This site does not use cookies.

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What a cookie is

A cookie is a small piece of information that a website leaves on the device of whoever visits it, so as to find it again on the next visit. It can remember a preference, keep a session open after you have signed in, or — and this is why cookies are talked about so much — follow people from one site to the next and build a picture of what they look at.

The law does not distinguish cookies from other ways of achieving the same result: what counts is writing something onto your device, or reading what is already there, however it is done.

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What this site does

It sets no cookies and uses no other tracking tools: it writes nothing onto your device in order to recognise you or follow you, and it does not go looking at what is already there. We have no tools counting visits, no advertising, no social network buttons and no third-party services starting up alongside the pages.

What remains is what the browser does on its own account — holding on to a page or an image it has already downloaded, so as not to fetch it twice. Those are its functions, not ours, and they serve to identify nobody.

Even the typefaces you are reading are served from our own address rather than from Google, which is where most sites take them from. When you open a page of this site, your browser contacts nobody else.

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Why there is no consent banner

That banner you see almost everywhere exists to collect consent, and consent is only needed when someone wants to write something onto a visitor's device, or read what is already there.

We install nothing of the kind: there is nothing for you to accept, and so nothing for us to ask. Putting a banner up anyway would not protect you any better — it would simply produce a consent with nothing to consent to, which is worse than no consent at all.

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The single exception: the maps

The Contact page has two Google maps, one for each location. They are switched off, and they stay switched off: until you press the button, your browser sends no request to Google and no data leaves this site. There is no hidden map loading out of sight.

If you press the button, the map is built at that moment and from then on your browser speaks directly to Google, which receives at least:

• the network address you are connecting from;
• the type of device, operating system and browser you are using;
• the language you have set;
• the address of the page you pressed from.

Google may also store information on your device, or read information already there, under its own rules. In this processing Google is not working on our behalf: it decides for itself why and how to handle that data, and sets this out in its own privacy notice — which you will find below, together with the companies involved.

Your choice is not remembered. We write nothing onto your device to note that you pressed: on your next visit the map is switched off again, and the decision is yours once more.

And if you would rather not press, you lose nothing: the addresses of both locations are written out next to the maps, and tapping them opens driving directions in whichever maps application you normally use — a relationship between you and that application, which this site takes no part in.

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What we do not do

For the avoidance of doubt, and so that it is written down somewhere:

• we do not profile you and we build no picture of your interests;
• we show no advertising, neither ours nor anyone else's;
• we do not measure the site's traffic, in any form;
• we do not follow your movements from one page to another;
• we share no data with advertising networks and sell none to anyone.

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If you want to block everything anyway

Every browser lets you block or delete cookies from its own settings, usually under Privacy or Security; many also let you block only third-party cookies, which are the ones that follow people around.

On this site you will notice no difference, because there are none. On other sites you will.