Cookie Policy

Last updated: 2026-08-03

Cookie Types

Cookies here fall into essential, analytics and advertising. Essential ones make the site work and remember your preference about the others. Analytics ones — only where an analytics provider is active — tell us in aggregate what is being read. Advertising ones — only where ads are served — come from ad partners and support measurement and personalisation.

Taking Control

Cookies can be blocked or removed from your browser’s privacy settings, and the consent banner (where shown) stores your decision. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals are respected. Bear in mind that essential cookies are load-bearing for site function, while analytics and advertising cookies are not.

Partner Cookies

Analytics and advertising vendors that set cookies here do so under their own terms, and we do not control what they collect. Cross-vendor opt-outs are available via the DAA, the NAI, or Your Online Choices for European readers.

What These Files Are

Cookies are small files stored by your browser at a site’s request. They let a site remember something from one page or one visit to the next. Related technologies such as local storage and tracking pixels serve the same function, and this policy covers them equally.

Talk to Us

Write to hello@velvetchalk.com with anything about this policy or your information.

Effective: 3 August 2026