Cookie Policy

What they are

Cookies and local storage are small pieces of data a site keeps in your browser. Some are essential for the site to work or stay secure; others are used for measurement or ad personalisation.

What we use

• Cloudflare Turnstile (third party, strictly necessary): only when you use a form, Cloudflare may keep technical signals in the verification frame (challenges.cloudflare.com) to tell people from bots. Duration: the session or as set by Cloudflare.
• Cloudflare security (strictly necessary): Cloudflare’s network may set a technical bot-protection cookie (for example __cf_bm, about 30 minutes) when it detects suspicious traffic.
• hg-fsd-score-draft (first-party local storage, functional): only if you use the FSD scoring tool, it keeps your answers in your browser so a reload does not lose them. It is never sent to the server and lasts until you clear the site’s data.

Analytics (Cloudflare Web Analytics) and our performance measurement use no cookies or identifiers. Video thumbnails load from YouTube (i.ytimg.com) as plain images, with no embedded player and no YouTube cookies.

Why is there no consent banner?

Laws requiring prior consent (such as the EU ePrivacy Directive) exempt cookies strictly necessary for a service you request, such as verifying a form or keeping your draft. Since we use no others, there is nothing to accept or reject. If we ever add non-essential cookies (cookie-based analytics, advertising, embedded videos), we will ask for your consent before enabling them and update this policy.

How to control them

You can block or delete cookies and local storage from your browser settings. If you block Cloudflare’s, the forms may not work; the rest of the site will. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control requests are honoured by default: we do no cross-site tracking.

More details in the Privacy Policy. Questions: [email protected].