§Cookie policy
Cookie policy
Last reviewed: 19 August 2026. Costely sets no advertising cookies, no analytics cookies and no third-party trackers. This page lists everything the site does store, which is one preference.
What is stored
- cst_ck_v1 — first-party, written only when you dismiss the cookie notice, kept for one year, mirrored in local storage. Purpose: to keep the notice from reappearing. It holds the value 1 and nothing else: no identifier, no history, no profile.
- WordPress technical cookies — set only for logged-in editors of the site, never for ordinary readers.
That is the whole list. There is no analytics service, no tag manager, no advertising network, no social pixel, no embedded video and no consent-management vendor.
Why there is a notice but no consent gate
Under the EU e-Privacy rules consent is needed to store or read information on your device for anything that is not strictly necessary. Nothing here falls into that class, so there is nothing to ask permission for, and a banner with an accept button would be asking you to approve something that does not happen. The notice therefore informs and closes; it does not gate the site.
Fonts
Typefaces come from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts a Google server and that server sees your IP address. No cookie is set by the request, but it is a transfer of data to a third party and we mention it plainly here and in the privacy policy. Serving the fonts from our own domain would remove even that, and we would rather do it.
Votes
The vote widget stores nothing in your browser. The counter lives on the server, and a short-lived server-side guard keyed by a hash of your IP address stops one reader voting repeatedly on the same page.
Removing what is stored
Clear cookies and site data for this domain in your browser settings, and the preference is gone; the notice will appear again on your next visit. Any browser also lets you block cookies entirely — the site works exactly the same without them, except that the notice returns each time.