PinnicaleCOOKIE
POLICY
Which files this site stores on your device, what each one does, and how to say no. Last reviewed 28 September 2026.
What a cookie actually is
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep. When you return, the browser hands it back, which is how a site remembers that you dismissed a banner or which page you came from. Related technologies (local storage, session storage, pixels) do much the same job by different means, and everything on this page applies to them too.
Cookies cannot read the rest of your device, run programs, or carry viruses. They are a memory mechanism, and the question worth asking is not whether they exist but what is being remembered and by whom.
What Pinnicale uses
Strictly necessary
Keep the site working: page delivery, security, load balancing, and remembering your cookie choice so the banner does not reappear on every page. These cannot be switched off without breaking the site, and they do not identify you.
Preference
Remember small display choices you have made, so the site behaves the same way next visit. Optional. Set only with your agreement.
Analytics
Count page views and reading patterns in aggregate. We use a privacy-oriented setup: no cross-site tracking, no advertising identifiers, no attempt to recognise you as an individual across visits. Optional.
Advertising
None. Pinnicale does not run display advertising, does not use retargeting pixels, and does not share data with ad networks for profiling.
Third-party embeds
Content loaded from another domain can set its own cookies under that domain’s policy. We keep embeds to a minimum for exactly this reason.
Duration
Session cookies vanish when you close the browser. Persistent ones last a defined period, typically days for preferences and longer for a recorded consent choice, and can be cleared at any time.
How to refuse or remove them
On this site. The consent banner shown on your first visit lets you accept or decline the optional categories. Clearing your cookies for this domain will make it appear again, and you can change your answer then.
In your browser. Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies, usually under Settings, then Privacy. Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge all offer per-site controls as well as a blanket setting. Private or incognito windows discard everything on close.
Worth knowing. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will break parts of the site. Blocking the optional ones will not: every page remains fully readable, and the only thing lost is our count of how many people read it.
Keeping this current
If we add or remove a cookie category, this page is updated and the review date at the top changes with it. This policy sits alongside the privacy policy, which covers personal information more broadly.