Cookie policy.
Cookies are small files a website can save in your browser. Many are used to follow people around the internet for advertising. Our website aims to use no tracking cookies at all. This page lists what our site does store, which today is a copy of our page design to help pages load and what our chat needs to keep your conversation, and is honest about the one outside service it uses: Google Fonts.
Questions about this page?
Email hello@penguina.website.
In short: penguina.website aims to use no tracking cookies and runs no advertising pixels. Any cookie we ever need will be essential to keep the site working or secure, and we'll list it here. Our fonts load from Google Fonts, which means your browser contacts Google to fetch them.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves in your browser. The next time you visit, the website can read it back. Some cookies are useful, for example to keep you signed in. Others exist to track what you do across many websites, usually so you can be shown ads. Similar tools, such as "pixels" and browser storage, can do the same job without being called cookies. This policy covers all of them.
Which cookies does penguina.website use?
| Type | On our website | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|
| Essential cookies | None of our own today. Only if needed to keep the site working or secure | If our hosting ever needs one, for example to tell real visitors apart from harmful bots, we'll list it on this page with its name and purpose |
| Saved design files | A copy of our page design (styles, menu and footer) kept in your browser's storage | Pages load faster after your first visit. It holds nothing about you, and clearing your browser data removes it |
| Chat | A cookie and a saved copy of the chat window, so your conversation is there when you come back | Only used for our chat. It holds no advertising data, and clearing your browser data removes it |
| Visitor counting | None today | If we add a counting tool, we list it here first |
| Advertising cookies and pixels | None | Visiting our site won't lead to ads following you elsewhere |
| Social media trackers | None | We don't embed social media feeds or "like" buttons that track you |
| Preference cookies | None | We don't need to remember settings about you |
Because we don't use tracking cookies, you won't see a pop-up on our site asking you to accept them.
What about Google Fonts?
We want to be honest about this one. The fonts on our website currently load from Google Fonts, a free service run by Google. When a page opens, your browser downloads the fonts from Google's servers. Like any request on the internet, that means Google receives your IP address and basic details about your browser, such as its type and language.
We don't receive anything back from Google about you, and we don't use Google Fonts to track you. How Google handles that information is set out in Google's privacy policy. Our plan is to serve the fonts from our own website instead, so your browser doesn't need to contact anyone else. When that's done, we'll update this page.
How do you count visitors without cookies?
We want to know which pages are useful, for example how many people read our pricing page this month. We don't need to know who they were. Right now we don't run any visitor counting tool. If we add one, we'll name it here, with what it records, before it goes live. Our privacy policy explains the rest of what we collect.
How can I control cookies myself?
Every modern browser lets you see, block and delete cookies, usually under Settings, then Privacy. You can block all cookies, or only those from other websites. Blocking cookies won't stop our website working, because we don't rely on them.
If we add visitor counting, we'll also add a clear link so you can switch it off for your browser with one click.
What about the websites you look after for clients?
This policy only covers penguina.website. Each website we look after belongs to its owner, and its cookies are covered by that owner's own cookie policy. We help our clients keep their cookie banners working and their lists of trackers short, and we remove advertising trackers from sensitive pages, such as health booking pages. The legal wording of a client's cookie policy is the client's to approve, ideally with a lawyer. We don't give legal advice.
Will this policy change?
Only if what our website stores changes. We'll update this page and the date at the top before any new cookie goes live. Questions? Email hello@penguina.website.
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