In short: loading a page on Kwyper sets no cookies. We have no analytics and no advertising, so there is nothing tracking you here. A small number of cookies appear only if you leave a comment and ask the site to remember you, or if you are a member of our staff logged in to the back end. This page lists every one of them.
Effective date: 16 September 2026
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store, so that something can be remembered between one page and the next. Similar technologies such as local storage do the same job in a different way, and everything on this page applies to them too.
The categories we use
Cookies are usually sorted into four groups. Kwyper uses one of them.
- Strictly necessary. Needed to deliver the site or a feature you asked for. These are the only cookies Kwyper sets, and the law does not require consent for them.
- Functional. Remember a preference, such as your name in a comment box. We use one of these, and only when you tick the box asking for it.
- Analytics. Count visits and measure behaviour. We use none. There is no Google Analytics, no Tag Manager and no other measurement tool on this site.
- Advertising. Build a profile to target ads. We use none. No advertising runs on Kwyper, so no ad network sets anything here.
Every cookie this site can set
Kwyper runs on WordPress, and these are WordPress’s own cookies. None of them is set when you simply read an article. We checked a normal page load from a browser with no history on the site, and the server sent no cookie at all.
| Name | Provider | What it does | Type | Duration | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| comment_author_* | Kwyper (WordPress) | Remembers the name you typed, so you do not retype it on your next comment. Set only if you tick the box that offers to save your details. | Functional | About 1 year | First party |
| comment_author_email_* | Kwyper (WordPress) | Remembers the email address you typed, for the same reason. Same tick box. | Functional | About 1 year | First party |
| comment_author_url_* | Kwyper (WordPress) | Remembers the website address you typed, if you gave one. Same tick box. | Functional | About 1 year | First party |
| wordpress_logged_in_* | Kwyper (WordPress) | Keeps a member of our staff signed in to the back end. Readers never receive it. | Strictly necessary | Until the browser closes, or 14 days if the sign-in box was ticked | First party |
| wordpress_sec_* | Kwyper (WordPress) | Protects the signed-in session on secure pages of the back end. | Strictly necessary | Same as above | First party |
| wp-settings-* and wp-settings-time-* | Kwyper (WordPress) | Remembers layout choices inside the WordPress editor for signed-in staff. | Functional | 1 year | First party |
| _lscache_vary | Kwyper (LiteSpeed Cache) | Tells the page cache to serve a signed-in member of staff the uncached version of a page. Not set for ordinary readers. | Strictly necessary | Session | First party |
Other companies your browser contacts
Some files on our pages are served from other companies’ servers. That does not set a cookie, but those servers do see your IP address and browser details when the file loads. We tested each one and none of them returned a cookie.
- Gravatar, run by Automattic, supplies the avatar next to a comment.
- Unsplash and Pexels serve some of the photographs on our pages.
- WordPress.org serves the emoji images WordPress falls back to on older browsers.
- Web3Forms receives your message when you press send on the contact form, and not before.
We embed no videos, no social media posts and no third-party widgets, so no YouTube, X, Facebook or Instagram tracker runs on Kwyper.
Consent
You will not see a cookie banner on Kwyper, and that is deliberate rather than an oversight. European rules require consent before a site stores anything that is not strictly necessary for a service you asked for. We store nothing in that category, so there is nothing to ask you about. The one functional cookie we can set is the comment cookie, and it is set only when you tick a box requesting it, which is consent given in a clearer way than a banner manages.
This is a commitment, not just a description. If we add analytics or advertising, non-essential cookies will be set only after you have agreed, through a consent tool that lets you refuse as easily as you accept and lets you change your mind later. We will update this page and flag the change on our Privacy Policy before any of it goes live.
Controlling cookies yourself
Every browser lets you see the cookies a site has stored, delete them and block new ones. Look under Settings, then Privacy. The controls are in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. Deleting our comment cookies simply means you type your name again next time. Blocking cookies does not stop you reading Kwyper.
If you want to limit ad tracking across the web generally, these industry tools work regardless of what any single site does: Google My Ad Center and Google’s page on how it uses data from partner sites, YourAdChoices in the United States and Your Online Choices in Europe. You can also turn on the Global Privacy Control signal, which we honour.
Last updated: 16 September 2026. Questions about this page go to [email protected].