Cookie Policy

1. What Cookies Are

Cookies and local storage mechanisms are small text files or data entries stored on your computer or mobile device when you load our website in your browser. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently and provide structural memory between page loads.

2. Why Websites Use Cookies

Without storage mechanisms, a website treats you like a completely new visitor every time you click a link. Cookies allow the site to remember fundamental decisions, preventing repetitive pop-ups and ensuring a consistent interface.

3. Essential Website Functionality

We utilise what are strictly known as "Essential Cookies". These are required for the core operation of our editorial archive. They do not track your reading habits; they simply ensure that the website's basic scripts and layout frameworks function securely.

4. Cookie Consent

When you first arrive on our website, you are presented with a cookie consent banner. This banner allows you to explicitly declare your preferences regarding the limited data we store on your device.

5. Local Storage

Instead of traditional tracking cookies, we primarily rely on a modern browser feature called Local Storage. This is generally safer and more private, as the data remains on your device and is not automatically transmitted back and forth with our server on every single request.

6. Preference Storage

Our main use of local storage is to remember whether you have clicked "Accept All" or "Reject Non-Essential" on our banner. By storing this single line of data (e.g., `radarslibrry_cookie_consent_v2`), we spare you from having to dismiss the banner on every page you read.

7. Non-Essential Cookies

While our site is highly stripped back, non-essential cookies generally refer to local storage used for remembering non-critical aesthetic settings or minor interface states. You can freely reject these without impacting your ability to read our book index.

8. Managing Cookie Preferences

We have built a dedicated "Manage Preferences" interface directly into our website. This modal window allows you to clearly understand the difference between the essential cookies that keep the site running and the non-essential ones you can toggle.

9. Accept All

Selecting "Accept All" signals to our website that you are comfortable with us using local storage for both fundamental site operation and any non-critical preference saving that enhances your overall navigation experience.

10. Reject Non-Essential

Selecting "Reject Non-Essential" restricts our use of your local browser storage to only the absolute minimum required to record your rejection, ensuring we do not store any additional interface preferences.

11. Manage Preferences

By clicking "Manage Preferences", you open a detailed breakdown of the storage categories, allowing you to explicitly tick or untick the options before saving your desired configuration to your device.

12. Changing Preferences Later

You are never locked into your decision. You can click the link at the top of this policy page at any time to reopen the preferences modal and adjust your consent choices.

13. Browser Cookie Controls

In addition to our on-site tools, you can manage or delete cookies entirely through your browser settings. Deleting the local storage data associated with our domain will simply result in the cookie consent banner appearing again as if you were a brand new visitor.

14. Cookies and Third-Party Content

As an independent editorial site, we do not deploy invasive third-party tracking cookies, such as advertising network pixels or heat-mapping software. Our storage mechanisms are strictly localized to our own domain.

15. Changes to the Cookie Policy

If we ever update the architecture of our website to include new functionality that requires different storage techniques, this policy will be updated immediately to reflect those technical changes.

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