Cookies Policy

This website has no accounts and no shopping basket, so the number of cookies is small. They exist to keep pages working, to remember a couple of harmless choices, to produce aggregate statistics about which guides are read, and to support the advertising that pays for the servers.

These allow the page to load correctly, balance traffic between servers and protect the website against automated abuse. They carry no advertising value and cannot be switched off from within the website, because without them parts of the page will not function. Most expire when you close the browser.

These remember small interface choices, such as whether you have already dismissed a notice or installed the app shortcut, so the website does not repeat itself on your next visit. They hold a simple value and no personal details.

Aggregated statistics tell us how many people opened a page, which guide answers a question and where visitors run into trouble. The reports we see are grouped totals and do not identify individual people. These cookies typically last for a limited period and are then renewed or dropped.

Advertising networks, including Google, may set their own cookies or read device identifiers to choose an advertisement, to limit how often the same advertisement is shown and to measure whether a campaign worked. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this and other websites.

These cookies are controlled by the networks under their own privacy policies, not by us. You can turn off personalised advertising in your Google Ads settings, and where consent rules apply you will be asked before non-essential cookies are placed.

If you add the website to your home screen, your browser may keep a small amount of local storage and a cached copy of the interface so it opens quickly and still shows a proper screen when you are offline. That data lives on your own device and can be cleared by removing the installed shortcut or clearing site data.

• Chrome: Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies and Site data.
• Safari: Settings, then Safari, then Clear History and Website Data, or Advanced for per-site data.
• Firefox: Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Cookies and Site Data.
• Edge: Settings, then Cookies and site permissions.

You may also browse in a private window, which discards cookies when you close it. Blocking cookies does not stop you from pasting a link and saving a file, although some convenience features will forget your choices.

Browsers send Do Not Track signals in different ways and there is no agreed standard for honouring them. We do not run our own tracking network, and for advertising you should use the controls provided by the advertising platform, which are more reliable.

As the website or our advertising partners change, this page is updated and the date above is revised. If you want to know more about a specific cookie you see in your browser, ask us through the contact page and we will explain what it does.