Cookie Policy
Last updated: 8 September 2026
In short: nothing non-essential is stored on your device until you press Accept in the cookie banner. If you press Reject, or simply ignore the banner, no analytics cookies are ever created. The site works identically either way — nothing is withheld from you for saying no.
1. What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store, so it
can recognise the browser on a later request. This policy also covers similar
technologies, such as localStorage, which store data in your
browser in the same way and are treated identically under Article 22.2 of
Spanish Law 34/2002 (LSSI-CE).
2. Cookies used on this site
2.1 Strictly necessary — always active
These are required for the site to work and to stay secure. Under Article 22.2 LSSI-CE they are exempt from the consent requirement, so they cannot be switched off from the banner.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
__cf_bm |
Cloudflare, Inc. | Distinguishes real visitors from automated bots, so the service can block abuse without blocking people. | 30 minutes | Third party |
grm-consent |
This site | Remembers whether you accepted or rejected analytics, so the banner
stops asking. Stored in localStorage, not sent to any server,
and contains only the word granted or denied. |
Until you clear your browser data | First party |
2.2 Analytics — only after you accept
These are set by Google Analytics 4 (loaded through Google Tag Manager) and by Microsoft Clarity, and are used to understand how many people use the tool, which parts of it they use, and where the interface confuses them. They are blocked until you consent and are removed again if you withdraw consent.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_ga |
Assigns a random identifier to your browser so repeat visits can be counted as one visitor rather than several. | 2 years | Third party | |
_ga_5JK9BJZS23 |
Keeps the session state for this specific Analytics property. | 2 years | Third party | |
_clck |
Microsoft Clarity | Keeps a Clarity identifier for this browser, so several page views can be joined into one session. | 1 year | Third party |
_clsk |
Microsoft Clarity | Groups the page views of a single visit into one recording. | 1 day | Third party |
CLID, MUID, ANONCHK,
SM, MR |
Microsoft | Set on Microsoft’s own domains (clarity.ms,
c.bing.com) when Clarity loads, to identify a browser across
Microsoft services and to synchronise those identifiers. |
Up to 1 year | Third party |
What Microsoft Clarity records
Clarity produces heatmaps and session replays: an anonymised reconstruction of how a page was used — mouse movement, scrolling, clicks and rage clicks. It is used to find parts of the interface that confuse people, not to identify anyone. Text you type into fields is masked before it leaves your browser, so the Steam profile you enter is not readable in a recording. Clarity does not record other tabs, other sites, your screen, your camera or your microphone. Microsoft’s own explanation is in its Privacy Statement.
Because Clarity has no equivalent of Google’s Consent Mode, its script is not placed on the page at all until you accept. Rejecting means it is never downloaded and never runs.
Google acts as a data processor for this analytics data. It may be transferred outside the European Economic Area under the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. Advertising features and Google Signals are switched off, so this data is not used to build advertising profiles. Google’s own explanation is available in its Privacy Policy.
2.3 What this site does not use
There are no advertising cookies, no retargeting pixels, no social media trackers, no fingerprinting and no cross-site tracking of any kind.
3. How consent is handled
The banner appears on your first visit. Until you choose, Google Consent Mode holds all analytics storage in a denied state, which means Google Tag Manager loads but Google Analytics is prevented from writing anything to your browser. Only pressing Accept lifts that block.
Reject is offered with exactly the same prominence as Accept, and there is no cookie wall: rejecting costs you no functionality whatsoever.
4. Changing or withdrawing your choice
You can change your mind at any time using the “Cookie settings” link in the footer of every page. Choosing Reject there stops future analytics, signals Clarity to stop recording, and deletes the Google Analytics and Clarity cookies stored on this site. Cookies held on Microsoft’s own domains can only be removed through your browser settings, or by opting out at clarity.microsoft.com.
You can also delete or block cookies through your browser’s own settings. Instructions: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge. Blocking the strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of the site working correctly.
5. Analytics that use no cookies at all
Separately from the above, the site records on its own server which recommendations get clicked, so the algorithm can be measured and improved. This uses no cookies and stores nothing on your device, so it is not governed by this policy and is unaffected by your cookie choice. It is described in full in the Privacy Policy, which also explains how to have that data deleted.
6. Changes to this policy
If the cookies used by the site change, this page is updated before the change takes effect, and the date at the top will reflect it.
7. Contact
Questions about this policy: [email protected]. Identification details of the site owner are in the Legal Notice.