Cookie policy

What storage this reference uses

A cookie is a small item of data that a site may ask a browser to keep, so that the browser can present it again on a later request. This reference uses storage of that kind only for necessary purposes. There is no advertising storage, no analytics storage and no storage that follows a reader to another site. The reference contains no scripting, so there is nothing on the page that could place a tracking item on a reader's device.

Why necessary storage is present

Necessary storage supports functions without which a page cannot work as intended. If a browser or an intermediate server keeps a short-lived item to balance load or to hold a preference that the reader has set, that item serves the reader directly and is not used for any other end. Such items are not shared with third parties, and they are not combined with any other information to identify a person.

What is not used

No advertising network is present. No measurement service is present. No social feature is embedded. No item survives to build a picture of a reader's interests across pages or across sites. Because the reference is built as plain pages with a single stylesheet and a small icon, the surface on which such items could sit does not exist in the first place.

Your choices

Every browser provides a way to see, to limit and to remove stored items. A reader who wishes to inspect or to clear what a site has kept may do so through the settings of the browser itself. Blocking necessary storage may change how some pages display, but the text of this reference remains readable, since its content does not depend on storage to appear.

Items set by others

This reference does not invite other parties onto its pages, and it carries no embedded content from elsewhere. If a reader reaches these pages through a search engine or a social service, that service may keep its own storage in the ordinary course of its own operation. Such storage belongs to that service and is governed by its own policy, not by this one, and the editorial office has no access to it.

Changes to this policy

Should the way this reference uses storage ever change, the change would be recorded on this page before it took effect, and the revision of the reference would advance in the title block. The editorial office undertakes to keep this policy matched to what the reference actually does, so that a reader is never told one thing while the pages do another. A question about this policy may be sent to the address in the footer.

Summary

In one paragraph: this reference uses necessary storage only, for the pages to load and display correctly; it uses no advertising and no analytics items; it contains no scripting; and a reader may inspect or clear whatever a browser holds at any time through the browser's own settings. That is the whole of the practice, and the rest of this page exists only to state it in the form a formal notice expects.