Cookies Policy | Photo Forum

This page explains which cookies and similar technologies are involved in reading Photo Forum, and what choices you have.

Cookies we set

None. Photo Forum does not set any cookies of its own. There is no analytics cookie, no advertising cookie, no preference cookie and no session cookie, because the site is a set of static pages with no accounts and no forms.

This is also why you are not being shown a cookie banner. A consent banner exists to collect permission for non-essential cookies, and there are none here to consent to.

Cookies the infrastructure may set

The site sits behind a content delivery and security provider, which is what keeps it fast and protects it from attacks. That layer can set a small number of strictly necessary cookies, used to tell ordinary readers apart from automated traffic and to manage the security of the connection. They do not identify you personally, they are not used for advertising, and they are not read by us.

Cookies of this kind are classed as strictly necessary, which means they do not require consent under the UK rules on cookies, because without them the service cannot be delivered securely.

Other storage

We do not use local storage, session storage, web beacons, tracking pixels or device fingerprinting. Typefaces and stylesheets are served from this domain rather than from an external font service, so simply reading a page does not create a request to a third-party provider.

Controlling cookies

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings, and every current browser lets you do this per site. Because this site does not depend on cookies to work, blocking them will not break anything you can see.

If you want to understand the options in more detail, the Information Commissioner's Office publishes plain-language guidance for the public at ico.org.uk.

Links to other sites

Our articles link out to photographers' websites, galleries, publishers and official guidance. Those sites set their own cookies under their own policies, and following a link from here takes you outside the scope of this page.

Changes

If this site ever starts using cookies for anything beyond strictly necessary security, this page will be updated first and the appropriate consent will be asked for.