The short version
SundaeLink sets no cookies of its own for advertising, profiling or audience measurement, because it runs no advertising and keeps no reader database. What follows is the full account of what does touch your browser when you open a page here.
What a cookie actually is
A cookie is a small text entry that a site asks your browser to keep and hand back on the next request. Related technologies do a similar job: local storage keeps an entry on your device without sending it anywhere, and a measurement beacon reports an event without keeping anything at all.
Strictly necessary, set by Cloudflare
These pages are delivered through Cloudflare. To tell ordinary readers apart from automated traffic, Cloudflare may set a technical cookie such as __cf_bm, which typically lasts around half an hour, and, if a security challenge is ever shown to you, a cf_clearance cookie recording that the challenge was passed. They exist for availability and security, carry no advertising value and are set by Cloudflare rather than by us. Blocking them may make the site refuse to load.
Measurement without cookies
The pages load Cloudflare Web Analytics. It reports the address of the page, the referring address, loading performance such as Core Web Vitals, the class of browser and device and a country derived from your IP address. It sets no cookie, assigns no persistent identifier and cannot follow you to another site. We use it to see which reviews are read and whether the pages stay fast on a modest phone.
Local storage
One entry, named noticeSeen, is written when you close the notice at the bottom of the screen, so that it stays closed on your next visit. It holds nothing but the fact that you pressed the button, it is never transmitted, and clearing your site data removes it.
Advertising and marketing
None. There are no advertising cookies, no conversion pixels, no social widgets and no third-party trackers on this site, because there is no advertising on it and nothing is sold to advertisers.
How to control all of this
Every browser can block or delete cookies and clear local storage for a single site, usually under Settings, Privacy or the padlock beside the address bar. Doing so removes the notice entry and any Cloudflare technical cookie; the site keeps working, though a security challenge may appear more often. Since nothing here profiles you, there is no advertising consent to give or take back, and the button on the notice does nothing except close it.
Questions
If something on this page does not match what you see in your browser's developer tools, we would genuinely like to know. Write to team@sundaelink.com and we will correct the page.