This guide uses the minimum cookies needed to work, plus one measurement tool that only runs if you allow it. Here is the detail: what is stored, how long it lasts and how to change your mind at any time.
What we use and why
To remember your choice
When you accept or reject, we store that choice in your browser. It is the only thing stored without asking, because without it we would have to ask you on every page.
To know which pages help
If you accept, Google Analytics loads. It tells us which guides get read and which do not, which is how we decide what to improve. If you reject, it does not load at all.
What we do not do
We use no advertising cookies, we do not sell data and we build no profiles. The portal’s own statistics are aggregate counts: no cookies and nobody identified.
The cookies, one by one
sdt_consent
Type: Own, strictly necessary
Duration: 6 months
Stores whether you accepted or rejected measurement. After that we ask again.
_ga
Type: Google Analytics, measurement
Duration: 2 years
Distinguishes visitors in order to count visits. Only created if you accept.
_ga_ plus the identifier
Type: Google Analytics, measurement
Duration: 2 years
Keeps the measurement session state. Only created if you accept.
Changing your mind
There is a «Cookies» button at the bottom left that brings the notice back so you can choose differently. If you reject after having accepted, we stop loading the tool; any cookies already set can be deleted from your browser.
From your browser
Every browser lets you view, block and delete cookies from its privacy settings. Blocking them does not stop you using this guide: none of its features depend on measurement.