Cookie policy
What is stored in your browser, what each category is for, and how to change your answer whenever you like.
Last updated 12 August 2026
This page explains, in ordinary language, what Screen Level stores in your browser, what each category is for, and how to change your answer at any time. It sits alongside the privacy policy, which covers everything else we handle.
What a cookie is here
A cookie is a small piece of text a website asks your browser to keep, so that something can be remembered between page loads. Modern sites also use closely related browser storage that behaves the same way from your point of view. Wherever this page says cookie, it means both.
The three categories
| Category | What it does | Set without asking? | Typical lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Delivers pages, protects against abuse, and records the consent choice you make below so the notice does not reappear on every page | Yes — the site cannot work otherwise | Up to 12 months |
| Audience measurement | Counts which articles are read and roughly where readers arrive from, in aggregate, so we know which pages to improve | No — off until you allow it | Up to 12 months |
| Reading preferences | Remembers small interface choices, such as a question you expanded or a notice you dismissed | No — off until you allow it | Up to 12 months |
There are no advertising cookies on this site, no cross-site tracking, no fingerprinting, no social network widgets and no data brokers. Nothing collected here is used to profile you or to follow you elsewhere on the web.
Consent, and how it is recorded
On a first visit, the notice appears with three equally available answers: accept everything, reject everything optional, or open the panel and choose category by category. Optional categories stay switched off until you make a positive choice, and no optional storage is written before then.
Your answer is kept in this browser together with the date it was made and a version number, so that if the categories ever change we can ask again rather than assume. Clearing your browser data removes the record, and the notice will appear once more.
Changing your mind
Use the control here, or the same link in the footer of every page. Withdrawing consent is exactly as easy as giving it, and takes effect immediately — the measurement code is never loaded at all unless the category is switched on.
Third parties
Typefaces are requested from an external font service so that pages render as designed. That request is a normal web request and sets no cookie of ours. Beyond fonts, the site embeds nothing from anyone else: no video players, no comment systems, no tracking pixels, no share buttons.
If a third-party element is ever added, this page and the consent panel will be updated to describe it, and it will sit behind an optional category rather than being switched on quietly.
Browser-level controls
Independently of anything on this site, every major browser lets you block or delete cookies, run a private window, or send a global privacy signal. Those controls override ours. Blocking strictly necessary storage will not break your ability to read articles, though the consent notice may reappear on each visit because there is nowhere to record your answer.
Questions
Anything unclear on this page is a fault of the page rather than of the reader. Write to the address on the contact page and we will both answer you and reword whatever was confusing.