Plain English: we use the bare minimum — one preference cookie to remember your cookie choice, and a privacy-friendly analytics tool that doesn't track you across other sites. No advertising, no behavioural profiling.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files a website places on your device to remember preferences or settings. Similar technologies include localStorage and sessionStorage. We refer to all of these as "cookies" in this policy for simplicity.
2. How we use them
We use cookies for two reasons:
- Strictly necessary — to remember your cookie consent choice and to keep the chat box from re-greeting you on every click. These don't require consent under UK law.
- Analytics — to understand which pages are useful, anonymously and in aggregate. We use Plausible Analytics, which is cookieless and GDPR-friendly. No third-party advertising cookies are set.
3. Cookies we set
| Name |
Purpose |
Type |
Expires |
birmi_cookies |
Remembers your cookie consent choice (essential / all). |
Strictly necessary |
1 year |
birmi_chat_seen |
Tracks whether the chat assistant has greeted you in this session, so it doesn't repeat itself. |
Strictly necessary |
Session |
4. Third-party services
The site loads a small number of third-party resources. Each only runs as needed, and none are used for cross-site tracking:
- Google Fonts — serves the typefaces. Your IP address is briefly seen by Google's font CDN.
- Plausible Analytics — privacy-friendly page analytics. No cookies, no personal data.
- Anthropic (chat assistant) — processes your chat messages to generate replies. See our Privacy Policy for detail.
5. Managing cookies
You can change your choice at any time:
- From this site: open browser devtools and clear the
birmi_cookies entry — the banner will reappear on next load.
- From your browser: all major browsers let you block or delete cookies. Visit aboutcookies.org for step-by-step guides.
Note: blocking strictly necessary cookies may break parts of the site (such as your consent choice not being remembered).
6. Changes
If we add or change cookies, we'll update this page and the "Last updated" date.
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