How this site uses cookies

The kinds we may set

Only one kind can appear here. Strictly necessary files, if any, let the site load, keep a page secure and remember a choice such as a setting a page needs. There are no measuring tools that count visits or show which guides and destinations get read, because this site runs no analytics at all.

• Necessary files that make the pages load and stay secure
• A preference a page needs, kept only when required
• No analytics or measurement of which pages are read

What we do not do

We do not place advertising cookies, we do not sell reader data and we do not hand your browsing to a network of other sites. There is no profile built to target you elsewhere. If that ever changed, this page would say so plainly before it happened, because a quiet change to a privacy practice is the kind of thing that erodes trust fastest.

Managing cookies yourself

You are in control of what your browser stores. Every major browser lets you block, delete or limit cookies, and it usually lets you keep the necessary ones while refusing the rest. Blocking everything may make some parts of the site feel rougher, such as a forgotten language choice, but no reader is locked out for refusing a cookie.

Other tools that behave like cookies

Browser storage and similar features can do some of the same jobs as a cookie, such as remembering a setting without sending anything to a server. This site relies on no such storage today, but if one were ever used it would follow the same rule as the cookies above: small, useful and never for selling you something. The same browser controls that clear cookies also clear these.

Questions about this page

If you want to know whether a specific file is being set, or you would like more detail than this page gives, ask through the contact form and we will answer it. We would rather explain a small cookie clearly than defend a vague policy, because the point of this site is to be trusted about the Valley, and that trust starts with being straight about the basics.

• Ask which files a page sets
• Tell us if a cookie blocks you
• Keep the necessary ones, refuse the rest