mazetick

Notice

Cookies

This site sets no cookies. Not our own, not anyone else's. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.

Then what is stored?

At most one entry in your browser's local storage, named mazetick:theme, whose value is light or dark. It records that you chose a colour theme by hand, so the site can honour that choice when you come back.

If you have never pressed the theme control, nothing is stored at all and the site simply follows the light or dark setting your operating system already reports to every website. Choosing “Auto” again deletes the entry.

Why that is not a cookie

The distinction is worth stating rather than hiding behind. A cookie is attached to every request your browser makes to the server, so the server sees it. Local storage is not: it stays on your device and is readable only by this site's own pages, running in your browser. Our server never receives the value and has no way to ask for it.

Under the UK's Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, storing information on your device requires consent unless it is strictly necessary for a service you requested — and a user-interface preference you set yourself is the textbook example of the exemption. It is stored only once you press the control, and never before.

How to remove it

Press “Auto” on the theme control, clear site data for this domain in your browser settings, or use a private window. The site works identically without it and simply follows your system's colour setting.

Analytics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless and does not fingerprint your browser. It is described in full on the privacy page.

What would change this page

  • Advertising of any kind, including Google AdSense, which sets cookies.
  • Affiliate or referral links, which commonly rely on cookies to attribute a click.
  • Any embedded third-party content — video, maps, social widgets.
  • Any analytics product other than the cookieless one named above.

If any of those arrive, this page and the consent position have to be revised first. That is the point of writing the list down now.