Cookie policy
Effective 2026-08-22. Operated by ShowStone.
What ShowStone stores in your browser, how it counts visits, and what needs your permission.
Who sets them
Cookies on this site are set by ShowStone and, only with your permission, by the analytics providers named below. Questions go to [email protected].
What we set
A session cookie so that you stay signed in. A short-lived cookie during a sign-in handover, discarded the moment it is used. A preferences cookie holding your theme, text size and reading font. A consent cookie remembering the choice you made about cookies. All four are necessary or functional, and the site does not work properly without the first.
How we measure visits
Every visit is counted by Rybbit, which we run on our own servers. It sets no cookie and stores nothing in your browser, it does not keep your IP address, and the code that tells one visit from another changes every day, so it cannot follow you from one day to the next. It sees the page you opened, the site that sent you and your kind of device - never who you are. It runs whether or not you accept cookies, because it sets none. If you choose "Accept all", we may also use Microsoft Clarity, Google Analytics or PostHog on this site; they set their own cookies to show us how pages are used, and none of them starts before you choose. Cookie settings, at the bottom of every page, lists exactly which of them run here. There are no advertising cookies, and we never sell or share what we learn.
Third parties
Our sign-in providers set their own cookies on their own pages when you choose to sign in through them. Those are theirs, governed by their policies, and we neither read nor control them.
Turning them off
Choose Cookie settings at the bottom of any page to change your answer; the tools that need your permission stop as soon as you withdraw it. Your browser can also block or delete any cookie. Blocking the session cookie will stop you signing in; blocking the preferences cookie means the site forgets your theme between visits.
Changes to this policy
A material change is published here with a new effective date, and the banner asks you again. Earlier versions stay on record.
Contact
Cookie questions go to [email protected].