Cookie and Storage Policy

The short answer

lughonline.com does not use cookies. There are no advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no social media buttons phoning home, and nothing that follows you to another website.

One small preference is stored in your browser, and two security and measurement services run on the site. All three are covered below.

What is stored on your device

That is the complete list. It contains no identifier, nothing about who you are, and nothing that can be read by another website.

How we measure traffic

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to see whether the site works — how many people visit, which pages they read, roughly where in the world they are, and how fast the pages load.

It is deliberately chosen because it does this without cookies and without building a profile. It creates no identifier for you, cannot recognise you on a return visit, and cannot see anything you do on any other website.

The security check on the audit form

The audit form runs Cloudflare Turnstile, which confirms a real browser is submitting the form rather than a script. The audit is free and requires no account, so without this it would be trivial to run at our expense.

Turnstile may store a short-lived token in your browser to remember that the check already passed. This is strictly necessary to deliver a service you asked for, and it is not used to track you.

Fonts and other external resources

We serve our own fonts from our own domain. Many sites load fonts from Google, which sends every visitor’s IP address to Google on every page view. We host them ourselves specifically to avoid that.

There are no embedded videos, maps, chat widgets or social media plugins on this site.

Why there is no cookie banner

Consent is required before storing or reading information on your device, unless what is stored is strictly necessary for a service you asked for, or is a preference you set yourself.

The language preference is a choice you made by clicking the language toggle. The security check is strictly necessary. The analytics store nothing on your device at all. Nothing here needs your consent, so asking for it would be theatre — a banner that grants permission for things that do not require permission, in exchange for a click.

If we ever add something that genuinely needs consent, you will get a real choice before it loads, and rejecting will be as easy as accepting.

Clearing what is stored

Your browser’s "clear browsing data" or "clear site data" option removes the language preference. The site will simply open in English next time and let you choose again. Nothing else about your visit is stored on your device.

More detail

For what happens to the information you type into the forms, including which third parties receive it, see the Privacy Policy.