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Cookies, Briefly
Cookie notices are often long because the sites behind them do a lot of tracking. Ours can be short, because this site does none.
What we store
Exactly one thing: your answer to the banner that appears on your first visit. When you choose to accept or decline, the browser saves that choice in its local storage, a small private space each website gets on your own device. Its only purpose is to stop the banner from popping up again on every page.
- It does not contain your name, email or IP address.
- It is never sent to us or to anyone else.
- It stays until you clear it.
What we do not use
| Type | Used here? |
|---|---|
| Analytics or visitor statistics | No |
| Advertising or retargeting cookies | No |
| Social media buttons that track you | No |
| Login or session cookies | No, there are no accounts |
Choosing "decline" does not switch off any features, because there is nothing optional to switch off. Every page works exactly the same either way.
How to clear your choice
Open your browser's settings, look for the section on cookies and site data, find cyclecharlotte.org and remove its stored data. The banner will greet you again on your next visit. In a private browsing window, the choice disappears on its own as soon as that window is shut.
Why we chose to keep it this way
Measuring visitors would tell us which articles are popular, but it would also mean handing information about you to third parties or running extra scripts on every page. We decided the trade was not worth it. We learn what readers want from the emails they send, and the pages load faster without the extra baggage.
Should that ever change, for instance if we added a feature that needed to remember something more, this page and the banner would be updated first, and nothing optional would run until you agreed.
Other websites
Our articles occasionally send you on to pages run by others, and those sites may well set cookies of their own. Their rules apply once you are there, not ours.
More detail
Hosting logs, emails and your data protection rights are explained on Your Privacy. If you still have a question, write to us via the contact page.
Last updated: October 2026.