§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 what the site stores, which is nothing at all.

What is stored

Nothing. Reading this site leaves no cookie and nothing in local storage. The only exception is WordPress’s own technical cookies, which are set for logged-in editors of the site and never for ordinary readers.

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 no consent banner

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 of that kind happens here, so there is nothing to ask permission for. A banner would be asking you to approve something that does not exist, and we would rather not train anyone to click through those. If advertising is added later, a proper consent tool will appear with it and this page will say so.

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 guard that expires after sixty seconds — filed under a keyed hash of your address, never the address itself — stops one reader voting repeatedly on the same page.

Blocking cookies

Any browser lets you block cookies for a site. Here it changes nothing at all, because nothing is set: every table, comparison and page works the same.