Last updated: 26 August 2026
Why there is no cookie banner
Because there is nothing to consent to. This site carries no advertising, no social pixels, no profiling and no analytics that chase you from one site to the next. Reading the home page, the gear page or the FAQ leaves nothing at all in your browser.
The law requires your permission when a site stores or reads information on your device for purposes that are not strictly necessary. Since that does not happen here, a banner would be asking you for permission that is not needed. What is worth doing is telling you what this site measures, and the three cases where something is stored.
I count visits, but without cookies
I do measure how many people come by and which pages they read, using Ahrefs Web Analytics. I picked it precisely because it sets no cookies and writes nothing to your browser, which is why it is not on the list below.
It does not identify you, does not follow you across other sites and does not build a profile of you. Your IP is used for a moment to work out the city, then discarded. The full account is in the privacy policy.
The booking calendar
On the booking page, and only there, the Cal.com calendar loads — they are the ones running my diary. To work, it stores three things:
__Secure-next-auth.callback-url — a technical cookie of theirs, cleared when you close the browser.nextauth.message — local storage; keeps the widget in step across tabs.timeOption.is24hClock — local storage; remembers whether you prefer a 24- or 12-hour clock.
None of the three identifies you, follows you across other sites or shows you ads: they are the calendar's own machinery. They are set because the calendar is precisely the thing you went to that page for, and they appear nowhere else on the site.
If you would rather avoid them entirely, write to me on WhatsApp, by phone, by email or on Telegram — none of those go through the calendar.
Light and dark mode
When you change the theme with the toggle, I keep your choice in your browser's local storage under the key theme, so it opens the way you left it next time.
It is written only if you press the toggle: leave it alone and nothing is stored. It is your preference, it stays on your device, and it goes nowhere.
The video on the home page
The player on the home page pulls its cover image from Vimeo, which means Vimeo sees your IP address even if you never press play. That stores nothing in your browser, but I would rather you knew.
The moment you do press play, the full Vimeo player loads and sets its own cookies. From there Vimeo's terms apply, not mine.
How to clear or block it
Your browser has the last word. Its privacy settings let you see, delete and block cookies and local storage, for this site or for every site.
Blocking it breaks nothing: at worst the calendar on the booking page stops loading and you will have to reach me another way.
If this changes
The day I add analytics, advertising or anything else that stores more than the above, I update this page before switching it on. And if permission is ever needed, I will ask for it.