Cookie Policy

This site sets no cookies of its own. Not one. There is no session to remember, no login to keep alive and no visitor to recognise on the way back. One preference does get stored — whether you have closed the notice in the corner — and section 03 covers it.

That is why the notice in the corner has no Accept button. It is not a consent banner and does not pretend to be: there is nothing to ask you about. A consent dialog here would be theatre.

A small text file a website asks your browser to keep, and hands back on your next request. That is the whole mechanism. Cookies are how a shopping cart survives a page reload and how a login lasts longer than one click.

They are neither sinister nor innocent by nature — it depends entirely on what is written in them and who gets to read it. A cookie holding your language preference and a cookie stitching your behaviour across four hundred sites are the same technology doing opposite jobs.

Because it does not need them. This is a set of pages you read. There is no account, no cart, no form, no saved settings and no personalisation — so there is nothing worth writing to your browser.

There is exactly one exception, and it exists because of the notice in the corner of your screen. Closing that notice writes a single flag — ignition:notice-dismissed — to localStorage, so it does not ask you again on the next page. It holds the value 1. It is not an identifier, it is not sent anywhere, and it is the only thing this site writes to your browser.

When you follow one of our links to Ignition, the affiliate network that tracks the referral may set a cookie so the commission is attributed correctly. That cookie is set by the network on its own domain. We do not create it, cannot read it and do not receive its contents.

It exists to answer one question: did this visitor arrive from that site. It is what makes the commission model work, and we would rather explain it than let you find it in a browser panel and wonder.

This list is the point of the page. Most sites in this category cannot write it honestly, and it is checked against the built site rather than asserted:

• No Google Analytics, and no analytics of any other brand
• No Meta Pixel, no TikTok pixel, no conversion tracking of any kind
• No advertising or retargeting tags — you will not be followed around the internet from here
• No session recording, heatmaps or scroll tracking
• No browser fingerprinting
• No social media embeds, which are tracking cookies wearing a friendly face
• No fonts, scripts or images loaded from anyone else's server

That last one matters more than it looks. Every third-party asset on a page is a request to somebody else's server, and a request carries your address whether or not a cookie comes back. The fonts on this site are served from this site for that reason.

Everything above describes this website. It does not describe Ignition, and it is not meant to.

The operator runs accounts, balances, sessions and payments, and that genuinely requires cookies. It will also almost certainly use analytics and marketing tools of its own. Its cookie policy is its own document, published on its own site, and it applies the moment you arrive there.

Read theirs before you register. Ours describes a website you read. Theirs describes the place that will hold your money.

Every browser lets you do it, and nothing on this site breaks if you do. In Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge the controls live under privacy settings, usually within two clicks of the address bar.

• Block third-party cookies — stops most cross-site tracking, including the affiliate cookie
• Clear cookies on exit — a clean slate at the end of every session
• Use private or incognito mode — cookies are discarded when the window closes
• Install a content blocker — blocks the request before a cookie is ever offered

Blocking cookies site-wide will break other websites — the ones with logins and carts genuinely need them. This one will not notice.

Send either signal and this site honours it by default, which is easy to promise when there is nothing to switch off. There is no tracking here to disable, with or without the header.

Be sceptical of sites that make a feature of honouring DNT. The signal has no legal force in Australia and most of the web ignores it. What a site actually loads is the only claim worth checking, and it is checkable — the network panel does not lie.

It is not a consent banner, and the difference is not pedantry. A consent banner asks permission to track you. There is no tracking here, so there is nothing to permit — which is why the notice has no Accept button, no Reject button and no preference centre with forty toggles pre-switched to on.

It is a notice. It tells you the unusual thing — that this site sets no cookies at all — and points you here so you can verify it rather than believe it.

Australia has no GDPR-style requirement for a cookie banner in the first place. The Privacy Act 1988 governs how personal information is handled, not whether a browser is asked to keep a text file. The banners you see on Australian sites are usually there because the site also serves Europe, or because a template arrived with one attached.

Adding analytics or advertising tools would make everything above false. If that happens, this page gets rewritten before the tools go live — not afterwards, and not quietly. The date at the top will say when.

A cookie policy describing a site that no longer exists is worse than no policy at all: it is a false statement made in writing to people who trusted it.