In a world where shoddy websites try to pass off 376 advertising partner data mining operations as "essential" cookies, I'm doing something different.
This website has no tracking cookies. Go back and read that again. Done? Good.
This is a deliberate choice, for a few reasons:
- When I have tracking enabled, I become obsessed by it. I want to know who's on my site, what they're looking at. I become Alice falling down the rabbit hole.
- I let visitor numbers validate me, which is not a healthy thing.
- I become a slave to the numbers and let them pressurise me into what I create and publish.
That's on top of having watched data captured by companies like Meta used to manipulate the outcome of more than one election. I'm not interested in being part of that ecosystem, even tangentially.
What cookies this site does set
The new site is static HTML, so there is no CMS, no login system, and no analytics platform. The only cookies you'll encounter are from Tally, the form tool used on the contact and booking pages. These are set only when you interact with a form.
That is genuinely it. No Google Analytics, no Meta Pixel, no heatmaps, no session recording, no remarketing tags. Nothing.
If that ever changes, this page will say so clearly and in plain English, not buried in a 47-page document written by a lawyer who doesn't like people.