Privacy and cookies

This site sets no cookies. There is no account system, no newsletter sign-up and no comment form. We do not know who you are and we are not trying to find out.

There is one third-party script, and this page used to say there were none. That changed on 29 September 2026, when we added Plausible to count page views. It is the only one: no advertising script, no tag manager, no social widget, no session recorder.

What the analytics do and do not do

Plausible counts page views, unique visitors, where people arrived from, which pages are read, and the country, device type and browser. It is aggregate: we can see that forty people read the page on kidney beans, and we cannot see which forty.

Plausible states that it uses no cookies or any other persistent identifiers, and that it counts unique visitors using a random string which is reset daily. That is their description of their own product rather than something we can verify from here, and it is why this page still opens by saying the site sets no cookies.

There is no cookie banner because there is still nothing to ask you about. The law that makes sites ask, PECR, is about storing or reading information on your device. If nothing is stored, consent is not the applicable question. Had we picked an analytics product that sets a cookie, this site would need a banner, which is a substantial part of why we did not.

Why have any at all. This site is mostly a reference: sourced shelf lives, safety articles, an ingredient dataset. Knowing which of those pages anybody actually reads is the difference between writing what is useful and writing what we assume is useful. It is not used to target anything at you, because there is nothing here to target.

Affiliate links

Our kit page carries Amazon affiliate links, labelled as such at the top of the page. If you buy something after following one, we earn a small commission at no cost to you.

These are ordinary links. Nothing runs on this site to track the click, rewrite the link or work out where you are. The link carries our Associates tag and that is the whole mechanism.

What happens after you click is Amazon's business rather than ours: they set their own cookies, on their own domain, under their own privacy policy, and if you are outside the UK they may send you to your local Amazon store. None of that starts until you have left this site.

The safety reference is not monetised

There are no affiliate links in the safety reference, and there never will be. Those pages are the part of this site that has to be trustworthy, and a commission link on one would spend exactly the credibility they exist to build.

This is enforced rather than promised. The build refuses to publish a safety page containing an affiliate link, and refuses to publish one that links into the kit pages either. Routing you from an unmonetised page into a monetised one is the same transaction with an extra step.

Server logs

The site is static files served by Cloudflare, who process request data such as IP addresses to deliver pages and protect against attacks. That is ordinary hosting infrastructure rather than anything we have added, and we do not build profiles from it. It is separate from the page-view counting described above.

Contact

This site is run by Captivated Ltd. If you want something corrected, particularly anything in the safety reference, we would rather hear about it than not.