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The technologies used by this website.
Last updated 21 September 2026
What is currently included
The website uses optional Google Analytics, which remains unloaded until you choose “Allow analytics”. It does not include advertising pixels. It loads Google Fonts. The newsletter form appears immediately and does not load MailerLite’s embedded scripts or browser identifier. Website hosting also supplies delivery and security functions.
Optional analytics
Google Analytics helps us understand visits, popular pages and engagement. “No thanks” leaves Google Analytics unloaded. You can revisit either choice using “Analytics preferences” in the footer. We remember your choice in local storage under thoughtful-analytics-choice for up to 180 days; it is used to honour your preference, not to analyse your browsing. If browser storage is unavailable, your choice applies only to the current page.
After permission, Google Analytics may set _ga and _ga_61TMQMT2X7 cookies. We configure these for a maximum of 180 days without refreshing that lifetime on each visit. They distinguish visits and sessions. Withdrawing permission reloads the page without Google Analytics and removes its accessible first-party cookies. We do not send Google analytics pings before you agree. Advertising storage and personalisation remain disabled even when analytics is allowed.
Newsletter forms
Our signup form does not set a newsletter cookie or store a newsletter identifier on your device. It connects to MailerLite only when you submit your email address. That request omits browser cookies. MailerLite processes the signup and sends a confirmation email before your subscription becomes active.
If you follow the separate signup-form link provided when needed, you visit a MailerLite-hosted page, where its own services and storage apply. Identifiers left by an earlier version of our embedded form are not read by the current form; you can remove them using your browser’s site-data settings. See MailerLite’s form-storage information for information about its hosted forms.
Fonts and external links
Font requests connect your browser to Google’s font services. Social icons are links, not embedded social feeds; following a link takes you to that service, where its own privacy and cookie information applies.
Site delivery and security
Hosting services may use technologies needed to deliver or protect the website. Following an external link takes you to another service with its own notices and controls.
Your browser
You can manage cookies and site storage in your browser. Blocking connections to MailerLite may prevent signup from completing; a separate signup-page link is provided if an error occurs.
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