Cookies and tracking
Last updated 28 July 2026. There is no cookie banner on this site because there is nothing to consent to. Here is the full list.
- 2cookies in total
- 0analytics or ad tags
- 0requests to other domains
- Noneconsent required
Reading this site sends your browser to no other company at all.
You can verify that in your browser's network inspector — every request goes to this domain. There are 2 cookies, listed below in full, and neither one is used to track you.
Every cookie this site sets
| Name | Purpose | Expires | Consent needed |
|---|---|---|---|
PHPSESSID |
A random session identifier. Used to protect the review and subscribe forms against cross-site request forgery, and to keep an administrator signed in. Contains no information about you. | When you close your browser | No — strictly necessary |
cur |
The currency you chose to read prices in — the three letters and nothing else, for example INR. Set only when you use the currency selector; we never write it for you. |
One year | No — a preference you set yourself |
That is the complete list — 2 cookies, neither of which carries an identifier for advertising or analytics.
Other browser storage
Cookies are not the only way a site can keep something on your device, and a page that
listed only cookies would be telling you a technically true half of the story. So, in
full: this site writes one value to localStorage, named
theme, holding either light or dark. It is
written only when you press the light/dark button, it never leaves your browser —
localStorage is not sent with requests the way a cookie is — and
clearing your site data removes it.
There is nothing else. No sessionStorage, no IndexedDB, no service worker,
no cache used to re-identify you.
How prices pick a currency
If you have not chosen a currency, the site guesses one from your region so that prices
arrive in money you recognise, and says on the page that it guessed. That guess uses
two things your browser and network already send with every request: a country code
added by the CDN in front of this site, and your Accept-Language header.
No cookie is involved in the guess, no location database is consulted, and the country is not written down — it is read from the request, used to pick a default, and forgotten when the page finishes rendering. Choosing a currency yourself overrides it permanently and is the only thing that stores anything.
What we deliberately do not use
- No analytics. No Google Analytics, no tag manager, no Plausible, no Matomo.
- No advertising or retargeting. No ad network, no conversion pixels, no Meta or Google remarketing tags.
- No social widgets or embeds. No like buttons, no embedded video players.
- No third-party fonts. Webfonts are served from our own servers precisely so your IP address is not sent to a font CDN.
How we measure anything, then
When you click a link to a hosting provider, we record the page you clicked from, your device type, browser string, and a one-way hash of your IP address. That tells us which of our pages are useful without identifying you, and it is stored in our own database rather than sent anywhere. No cookie is involved. Detail on the privacy page.
Cookies set by hosting providers
Once you follow a link and arrive on a provider's website, that provider will typically set its own cookie to record that we referred you — that is the mechanism by which we earn a commission. Those cookies are theirs, on their domain, governed by their policy. We cannot read them and cannot switch them off from here.
If you would rather not be tracked by a provider, visit them by typing their address directly. You lose nothing; we simply earn nothing.
Controlling cookies
Every browser lets you block or delete cookies in its privacy settings.
Blocking PHPSESSID for this site is fine for reading — you will
only hit a problem when submitting a review or subscribing, because the
anti-forgery check needs it.
Blocking or clearing cur costs you nothing but the memory: prices go back
to being shown in the currency your region suggests, and you can pick again at any time
from the selector at the top of every page.