Cookie Policy

Last updated: 17 September 2026

Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies include local storage and pixels. Under EU and UK law, we may use only the ones that are strictly necessary without asking. Everything else needs your consent first.

Your choice

On your first visit, a banner asks whether you accept analytics cookies. Nothing optional from us loads until you click "Accept". You can change your mind at any time with Cookie Settings, also linked in the footer. Declining removes the analytics cookies we can reach on this domain.

For advertising, readers in the EEA, UK and Switzerland see Google's own consent message, which lets you accept, refuse or pick individual purposes.

Strictly necessary (no consent needed)

• reviewatches-session: keeps the site working between page loads. Expires after 2 hours.
• XSRF-TOKEN: protects forms against cross-site request forgery. Expires after 2 hours.
• __cf_bm, cf_clearance: set by Cloudflare to tell people from bots and block attacks. Up to 30 minutes, or as long as a security check requires.
• cookie_consent (local storage): remembers your cookie choice. Stays until you clear it.
• rw_bookmarks (local storage): the articles you saved. It stays on your device.

Statistics without cookies

We count page views with Umami, hosted on our own server. It sets no cookies and stores no IP addresses. See the Privacy Policy for details.

Analytics (only if you accept)

• Google Analytics: _ga (up to 2 years), _ga_* (up to 2 years). Measures visits and how pages are used.
• Microsoft Clarity: _clck (1 year), _clsk (1 day), and Microsoft cookies such as MUID and CLID (up to 1 year). Produces heatmaps and anonymised session replays.

Advertising (Google AdSense)

Google and its partners may set cookies such as __gads, __gpi and __eoi on this domain (up to 13 months), and IDE, NID and similar cookies on Google domains. They are used to serve and measure ads, limit how often you see an ad, detect fraud and, if you allow it, personalise ads. Where you refuse consent, Google serves non-personalised or limited ads, which may still use cookies needed for fraud prevention and frequency capping, where the law allows.

Learn more in how Google uses cookies. You can manage ad personalisation at Google Ad Settings.

Browser controls

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of the site from working.

Contact

Questions about cookies: [email protected].