This page explains the cookies and similar storage technologies used on StainlessSteelPan.com. It complements the main privacy policy.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file stored in your browser when you visit a website. Cookies let sites remember things between requests — for example, that the search panel is open, or that you've already seen a particular notice. Similar technologies, including local storage and pixel tags, work in comparable ways and are covered by this policy too.
Categories of cookies in use
Strictly necessary
These are required for the site to function. They cannot be disabled without breaking parts of the site. Examples include short-lived browser storage used by the search panel and any preferences needed to render pages correctly.
Analytics
The site uses Google Analytics (loaded via the gtag.js script) to understand aggregate usage — which pages are popular, how readers move between sections, and how the site performs technically. Google Analytics typically sets cookies in the _ga family. The data is used in aggregate to improve content and structure.
Advertising
Google AdSense and its advertising partners use cookies to serve and measure ads. These cookies may be used to:
- Show ads relevant to your interests across the web (personalised advertising).
- Limit how often you see the same ad (frequency capping).
- Measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns and detect fraudulent clicks.
For more on how Google uses cookies in advertising, see Google's advertising privacy & terms.
Affiliate links
If you click an affiliate link to a third-party retailer, that retailer may set its own cookies on its domain to attribute the referral. Those cookies are governed by the retailer's privacy and cookie policies, not ours.
Managing and opting out of cookies
In your browser
You can clear cookies, block specific categories, or block third-party cookies entirely from your browser settings. The exact steps vary by browser. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will likely break parts of the site; blocking analytics or advertising cookies will not.
Opting out of personalised advertising
- Google Ad Settings — manage personalised ads across Google services and the wider Google ad network: https://www.google.com/settings/ads.
- YourOnlineChoices (EU/UK) — opt out of behavioural advertising from many participating ad networks: https://www.youronlinechoices.com/.
- About Ads (US) — opt out via the Digital Advertising Alliance: https://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Opting out of Google Analytics
Google provides a browser add-on that prevents Google Analytics from collecting information about your visits across all sites that use it: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Do Not Track
"Do Not Track" is a browser signal that asks websites not to track you. There is no industry-wide standard for how sites should respond to this signal. The site does not currently change its behaviour based on a Do Not Track header; the controls listed above are the recommended way to opt out of advertising and analytics tracking.
Changes to this cookie policy
If we change which cookies the site uses, we will update this page and refresh the "last reviewed" date at the top.
Questions
For questions about cookies on this site, get in touch via the contact page.