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Cookies policy.

We use the minimum to make the guide work. No advertising cookies, no third-party trackers, no surveillance pixels. The guide is free to read because it's not paid for in surveillance. Last refreshed July 2026.

A small text file your browser stores so the website can remember a tiny thing between page loads — e.g. that you've already dismissed the banner, or which chapter you were last reading. They don't run code, they don't read your photos, and they don't leak between sites unless someone deliberately wires them up to do so. We haven't.

2. What we use

Two cookies, both first-party (set by us, only readable by us):

  • mm_session — lets you submit a question through the form without your text reappearing if the page bounces. Lives until you close the tab.
  • mm_seen_banner — remembers you've dismissed the cookies banner so you don't see it twice. Lives 6 months.

3. What we don't use

  • No advertising cookies. We don't run ads on the guide.
  • No third-party analytics that follow you off the site. (Plausible counts the page hit, but doesn't drop a cookie or read one — explained below.)
  • No retargeting pixels. No Meta pixel, no Google ads tag, no LinkedIn insight tag, none of the rest.

4. Analytics, briefly

We use a privacy-friendly counter (Plausible) to see how many people open a chapter and which ones get read the most. It doesn't store anything on your device. It anonymises your IP before counting. It doesn't follow you off the site. You don't need to consent to it under most privacy laws, but if you'd rather not be counted, your browser's Do Not Track signal turns it off automatically.

5. Turning cookies off

Every browser lets you block cookies in settings. The Mount Mate guide will work fine without them — the question form will still submit; you'll just see the banner more than once. To clear them on your device: Settings → Privacy → Cookies / Site data, search for "mountmate", clear.

6. Changes

If we ever add a cookie, this page gets a date bump and a one-line note in the footer for a fortnight. We won't add advertising cookies; that's a permanent commitment.