Cookies are small text files placed on your device. They help websites remember your actions and preferences over time. We keep our use of them as light as possible and explain every category below.
1. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. When you return to the site, the browser sends that data back, allowing the site to recognise you, remember your settings, or measure how the site is used. Similar technologies — such as local storage, pixels and tags — work in comparable ways, and we refer to them collectively as "cookies" in this policy.
Cookies are not programs and cannot carry viruses. They cannot access other files on your device, and they do not identify you personally on their own.
2. How we use cookies
We use cookies for four broad purposes: to make the site work, to remember your preferences, to understand aggregate readership, and — only with your consent — to support any content that needs it. We do not use cookies to build advertising profiles of individuals.
3. Categories of cookies we use
Strictly necessary cookies
These are essential for the site to function and cannot be switched off. They are usually set in response to actions you take, such as remembering your cookie choices or protecting forms against misuse. They do not store information that identifies you for marketing.
Preference cookies
These remember choices you make, such as your language or display settings, so you do not have to set them again on every visit. Refusing these may make some features less convenient.
Analytics cookies
These help us understand, in aggregate, how readers use the site — which features are read, how long pages are viewed and how visitors arrive. The information is used in a pooled form to improve our editorial and the site itself. You can refuse these cookies without losing access to content.
Marketing cookies
These would only be used, with your explicit consent, to measure the effectiveness of any campaigns. We keep marketing cookies to a minimum and never use them to follow you around the web on your behalf.
4. First-party and third-party cookies
First-party cookies are set by Luoli itself. Third-party cookies are set by a domain other than ours — for example, an analytics or email-delivery provider whose tools we use. We choose our providers carefully and require them to respect your choices.
5. Cookies we set
| Name | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| luoli_consent | Strictly necessary | Stores your cookie preferences so we do not ask again. | 12 months |
| luoli_session | Strictly necessary | Keeps the site working correctly during your visit. | Session |
| luoli_prefs | Preference | Remembers display and language settings. | 6 months |
| luoli_analytics | Analytics | Measures aggregate page views and readership patterns. | 26 months |
| luoli_campaign | Marketing | Set only with consent; measures campaign performance. | 90 days |
6. How to manage cookies
You are always in control of cookies. You can:
- Use our consent controls. When you first visit, accept or reject optional cookies. You can change your choice at any time.
- Adjust your browser settings. All major browsers let you block or delete cookies. Look under "Settings", "Privacy" or "Security" in your browser.
- Delete existing cookies. Clearing your browser's cookie store removes cookies already set, including ours.
Please note that blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the site from working correctly. Blocking analytics cookies does not affect your access to our content.
Browser-specific guidance
- Chrome — Settings ▸ Privacy and security ▸ Cookies and other site data
- Safari — Settings ▸ Privacy ▸ Manage Website Data
- Firefox — Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Cookies and Site Data
- Edge — Settings ▸ Cookies and site permissions ▸ Manage and delete cookies
7. Consent
Where the law requires it, we ask for your consent before setting any cookies that are not strictly necessary. Optional cookies remain switched off until you agree, and you can withdraw consent whenever you wish. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before you withdrew it.
8. Do Not Track
Some browsers send a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal. There is still no common industry standard for how to respond to DNT, but our approach is simple: we do not track individuals across the web, so there is little to switch off. Where we can, we honour privacy signals that indicate a preference against analytics cookies.
9. Updates to this policy
We may update this Cookie Policy as our practices change or as the law evolves. When we make significant changes, we will update the date at the top of the page and, where required, ask for your consent again.
10. Contact us
If you have questions about our use of cookies, please contact our privacy desk at [email protected]. For more detail on how we handle personal information generally, see our Privacy Policy. You can also reach the team via our Contact Us page.