asks your browser to keep, so that something can be remembered between page loads. Local storage does a similar job by a different mechanism, and this policy covers both.
Nothing non-essential is set until you choose
Google Consent Mode v2 is set to denied for advertising and analytics storage in the <head> of every page on this site, before any tag has a chance to run. Analytics loads only after you accept — the script element is created at that moment and not before, so the provider is not contacted at all until then, and there is no preconnect or tracking pixel doing it quietly on the side. If you reject, or if you simply never answer, nothing beyond the strictly necessary is written.
If your browser sends the Global Privacy Control signal, that counts as a refusal and nothing non-essential is set, whether or not you ever touch the banner. An explicit choice you make afterwards overrides the signal; switching the signal on after having accepted is treated as withdrawing that acceptance.
The cookies
Strictly necessary
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
kl_consent | This site | Remembers your consent choice so you are not asked on every page | 1 year, in local storage |
| Cloudflare security cookies | Cloudflare | Distinguishes readers from automated attack traffic | Session to 30 days |
These do not require consent under article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive, because without them either the site cannot be delivered or the choice you have already made cannot be honored.
Analytics — only after you accept
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | Distinguishes one browser from another so visits can be counted | 2 years |
_ga_<id> | Google Analytics | Keeps session state for the specific property | 2 years |
IP anonymization is enabled. No advertising features are enabled in the Analytics property.
Advertising — not currently running
Display advertising is planned for this site and is not live yet. When it is, Google AdSense and its partners may set cookies to limit how often you see the same ad, to measure whether an ad was seen, and — only if you consent to it — to personalize which ads you see. This table will be completed with the specific cookies before the first ad is served, and consent will be collected through a consent management platform certified against IAB TCF v2.2.
Google publishes the current list of the cookies it uses for advertising and how it uses data from partner sites:
Third parties you meet on this site
| Party | What it does here | Its policy |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Hosts and protects the site. Contacted on every visit, because it is what serves the page | cloudflare.com/privacypolicy |
| Google (Analytics) | Counts page views. Contacted only after you accept, never before | policies.google.com/privacy |
| Web3Forms | Relays contact form messages. Contacted only if you send one | web3forms.com/privacy |
That is the whole list. Typefaces, stylesheets, scripts and illustrations are all served from this domain, so on a visit where you accept nothing and send nothing, Cloudflare is the only party your browser talks to.
Articles on this site link out to primary sources — agencies, national laboratories, regulators. Following one of those links takes you to a site with its own cookie practices, over which this one has no control.
Blocking cookies yourself
Every browser can block or delete cookies: look for Privacy in its settings. Blocking the strictly necessary ones will mean the consent panel asks you again on every page, since remembering your answer is exactly what one of them does.
Related
The wider picture — what is processed, on what legal basis, and how to exercise your rights — is in the privacy policy.