What a cookie is, in a sentence
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to remember, so it can recognise you on the next page or visit. Most cookies live for a single visit and disappear when you close the tab. A few live longer.
Cookies we consider essential
These are the small pieces that make the site work. They do not follow you anywhere; they tell no one anything about you. They are set whether or not you accept a banner, because the site cannot really do without them.
- session — keeps your form half-typed if you click away to check the screen model. Expires when you close the tab.
- csrf — a short token that proves a form submission came from your browser, not from a malicious page. Expires after thirty minutes of inactivity.
- cookie-consent — remembers your answer to the cookie banner so we do not ask again every visit. Expires after twelve months.
Cookies for honest analytics
We use one privacy-friendly analytics tool to understand which pages people find useful and which ones we should rewrite. It does not set advertising cookies, does not follow you across other websites, and does not collect personal information.
- _pa — a rolling daily identifier used only to count unique daily visitors. It does not identify you and is reset every twenty-four hours.
If you would rather not be counted at all, you can refuse the analytics cookie from the banner and we will respect that for twelve months. Refusing it does not change anything about how the site behaves for you.
Cookies we do not set
Because we do not sell advertising, retarget visitors, or run social pixels, we do not set:
- Advertising or marketing cookies.
- Social network tracking cookies.
- Cross-site identifiers that follow you elsewhere.
If you visit mountzen.online and then see a Mount Zen advert somewhere else on the web later, it isn't us. Let us know — that would be a fault in our setup we would want to fix.
How to turn cookies off
You can refuse non-essential cookies from the banner the first time you visit. You can also clear or block cookies in your browser settings — every browser explains how on its own help pages. Refusing the essential cookies means parts of the site (the form especially) will not work properly.
Changes to this list
If we add a cookie, this list is updated and the "last reviewed" date at the top of the page changes. We will never quietly add a tracker to the site between reviews.
Asking us about a cookie
If you would like to know more about any cookie on the site, or you have spotted something you do not recognise, write to studio@mountzen.online. We answer in plain language.