Cookies & Consent
Last updated: 2026-07-03
Why some visitors see a consent banner
If you are browsing from the United Kingdom or the European Union (including the wider European Economic Area), the law requires us to get your permission before we place any cookies that are not strictly necessary. In the EU this comes from the ePrivacy Directive and the GDPR. In the UK it comes from PECR and the UK GDPR. That is why you see a banner before any analytics or advertising code runs: until you choose, we load nothing from Google at all.
Visitors outside the UK and EU do not see the banner, because those laws do not apply to them. We work out your rough location from your connection (country only, via our content delivery network). We never look up your precise location.
What we ask consent for
Analytics (Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager). Tells us which pages fans read most, so we know which parts of the archive to expand. It sets cookies such as _ga and _ga_* that recognise your browser across visits. We see aggregated statistics only, never your name or email.
Advertising (Google AdSense). Ads keep this fan project online. AdSense may set cookies such as __gads, __gpi and __eoi to measure ad performance and, where permitted, personalise the ads you see. Google acts as an independent controller of that data. You can read how Google uses it in Google's partner sites policy and manage your ad settings at adssettings.google.com.
What we do not need consent for
A few things are strictly necessary and exempt from consent rules. We store your cookie choice itself, a 30 day cache of your country group (a simple yes or no for UK/EU, so we do not have to check on every page), and a session flag that stops the newsletter popup reappearing after you close it. These stay in your browser, identify nothing about you, and are never sent to anyone.
If you subscribe to the newsletter, you give consent for that separately by submitting the form. Emails are handled by Campaign Monitor and every email includes an unsubscribe link. See our Privacy Policy for details.
Change your mind any time
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Rejecting after previously accepting removes the Google cookies we can reach and reloads the page without the analytics and advertising code. You can also clear cookies in your browser settings at any point.
Questions
This is an independent fan project and we keep data collection as light as we can. If anything here is unclear, the About page explains who runs the archive.