From the desk

Cookies

This page explains the small files and stored marks this website may use. It should be read with the privacy notice.

A cookie is a short note a site asks your browser to keep and send back later. Some notes live only until you close the browser. Others last for a stated time. This site also uses local storage on your device to remember whether you accepted or rejected extra marks. Local storage is not sent to us with every page request.

What we use

We split marks into essential and optional. Essential marks remember your choice on this banner so we do not ask on every page. Optional marks are first-party visit notes used only if you press Accept. Rejecting leaves the sittings, rates, briefings, and letters fully readable. Nothing on this site requires an optional mark to function.

Table of marks

Name	Purpose	Duration	Provider
`gatewaylayerhub_cookie_consent`	Stores whether you accepted or rejected optional marks, so the banner can stay closed. Held in local storage, not as an HTTP cookie.	Until you clear site data	Gateway Layerhub Analytics
`gla_visit`	Optional first-party cookie, set only after Accept, noting that you chose to allow a visit mark. Used to remember that choice on later pages of this host.	90 days	Gateway Layerhub Analytics (first party)

We do not presently load third-party analytics scripts. If that changes, this table will name them before they run, and they will still wait on Accept.

Third-party cookies

Fonts are requested from Google Fonts when your browser loads a page. Google may see the request and may set its own cookies according to its policies. That request is needed to set the type. Embedded photographs are requested from the public image host named in each src. Those hosts may see the request. We do not embed third-party advertising.

How to refuse or clear

Press Reject on the banner. That stores rejected in local storage and does not set gla_visit. You can also clear cookies and site data in your browser settings, or use the browser’s controls to block cookies for this host. After clearing, the banner will ask again. Blocking all cookies may also forget your reject mark, which is why we prefer local storage for the choice itself.

Effect of disabling

Rejecting or blocking optional marks does not close the desk, hide rates, or stop the letter form. You may see the banner again if your browser forgets local storage. Fonts and photographs may still be requested from their hosts; that is part of drawing the page, not a second analytics layer from us.