Cookie Policy
Last updated July 16, 2026
A cookie is a small text file a website leaves in your browser so it can recognise that browser later. Think of it like the paper stub a coat check hands you. On its own it is a meaningless number, but it lets the counter match you to your coat when you come back.
The short version
- This site sets no cookies of its own for ordinary visitors.
- The only optional one is Google Analytics, which counts page visits.
- None of it is advertising. No pixels, no retargeting, nobody following you to other sites.
- Change your mind whenever you like with Cookie preferences at the bottom of any page.
1. How the choice works
Analytics starts switched off for everyone. What happens next depends on where you are, because the law differs:
- EU, EEA, and UK: no analytics cookie is set and your visit is not counted until you press Accept. If you press Decline, or simply ignore the notice, it stays that way.
- Everywhere else: analytics switches on by default, which local law allows, and the notice tells you so and lets you opt out on the spot.
Either way, the decision is yours to change at any moment, from any page, using the Cookie preferences link in the footer.
2. Where your choice is stored
Your answer is saved in your own browser, in a small storage box called localStorage, under the name ep-cookie-consent. It never leaves your device and it never reaches our server.
That has a practical consequence worth knowing: because the answer lives in that specific browser, clearing your browsing data or switching to a different browser or device makes the notice appear again. It has not forgotten you on purpose, it genuinely has nothing left to read.
3. Every cookie on this site
Strictly necessary
None for ordinary visitors. There is no login on the public site, no shopping basket, and no session to hold on to. Our staff admin area sets a normal session cookie when a member of our team signs in, but you will never see it because you cannot reach that area.
Analytics, only if you allow it
| Name | Set by | What it is for | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga |
Google Analytics | Tells one browser apart from another so a person who reads three pages counts as one visitor, not three. | 2 years |
_ga_DQFVJECRWL |
Google Analytics | Keeps track of a single visit, so we can see whether people are finding what they came for. | 2 years |
Google Analytics tells us that a page was read. It does not tell us who read it, and we do not use it to advertise to you. Google's own explanation is in the Google Privacy Policy.
Set by embedded content
Two parts of the site pull in content from other companies, and those companies can set their own cookies when that content loads:
- SproutVideo hosts our videos and may set a cookie when a video plays, so it can count views and remember your place. See the SproutVideo privacy policy.
- Google Maps draws the map on our provider pages and may set a cookie when the map loads. See the Google Privacy Policy.
These load as part of showing you the thing you asked to see. If you would rather they did not, the browser controls in the next section will stop them.
Google Fonts serves the typefaces this site is set in. It does not set a cookie, though like anything loaded over the internet it does see your IP address.
4. Turning cookies off in your browser
Our footer link controls our analytics. Your browser controls everything, ours included, and it beats any setting on any website. Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies:
Blocking everything will not break this site. You will just get the cookie notice again on every visit, because the note recording your answer is itself one of the things you blocked.
5. Changes
If we add a service that sets a cookie, it goes in the table above and the date at the top changes.
6. Contact
Questions about cookies go to simon@electronsplus.com. The fuller picture of what we collect is in our Privacy Policy.
