— COOKIE NOTICE

Cookie notice.

Last updated: 15 May 2026

The short version

juliafrank.net does not set any cookies of its own. It runs no analytics, no advertising, no retargeting, no first-party tracking. A small number of cookies may be set by the services I rely on, but only ones that are strictly necessary to deliver the site or that come into play when you actively use a feature (such as submitting the newsletter form). That's why there is no cookie banner here.

1. What a cookie is, briefly

A cookie is a small text file a website (or a service it loads) can store in your browser. It is used to remember things between page loads or visits. Cookies range from strictly necessary (keeping a session alive, holding a security token) to invasive (cross-site tracking and behavioural advertising).

2. Cookies set by this site

None. The site is a collection of static HTML, CSS, and images, served from Cloudflare Pages. It has no login, no session, no user accounts, no personalisation. There is nothing for a first-party cookie to remember.

3. Cookies from third parties

3a. Cloudflare (hosting and security)

Cloudflare may set strictly-necessary cookies for security and abuse prevention (for example, the __cf_bm bot-management cookie). These are classified as strictly necessary under ePrivacy and do not require consent. They contain no personally identifying information about you and are short-lived.

3b. Kit (newsletter)

Submitting the newsletter form sends your email address to Kit. Kit may set its own cookies as part of that submission, including session and form-state cookies on Kit's own domain. Until you submit the form, the form itself is just static HTML on this page.

3c. External sites you click through to

If you follow a link from this site to YouTube, Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, GitHub, Amazon, or any other external domain, that destination operates under its own privacy and cookie policies. I have no control over what they set.

4. What this site does not do

• No Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom, or other analytics.
• No advertising, retargeting pixels, or affiliate-tracking cookies.
• No social-media tracking pixels (Meta, X, LinkedIn).
• No fingerprinting or device-identifier collection.
• No cookie banner, because none of the cookies set on this site require consent.

5. How to control cookies anyway

Even strictly-necessary cookies can be blocked at the browser level. Each browser has a settings panel for cookies (usually under Privacy and Security). Blocking all cookies will not break this site for reading, though the newsletter form may behave oddly because Kit relies on its own state.

6. Changes to this notice

If the cookie situation changes (for example, if I add a service that sets non-essential cookies), I will update this notice and, before turning anything on, add the consent mechanism such a service requires.

7. Contact

Questions about cookies on this site, or anything you spot that doesn't match what your browser is doing: julia@juliafrank.net.