Cookies and privacy
This page explains the cookies Cookeryonline uses, how Google’s consent message works, and how to change your mind later. We have written it in plain English.
What this site uses cookies for
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your device. We use cookies for two things:
- Analytics – so we can see, in broad terms, how many people use the site and which pages are useful. We do this with Google Analytics 4.
- Advertising – Google AdSense shows adverts on the site, which helps keep Cookeryonline free to use. Google may set its own cookies for that.
We do not use cookies to collect your name, address, email or phone number, and we do not sell your details.
Your choice
If you visit from the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google’s own consent message appears. It is the AdSense Privacy & messaging “European regulations” message, which is Google’s certified consent tool.
The message asks for your consent before analytics and advertising cookies are used for those purposes. You can agree, refuse, or open more detailed options. Visitors from other countries do not normally see it.
Until you agree, analytics and advertising storage stay off in those regions.
To change your choice later, use Cookie settings in the site footer, or the same link here. That reopens Google’s message.
Google Analytics cookies
If you agree, Google Analytics 4 may set these first-party cookies on cookeryonline.com:
- _ga – distinguishes one browser from another, typically kept for up to two years.
- _ga_* (for example _ga_YNCSYG2179, from our Google Analytics 4 property G-YNCSYG2179) – keeps a record of the current Analytics session, also typically up to two years.
If you refuse, or later withdraw your consent, these cookies are not used. Google publishes more detail in its Analytics cookie documentation.
Google AdSense
We use Google AdSense to show adverts. Google is a third-party advertising company. It may use information about your visits to this and other websites (not your name, address, email or phone number) to show adverts. How Google uses this information.
Google’s consent message is a Google-certified consent platform (a CMP) for the UK, the EEA and Switzerland. If you agree, personalised AdSense adverts can be shown. If you refuse, you will still see the site as normal; ads may be less targeted, or fewer.
How to change your choice
Open Cookie settings from the footer on any page, or from this page. That reopens Google’s consent message so you can agree, refuse or update your options. You can also clear this site’s data in your browser settings.