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Draft — not yet in forceWhich cookies and similar technologies this site sets, what each one does, and how to refuse the ones that are not strictly necessary.
What follows is the agreed structure of this document, not the document itself. The binding wording is being drafted and reviewed by a qualified lawyer, and it replaces this outline before the site opens to the public. Nothing on this page creates or limits any obligation.
We publish the outline rather than a placeholder because you are entitled to know what a policy will cover before you can read it, and because a page of convincing-looking text that no lawyer has seen is worse than an empty one: there would be no way to tell the two apart.
Each heading below becomes a numbered section of the final text.
A short, non-technical explanation of what a cookie is, what local storage does, and why the two are treated together throughout this document.
Strictly necessary, preference, analytics and marketing, each listed separately with the provider and the lifetime.
How consent is requested, how it is recorded, and how it can be changed later. Must match the behaviour of the banner as actually implemented.
Browser-level controls for each major browser, and an honest account of what stops working when a category is blocked. Blocking the strictly necessary set breaks navigation; blocking the rest does not.
How this list is kept current, how often it is audited against what the site actually sets, and the date of the most recent review.
These are not adapted from a template pack. Several of the clauses only make sense here: no payment is ever taken on this domain, passwords are entered only on account pages, and all visual material is generated rather than photographed. Each of those facts changes the document that describes it, and a generic template would state the opposite.
The thirteen documents are marked as launch blockers in the project’s own route map, which means the site is not considered releasable while any of them is still an outline. The review covers United States federal requirements and state privacy law, and the set is written independently of the sibling site rather than copied across.
Twelve more documents, all at the same stage.