Privacy choices

When you accept, we load the X (Twitter) advertising tag, which sets cookies belonging to X Corp. and lets us tell how many people who arrived from one of our campaigns went on to sign up. That is all we use it for: it is never given your email address, your name or any hashed form of them.

When you accept, we also load Google Analytics, which sets cookies belonging to Google on this site — _ga, one _ga_… and _gcl_au, plus a _gac_… when your visit came from one of our ads — and reports which pages were visited and where the visit came from. Your acceptance covers advertising as well as analytics, so Google may also use that to measure how our campaigns perform and to personalise the advertising you are shown, including showing you our ads on other sites. It is never given your email address, your name or any hashed form of them, and it does not run on the logged-in pages of the product.

Declining stops all of that being loaded on every page from here on, and deletes the cookies it left on this site. It cannot pull back a tag that is already running on the page in front of you — that one stops the next time you load a page — and the cookies a vendor sets on its own domain are outside our reach, so those are cleared through your browser’s settings.

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we honour it automatically: these cookies stay off, you are never asked, and anything an earlier acceptance left on this site is deleted the next time you load a page. Our own visitor analytics are self-hosted and cookieless, run for everyone either way, and are not affected by anything on this page.

The privacy policy describes each cookie, who sets it and how long it lasts.