This site sets no cookies
Not a reduced set, not essential-only. None. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to, and we would rather explain that once than interrupt every visit to ask permission we do not need.
What this website stores in your browser
A cookie policy is supposed to list every cookie with its purpose and lifetime. Ours is short.
| Mechanism | Used here? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cookies | None |
No first-party cookies, no third-party cookies. The site
sends no Set-Cookie header on any page.
|
| Local storage | None |
No localStorage, sessionStorage or
IndexedDB keys are written.
|
| Analytics | In use — storage-free |
Cloudflare Web Analytics, injected by our host at the edge.
It counts page views and referrers. It stores nothing on
your device: its script contains no reference to
document.cookie, localStorage,
sessionStorage or IndexedDB, and it does not
fingerprint or profile you. Because it stores nothing, PECR
consent does not apply and there is no banner. See the note
below.
|
| Advertising and tracking | None | No ad pixels, no conversion tags, no remarketing, no social embeds. |
| Third-party scripts | One, named | One script written by us and served from this domain, plus the Cloudflare analytics beacon above. Our Content Security Policy allows scripts from this origin and from that one exact file path — nothing else. No CDN, no tag manager and no ad script can execute here, and adding one would take a deliberate change to the policy. |
| Web fonts | Self-hosted | Inter is served from this domain. It is not fetched from Google Fonts, so no font request exposes your IP address to a third party. |
Why there is no cookie banner. We do measure traffic, using Cloudflare Web Analytics. We keep it because a small company needs to know whether anyone is reading its site, and we chose it over the usual options because it does the job without storing anything on your device. The rule that produces cookie banners — regulation 6 of PECR — is about storing or reading information on your equipment. This tool does neither, so there is nothing to ask your permission for, and a banner would be asking you to consent to something that is not happening. What we get is a count of pages viewed, rough location, device type and where visitors arrived from. What we do not get is any way to single you out or follow you elsewhere.
You can verify all of this yourself. Open your browser’s
developer tools, reload any page on this site, and look at the
Application and Network panels. The cookie jar will be empty and no
storage keys will be written. You will see one request to
cloudflareinsights.com — that is the analytics
beacon described above, sending a page view and nothing that
identifies you.
What does happen, because it has to
Setting no cookies is not the same as knowing nothing. Serving a website involves receiving requests, and a request carries information whether anyone wants it to or not.
Server logs at the network edge
This site is delivered by Cloudflare. To route and serve a page, Cloudflare processes your IP address, the page requested, your browser and operating system, and an approximate location derived from the IP. That is how any website works; it is not optional and it is not a cookie.
We use the aggregate view of this — which pages are popular, which countries visitors come from — in place of installing analytics. It tells us less about individuals, which is the point.
Network error reporting
Cloudflare sets standard NEL and
Report-To
response headers. If your browser fails to reach this site, it
may send a technical report about that failure to Cloudflare. It
contains connection diagnostics, not browsing history, and it is
used to detect outages.
We did not add this and cannot easily remove it, but we would rather disclose it than let you find it in the response headers and wonder what else we left out.
Cloudflare acts as our processor for delivering this site. Who else processes data on our behalf is listed on subprocessors, and what we do with personal data generally is in the privacy notice.
The application is not this website
Everything above describes ligara.org, the site you are reading. The Ligara application — the thing you sign into to analyse data — is a different piece of software, and it does use browser storage, because a workspace that forgot your theme, your column layout and your quality-control thresholds every time you opened it would be unusable.
That storage is functional: settings and preferences held on your own device. It is not analytics and not advertising. The application carries no third-party telemetry.
The precise list for the application will be published with its own privacy notice at launch. If you are evaluating Ligara for a lab and need that detail now, ask us and we will put it in writing.
What we would do
If we ever add something that stores data in your browser for a non-essential purpose, three things would happen before it ran: this page would be updated to list it, a consent banner would appear, and it would stay switched off until you chose otherwise. Declining would be exactly as easy as accepting, and you would be able to change your mind afterwards.
We have no plans to. If we want to know whether the pricing page is working we would rather use a tool that counts requests at the server than one that follows you between websites.
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Last reviewed 17 September 2026.