About Cookies

Cookie notices are often long and confusing. Ours is short, because there is very little to explain. Black Winter Day does not use tracking cookies, advertising cookies or analytics of any kind.

Last updated: October 2026

What cookies are

Cookies and similar technologies, such as local storage, are small pieces of information that a website asks your browser to keep. Many sites use them to follow visitors around, measure behaviour or show targeted adverts. We do none of those things.

The one thing we store

When you first arrive, a banner at the bottom of the page asks you to accept or decline. Whichever you press, your browser saves that choice in its local storage so the banner does not keep popping up as you move between pages.

What	Where	Purpose	How long
Your banner choice	Your browser's local storage	Stops the notice repeating	Until you clear site data

That entry holds only your answer. It is not sent to us, it does not contain personal details and it cannot be used to recognise you on other websites.

What we do not use

• No counters measuring visits, clicks or scrolling.
• No advertising or remarketing cookies.
• No share widgets from social networks quietly watching along.
• No embedded third-party players that set their own cookies.

Our hosting provider keeps basic technical logs to deliver pages securely; those are explained in Your Privacy.

Changing your mind

To reset your choice, clear the site data for blackwinterday.org in your browser. Most browsers offer this under privacy or site settings. The banner will appear again on your next visit, and you can choose differently.

You can also set your browser to block storage entirely. The magazine will still work normally; you may just see the banner on each visit.

Links to other sites

Articles sometimes send you to outside pages. Once you land there, that site may use cookies under its own policy, which we do not control.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, write to desk@blackwinterday.org or visit Talk to Us.