Cookie Policy

What are cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website when you visit it. They are widely used to make websites work correctly, remember your preferences, and provide information to the site owner about how visitors use the site.

Cookies can be "session" cookies, which expire when you close your browser, or "persistent" cookies, which remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. They can be set by the website you are visiting ("first-party") or by third-party services embedded in the site.

Our position

This is a personal professional website. There is no need to track visitors, serve ads, or profile behaviour. The minimal cookies described below exist solely to keep the site functioning.

Essential cookies

Some cookies are strictly necessary for a website to operate. They do not track you and cannot be switched off without breaking the site's basic functions. These are the only cookies this site may set:

• Security cookies — used by the web hosting provider to protect the site from automated attacks such as CSRF (cross-site request forgery). These contain no personal information.
• Session state — short-lived browser storage used to maintain a consistent page experience during a single visit. Expires when the browser is closed.

These cookies do not require your consent under applicable privacy law because they are technically necessary. They cannot be used to identify you individually.

Third-party cookies

This site does not intentionally load third-party tracking scripts. However, the following services may be involved in delivering this site and could set their own cookies:

• Web hosting provider — the infrastructure that serves the Site may set technical cookies for load balancing or DDoS protection (for example, Cloudflare or a similar CDN). These are strictly operational and contain no personally identifiable information.
• Google Fonts — this Site loads typefaces from Google Fonts. Google may log the font request, which could include your IP address. No persistent cookie is set by Google Fonts itself, but the request is subject to Google's own privacy terms.

No social media pixels, advertising networks, retargeting scripts, or third-party analytics platforms (such as Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, or Hotjar) are loaded on this Site.

Cookie reference

The table below summarises all cookies that may be present when you visit this Site.

Name	Purpose	Duration	Type
__cf_bm	Cloudflare bot management — distinguishes human visitors from automated traffic	30 minutes	Third-party
cf_clearance	Cloudflare challenge clearance — records that a security challenge was passed	1 year	Third-party
_session	Maintains basic page state during a single browsing session	Session	Essential
csrf_token	Protects contact form submissions against cross-site request forgery	Session	Essential

If this Site's hosting configuration changes, this table will be updated accordingly. The cookies listed above may not all be present simultaneously — they depend on the hosting environment active at the time of your visit.

Managing cookies

Because this Site only uses essential and technically necessary cookies, there is no cookie preference centre. You can still control cookies at the browser level. Here is how to manage cookie settings in common browsers:

• Google Chrome — Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies
• Mozilla Firefox — Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
• Apple Safari — Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
• Microsoft Edge — Settings → Cookies and site permissions

Disabling all cookies may affect the contact form and basic site functionality. It will not prevent you from reading the content of this Site.

Do Not Track

Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal that requests websites not track your browsing activity. Because this Site does not track visitors in the first place, DNT signals have no practical effect here — the Site's behaviour is the same regardless of whether DNT is enabled in your browser.

Changes to this policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated if the Site's technical configuration changes — for example, if a new hosting provider is used or if a new feature requires additional browser storage. The date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision.

Any material change that introduces cookies requiring consent will be accompanied by an appropriate notice on the Site before such cookies are set.

Contact

Questions about this Cookie Policy or how this Site uses browser storage can be directed to: