Cookies

1. Nothing is set until you agree

The first time you open speeku.com a band at the foot of the page asks whether we may count visits. Until you answer it, no analytics code is loaded and no cookie is written. If you press Reject, none ever is. This is the whole of our cookie practice, and the rest of this page is the detail behind it.

2. The three

Two are Google Analytics, which tells us how many people arrive and which pages they read. The third is the answer you gave to the question above, which we have to keep somewhere or we would ask again on every page.

NameSet byWhat it doesHow long
_gaGoogle AnalyticsHolds a randomly generated number that tells one browser apart from another, so a person who reads three pages is counted as one visitor rather than three180 days
_ga_E3RTWYGJ2PGoogle AnalyticsHolds the state of the visit itself, so that a visit is counted once and its pages are counted in order180 days
speeku.consentThis websiteYour answer to the cookie question, with the date you gave it, so we do not ask again on the next page. It is browser storage rather than a cookie, it is never sent to us or to anyone else, and it is written whichever way you answer180 days

After 180 days the answer expires and the band asks again, and the two Google cookies are set to expire on the same day rather than the two years Google Analytics uses by default. One number, so that what we ask for and what we keep are the same length.

3. What we do with the analytics

We look at how many people arrive, which of the three course pages they read, and which country the visit came from. That is the whole of it. The reports are aggregate: we cannot tell who you are from them, we do not combine them with anything else, and there is no advertising, no profiling and no tracking of you across other websites. Google Ireland Limited processes that data on our behalf, and it may be transferred to Google servers outside Switzerland and the European Economic Area.

4. Change your mind

Whatever you answered, you can answer again here, and it takes effect immediately.

5. Blocking them yourself

Every browser can refuse cookies or delete the ones it holds, usually under Settings, then Privacy. Doing that also clears the answer above, so this site will ask you again on your next visit. Google also publishes a browser add-on that turns Google Analytics off on every website at once.

6. What this site does not do

7. Questions

Write to contact@speeku.com. The wider picture is in our Privacy Policy, and who we are is in the Imprint.