Last updated: 23 October 2026
Cookies and your choices
This policy covers beliefisthebattlefield.com. Cookies are small files stored by your browser. Similar technologies include local storage, scripts and pixels. External requests can share technical information even without cookies. Read this alongside our Privacy Policy.
Use the banner to accept optional cookies, reject them or select categories. You can reopen it at any time using Manage consent. Necessary consent-preference storage remains available when optional cookies are rejected.
Withdrawal changes permission for future activity controlled by the banner. It does not recall information already sent or necessarily delete existing cookies. In our 17 October test, Google Analytics cookies remained after withdrawal while analytics consent returned to denied. You can remove existing cookies through your browser’s site-data settings. Removing consent preferences makes the banner appear again.
Storage used on this website
Complianz consent preferences – necessary. cmplz_banner-status, cmplz_consented_services, cmplz_functional, cmplz_marketing, cmplz_policy_id, cmplz_preferences and cmplz_statistics record your choice, permitted services and the policy version. Their observed lifetime is 365 days.
WordPress Consent API – necessary. wp_consent_functional, wp_consent_marketing, wp_consent_preferences, wp_consent_statistics and wp_consent_statistics-anonymous pass consent choices between plugins. Their observed lifetime is 30 days. A category marked allow records a permission; it does not by itself establish that a service has run.
Google Analytics – optional statistics. _ga distinguishes visitors and _ga_47X7SS1M20 maintains session information. These cookies were absent before a choice and after an initial rejection, and appeared after acceptance. Google’s default lifetime is two years, but browsers may cap it; Chrome limited the cookies to approximately 400 days in our test. Cookie duration is separate from our two-month Analytics user and event data retention setting.
Google consent mode
We use Google Site Kit’s advanced consent mode. Analytics storage is denied for all visitors until you accept. Advertising storage is always denied, whatever you choose in the banner, because we do not use Google advertising, remarketing or ad measurement. Google can still receive cookieless signals before consent or after rejection, including page and technical request information. This is not a promise that all Google requests are blocked. Ads personalisation is disabled worldwide in our Analytics property, and Google signals is off.
Sharing, images, fonts and external links
AddToAny sharing resources load from its service and receive technical request information. No AddToAny cookie was observed in the tested private-browser session. A browser blocking third-party cookies can affect what is stored. If you choose a sharing destination, that service may process data and set cookies under its own policy. See AddToAny’s privacy notice.
Google Fonts, Automattic’s image delivery service and jsDelivr icons may receive your IP address, browser details and resource requests. A request does not necessarily set a cookie. Buy Me a Coffee, Discord, the podcast RSS feed and footer social profiles are outbound links rather than embedded payment or community widgets. Their destination sites have separate policies.
The initial live homepage contains artwork, not an embedded video. Before introducing YouTube players or other new embeds, we will review their consent behaviour and update this policy. A link to YouTube alone is not an embedded player.
Scope of the checks
The initial homepage was checked in a private Chrome visitor session on 17 October 2026. No first-party cookies were present before a choice. Rejection stored consent preferences; acceptance enabled Analytics cookies; withdrawal returned analytics to denied. Browser settings, external-service changes and features you use can affect storage. Administrator login cookies and editor autosaves are not part of this ordinary visitor inventory.
Contact
Contact Phil Tyson PhD at beliefisthebattlefie.thesaurus715@passmail.net or Richmond Grove, Manchester, UK, M13 0DH. More information about your rights and the project is in our Privacy Policy.
