Cookies

What we use

Unless you allow Google Analytics, our public pages set no cookies. Fonts, photos and the background videos are served from this website's own server, without Google or other outside services that would follow you from site to site. The exceptions are Google Analytics, only if you allow it, and the videos at the top of the About and Online Community pages, both described below.

Google Analytics (only with your consent)

When you first open the site, a notice at the bottom asks whether we may use Google Analytics. It loads only if you click Accept. It then shows us, in statistics, which pages are read and how visitors find the site: the pages you open, how you arrived (for example from a search engine or a link), your type of device and browser, and your approximate location (country and city). Analytics doesn't store your IP address, we don't use the data for advertising, and Google signals is turned off. Data that can be linked to your browser is kept for 14 months, after which only totals remain.

Google Analytics then sets two cookies:

• _ga tells visits from the same browser apart. It is kept for 2 years.
• _ga_HVCY2EHLL6 keeps the state of your current visit. It is kept for 2 years.

The service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Ireland (EU). Google may also process the data in the USA; such transfers rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. See Google's privacy policy.

If you click Decline, Google Analytics doesn't load at all. Your answer is kept in your browser's local storage, not in a cookie, so the notice doesn't come back on every page. You can change it at any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of every page. If you withdraw your consent, the Analytics cookies are deleted.

YouTube videos

The videos at the top of the About and Online Community pages play from YouTube as soon as the page opens, unless your device is set to reduce motion or save data. They load through youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, and Google's (YouTube's) privacy policy applies.

Some blog articles contain YouTube videos. Until you press play, you only see an image served from our own server and nothing loads from YouTube. Once you press play, the video loads through youtube-nocookie.com and Google's (YouTube's) privacy policy applies.

Links to other sites

When you follow a link to Skool, Instagram or another network, you move to their site, where their own cookie and privacy policies apply.

If this changes

If we add other cookies that the site doesn't strictly need, we will ask for your consent first and update this page.

How we handle personal data is described in the Privacy Policy.