The One Cookie Note

Cookie pages on many websites run to dozens of entries. Ours is brief, because this magazine stores almost nothing on your device.

Two terms, briefly

A cookie is a small text file a website places in your browser, which is often sent back to the site with every request. Local storage is a similar space in your browser that a page can write to and read from, but which stays on your device and is not sent anywhere automatically.

What this site stores

Item	Where	Purpose	How long
Your answer to the cookie notice	Your browser's local storage	So the notice is not shown again on every page	Until you clear it

That single entry records only whether you pressed accept or decline. It contains no name, no address and no identifier, and it never leaves your device.

Left out on purpose

• No analytics or statistics cookies.
• No advertising or retargeting cookies.
• No social media tracking pixels.
• No scripts from other companies placing cookies of their own.

Declining the notice therefore changes very little in practice: the articles look and work exactly the same either way. The choice is stored simply so we do not keep asking.

Changing your mind

To see the notice again, remove the stored entry for this site:

1. Open your browser's settings and look for the privacy or site data section.
2. Find the stored data for pc-dtv.com.
3. Delete it, then reload any page of the magazine.

Using a private or incognito window also works, since the browser forgets everything when that window closes. The notice will then appear on your first visit in that window.

Why so little is stored

A magazine about everyday technology should not quietly do the things it would warn readers about. Running without trackers also keeps pages light, which helps on slower connections and older phones. If that ever changes, this page and the notice itself will say so before anything new is stored.

External links

A few articles point readers to outside websites. Those sites may use cookies of their own once you arrive there, under their own policies. None of their code runs on our pages before you click.

More information

For the full picture of what personal data is involved in running the magazine, including server logs and email, see Data Protection. Questions can be sent through the Get in Touch page.