Last updated: 28 July 2026
The short version: this site sets almost no cookies. There is no advertising network here, no analytics tracker, and nothing that follows you around the rest of the internet. If you simply read an essay and leave, nothing is stored on your device.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep. Some are essential for a site to work at all; others exist purely to watch what you do. This site only uses the first kind.
What this site actually sets
Comment cookies. If you leave a comment, WordPress may save your name, email address and website in cookies so the fields are already filled in the next time you comment. They are set only if you comment, they last up to a year, and you can decline them by clearing or blocking cookies in your browser. They are named along the lines of comment_author_*.
Login cookies. If you log in to the site as an author or administrator, WordPress sets session cookies to keep you logged in and to remember your screen preferences. These are named wordpress_* and wp-settings-*. As a reader, you will never receive them.
Caching. The site uses LiteSpeed Cache to serve pages quickly. In some configurations it sets a strictly functional cookie so that the correct cached version of a page is delivered to you. It carries no information about who you are.
What this site does not set
- No advertising or retargeting cookies.
- No Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager or similar measurement cookies.
- No social media tracking pixels.
- No cross-site or third-party profiling cookies of any kind.
This is also why you are not being interrupted by a consent banner. Under the ePrivacy rules a banner is required for non-essential cookies, and at present this site does not use any.
Third-party content
Some photographs on this site are served directly by Unsplash, and reader avatars, where shown, come from Gravatar. Loading them does not place cookies on your device from this site, but your browser does make a request to those services, which means they can see your IP address and browser type. If you would rather they did not, a content blocker will stop those requests.
Managing cookies
Every browser lets you see, block or delete cookies, usually under Settings, then Privacy. Blocking the functional cookies described above will not break your ability to read anything here; at most, a comment form will stop remembering your name.
If this changes
If I ever add something that sets non-essential cookies, I will update this page, change the date at the top, and add a proper consent banner before it runs.
Questions
Email luka.kosovel12@gmail.com. See also the privacy policy.