Cookie policy

In short: only if you say yes

Opening this page writes no cookies. Before we measure anything we ask, and until you say yes your browser does not request a single byte from Google.

If you accept, two Google Analytics cookies are set. If you decline — or close the notice without answering — none are, and the site works exactly the same: no part of it depends on this.

What we measure, with what, and what we don't

We use Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager to learn which pages get read, where people leave, and which campaigns bring visits. It informs what we write and what we fix; it is not used to identify you.

There are no advertising pixels, no remarketing networks, no embedded videos and no social buttons. Google's advertising permissions — personalised ads and advertising use of data — stay denied even when you accept measurement: what you are asked for is permission to measure, and that is not permission to profile.

Typefaces are downloaded at build time and served from our own server, so they generate no request to Google either before or after you accept.

The server hosting the site does log the requests it receives — IP address, date, time and user agent — because without that log it cannot be operated or defended from abuse. That is not a cookie and does not depend on your answer: it is a server log, and the privacy policy covers it.

What is stored in your browser

Two things you trigger yourself, and two more cookies only if you accept measurement:

Your answer to the measurement question

Kept in local storage — not in a cookie — under the key “kb.consent.analytics”, holding the word “granted” or “denied”. It exists so you are not asked again on every page. It never leaves your browser.

Theme preference

Also in local storage, under the key “theme”, and only when you press the light-and-dark switch. It holds “light” or “dark” and nothing else.

_ga · Google Analytics cookie

Only if you accept. Tells one browser from another so the same visit is not counted twice. Expires after two years. It is a first-party cookie: Google's script writes it from kodiakbase.com.

_ga_PYKVBEGJ7D · Google Analytics cookie

Only if you accept. Holds session state for this particular property. Expires after two years.

Language

Stored nowhere: it lives in the address itself, at /es or /en. Switching language means switching URL, so there is nothing to remember.

How consent is asked for

Article 5.3 of Directive 2002/58/EC requires prior consent to store information on your device, except where that storage is strictly necessary for a service you expressly requested. Measurement is not, so permission is asked for before rather than after.

Here “before” means before anything loads: Google's script is not downloaded until you accept. That is stricter than the usual consent-mode setup, which loads the tags regardless and merely refrains from writing cookies while permission is denied.

Accept and decline are the same button, at the same size and the same visual weight. Closing the notice without answering is not accepting: with no answer, nothing loads.

The theme preference needs no consent and falls under the 5.3 exception: the browser writes it only when you press the switch, it serves only to remember that choice, and it cannot identify you or follow you across sites.

Changing your mind, or clearing everything

Clear this site's data from your browser settings. That removes the Google cookies, the theme preference and your answer; next time you visit you will be asked again.

You can also block storage for this domain. The site will keep working: it simply will not remember the theme or your answer, and the notice will appear on every visit.

And you can block Google Analytics across every site at once with the opt-out add-on Google publishes for your browser.

If this changes

This page describes what exists today, not what is planned. If another tool is installed, or the one here starts doing something different, this policy is rewritten in the same change that installs it, never afterwards.

The above is checkable: the list of cookies and the moment they load are pinned by the site's own automated tests. The date in the heading says when that was last verified.