Cookies and Tracking
This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics. Here is the full inventory, so you can check.
1. Our position
Consent banners are mostly a symptom of a business model we do not have. We do not need to know which pages you read in order to do our work, so we do not measure it in a way that identifies you.
Concretely, this site does not use:
- analytics cookies or analytics scripts of any kind, including Google Analytics;
- advertising or conversion pixels, including Meta, LinkedIn, Google Ads and X;
- session recording, heatmapping or scroll tracking;
- device fingerprinting;
- cross-site or cross-device tracking, retargeting or audience building;
- social media embeds or share widgets that call third-party servers;
- consent-or-pay walls, or any wall at all.
2. What this site actually stores and calls
| Item | Type | Purpose | Consent needed? |
|---|---|---|---|
| None | First-party cookie | — | — |
| None | Third-party cookie | — | — |
| None | localStorage / sessionStorage | — | — |
| None | Third-party network request | The site makes no third-party requests. Fonts are served from our own domain. | — |
| Cloudflare edge and security processing | Server-side; no cookie set on this site | Delivering the site and protecting it against attack and abusive crawling | Strictly necessary. No consent required. |
This table is a compliance record, not a marketing claim. We re-verify it against the deployed site after every release, and correct it the same day if anything changes.
3. The rules we are applying
Switzerland. Article 45c(b) of the Telecommunications Act permits processing data on your device where you are informed of the processing and its purpose and told that you may refuse it. On its face that is an information-and-refusal regime rather than a prior-consent regime. But the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner's guidance on cookies and similar technologies — version 1.0 of 22 January 2025, updated to version 1.1 on 6 October 2025 — reads the FADP as requiring express opt-in for third-party, marketing, cross-site and profiling technologies, requires non-essential technologies to be blocked until consent, requires refusal to be as easy as acceptance, and prohibits dark patterns. Swiss practice has converged substantially on the EU position, and we apply the stricter reading.
European Union and EEA. Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC permits storing or accessing information on your device only with your prior informed consent, except where strictly necessary to transmit a communication or to provide a service you explicitly requested. Consent must meet the GDPR standard, and the European Data Protection Board's Cookie Banner Taskforce report of 17 January 2023 confirms that legitimate interest cannot substitute for it, that pre-ticked boxes are invalid, and that a first-layer banner without an equally prominent refusal option is an infringement.
Because we store nothing on your device beyond what is strictly necessary to serve the page, neither regime requires us to ask you for consent. We publish this page anyway, so that you can verify that for yourself.
4. If we ever add analytics
If we decide we need audience measurement we will do it in this order of preference, and we will update this page and the Privacy Notice before, not after:
- Server-log analysis with immediate IP truncation, carried out by us, with no third-party disclosure and no device storage.
- Cookieless, first-party, aggregate analytics hosted in Switzerland or the EEA, retaining no cross-site identifier, sharing nothing with third parties for their own purposes, and with a documented assessment of why it needs no consent.
- If neither is sufficient, a genuine consent mechanism: nothing non-essential firing before consent; "Accept all" and "Reject all" of equal prominence on the first layer; granular per-purpose choices; no pre-ticked boxes; every third party named; a permanent way to withdraw consent from the footer; and a consent log. It will be keyboard-operable and screen-reader accessible.
We will not adopt Google Analytics or any advertising-network tag on this site.
5. How to check this yourself
You do not need to take our word for it. Open your browser's developer tools, reload this page, and inspect the Network and Application panels. If you find something that contradicts this page, please tell us at [email protected] — we would rather hear it from you than not know.