The short version
This website uses only the cookies it needs to work, plus, if you allow them, cookies that tell us which pages people find useful.
You choose. You can change your mind at any time using the cookie settings button in the corner of every page, and your choice is remembered for 13 months.
1. What a cookie is
A small file a website stores in your browser. Some are essential, for instance to remember that you are signed in. Others are optional, and exist to measure how the site is used.
2. The categories, and what they do
| Category | What it is for | Can you turn it off? |
|---|---|---|
| Necessary | Makes the site work: security, load balancing, and remembering your cookie choice itself. | No. Without these the site cannot function. |
| Functional | Remembers preferences, so the site behaves the way you left it. | Yes |
| Analytics | Tells us which pages are read and which are ignored, so we can improve them. | Yes |
| Marketing | Measures whether our advertising reaches people who actually want hosting. | Yes |
| Sale or sharing | A US state privacy control. We do not sell personal data, and you can switch this off regardless. | Yes |
3. How to change your mind
Use the cookie settings button at the bottom left of any page. It is always there, and it lets you change or withdraw your choice as easily as you gave it.
4. Where you are changes what we ask
Privacy law is not the same everywhere, so we behave differently depending on where you are:
- In the UK, EU, EEA, Switzerland, Brazil or Quebec, nothing optional runs until you explicitly say yes. Rejecting is exactly as easy as accepting.
- In US states with privacy laws, you get a clear accept, reject or customise choice, and we honour the Global Privacy Control signal automatically if your browser sends it.
- Everywhere else, we tell you plainly what we use and let you change it whenever you like.
5. Global Privacy Control
If your browser sends a GPC signal, we act on it without being asked. Marketing and any sale or sharing category are switched off for you automatically.
6. Your control panel
Once you sign in to your hosting panel, we use a session cookie to keep you signed in. That one is necessary, and it is not used for tracking.
7. Questions
Write to [email protected]. See also our Privacy Policy.