Cookie Policy

We keep cookie use on this site deliberately minimal — no ad-tracking or cross-site cookies. Here's exactly what we set and why.

Cookie	Purpose	Duration
sc_flash	Carries a one-time confirmation message (e.g. "Thanks for subscribing!") across a single redirect after submitting the newsletter form.	10 seconds, or until read
sc_session	Keeps editorial staff logged into the admin panel. Only ever set for logged-in staff — regular readers never receive this cookie.	14 days
sc_vid	An anonymous, randomly generated ID used for our own internal traffic analytics (how many people read the site, from where) — not shared with or readable by any third party, and not used for advertising.	1 year

We also use your browser's local storage (not a cookie, and never sent to our servers) to remember whether you've already subscribed to the newsletter and to pre-fill your name on the comment form next time you visit — both purely for your own convenience, and both stay on your device.

Our infrastructure provider, Cloudflare, may set its own cookies (for example, to tell real visitors apart from bots) as part of delivering and securing this site. We don't control those directly — see Cloudflare's cookie policy for details.

We don't run any analytics or advertising trackers, so there's nothing else to opt out of.