Cookie notice
Last updated · May 2026
We keep cookies to a minimum across our global platform. Below is a plain-English rundown of the few we rely on and the reason each one exists.
Strictly necessary cookies
These are the ones that simply make the site run: session cookies that keep you logged in, CSRF cookies that protect your form submissions, and consent cookies that store the preference you set on this banner. They can't be switched off, because the site won't operate without them.
Analytics cookies
To see which pages are genuinely helpful to authors worldwide and where visitors run into friction, we rely on privacy-first analytics. None of it captures information that personally identifies you, and none of it tracks you as you move around the wider web.
Marketing cookies
Third-party advertising cookies have no place here. What we do use are first-party UTM tags so we can credit an enquiry to wherever it originated — a Google search, our newsletter, a recommendation from a fellow author. That attribution never leaves our own systems and is never handed off to ad networks.
Managing cookies
At any point you're free to wipe cookies through your browser settings. Keep in mind that doing this will log you out and bring the cookie banner back.