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Cookie policy
The short version: wimarelqo.pro does not set cookies. Not one, not for analytics, not for preferences, not for anything. What the site does use is two entries in your browser’s local storage, and this page names them both so you can go and look for yourself.
1. Cookies versus local storage
A cookie is a small piece of text that a browser attaches to every subsequent request to a site, which is what makes cookies useful for tracking people across pages and, when set by third parties, across different sites entirely. Local storage is different: it is a key-and-value store held on your own device, and its contents are never attached to a request automatically. A script on the page has to read it deliberately, and only a script served from the same origin can do so.
We chose local storage precisely because nothing travels with your requests. The two values described below sit on your machine and are read only by the site’s own script, running in your browser, to decide whether to show a strip and what number to print in the footer.
2. The two values this site writes
These are the exact key names. You can verify them by opening your browser’s developer tools, choosing the storage or application panel, and looking under local storage for this domain.
| Key name | What it holds | Why it exists | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
wq.strip.seen |
The single character 1, written only after you press the acknowledgement button on the notice strip. |
So the strip does not reappear on every page you open. Without it, the strip would show up again each time. | Until you clear site data for this domain. |
wq.pages.count |
A whole number, increased by one each time a page on this site finishes loading in this browser. | Purely so the footer can tell you how many pages you have opened here. The number is displayed to you and used for nothing else. | Until you clear site data for this domain. |
That is the entire list. If you find any other key belonging to this domain in your browser storage, it did not come from us, and we would like to hear about it at [email protected].
3. What neither value can do
Neither key contains a random identifier, a session token, a fingerprint or anything that could be used to recognise you. wq.strip.seen holds a single character. wq.pages.count holds a number. Neither is transmitted to us or to anybody else, because there is no code on this site that sends storage contents anywhere.
Both are also scoped to this domain and to the specific browser and profile you are using. Reading the site in a private window, on a different browser, or on another device produces a fresh, empty store with no connection to the first one.
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, storage that is strictly necessary to provide a function the reader has asked for does not require prior consent. The dismissal flag exists only because you pressed a button asking for the strip to go away; the page counter is a small courtesy shown back to you. Neither is used for measurement, profiling or advertising. We describe both anyway, because a policy that only lists what the law compels is not much of a policy.
4. Removing them
You can clear both values at any time, and the site keeps working afterwards. The only visible effect is that the notice strip reappears once and the page counter starts again from one.
In common browsers
- Chrome or Edge: Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies or Cookies and site data, then See all site data and permissions. Search for the domain and remove it. The developer tools route is Application, then Local storage.
- Firefox: Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Cookies and Site Data, then Manage Data. Search for the domain and remove. Developer tools route: Storage, then Local Storage.
- Safari on macOS: Settings, then Privacy, then Manage Website Data. Select the domain and remove it.
- Safari on iOS or Android browsers: clearing browsing data or website data in the browser’s settings removes local storage along with everything else.
You can also disable JavaScript for this domain entirely. The pages remain readable — all text, images and layout are plain HTML and CSS — but the notice strip will not appear or dismiss, the accordions on several pages will not open, the genre filter on the double takes page will stop narrowing the list, and the form on the talk back page will not run its checks.
5. Third parties: there are none
No part of this site is loaded from another company’s server. The stylesheets, the icon font, the two typefaces, the script and all eight photographs are served from wimarelqo.pro itself. That is a deliberate design decision, and its practical consequence is that no third party is in a position to set a cookie or read storage while you are here, because no third party is involved at all.
There is no advertising, no analytics, no embedded video, no social widget and no comment platform on any page. If we ever add something that changes this, this page changes first and the revision date at the top moves with it.
6. Related reading and contact
The privacy policy covers the wider picture: hosting logs, what happens if you email us, and your rights under UK data protection law. It also explains why the form on the talk back page transmits nothing at all.
Questions about anything on this page go to [email protected], or by post to Duke Studios, 3 Sheaf Street, Leeds LS10 1HD, United Kingdom.