Cookie policy

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. Some are needed for a site to work; others help measure visits or show advertising.

Cookies we use today

We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which stories are read. It sets two cookies:

• _ga: tells one visitor apart from another, so a returning reader is counted once. It expires after two years.
• _ga_ followed by a code: keeps track of the current visit. It expires after two years.

Google signals and ad personalisation are switched off, so these cookies are not used to show you ads. Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, may also set a strictly necessary security cookie in some situations, for example to tell real visitors apart from automated traffic. It does not track you across sites.

The site also keeps a few settings in your browser's own storage: light or dark mode, text size, the stories you save and your cookie choice. They stay on your device and are never sent to us. The calculators store nothing: what you type is gone when you close the page, unless you copy a share link yourself.

Your choice

If you visit from the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, no analytics cookie is set until you choose Allow. Everywhere else, visits are counted unless you opt out, and if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal we treat it as an opt-out. You can change your choice at any time, here or from Cookie settings at the bottom of every page.

Change your cookie choice

Cookies we may use in future

• Advertising cookies, if we show ads (for example through Google AdSense). These are used to show and measure ads and may be used to personalise them.
• Affiliate cookies, set by a merchant's website when you follow an affiliate link, to record the referral.

Before any non-essential cookies are used for visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, we will ask for consent, and you will be able to change your choice at any time.

How to control cookies

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. You can also stop Google Analytics on every site with Google's opt-out browser add-on. You can opt out of personalised Google ads in Google Ads Settings. Blocking cookies will not stop you from reading anything on this site.

Questions? See our privacy policy or email hello@monypulse.com.