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Cookie Policy
This site sets nothing that tracks you. Here is every key it writes, what each one does, and how to change your mind.
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1. Cookies and similar technologies
A cookie is a small file a site asks your browser to keep and to send back on later visits. Browsers offer two close relatives — localStorage and sessionStorage — which stay on your device and are never attached to a request. The law treats all three the same way, so this policy covers all three, and we say plainly which kind each entry is.
2. Our approach
We use no advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no cross-site identifiers, and at present no analytics. The three keys this site writes itself are all localStorage, all functional, and all readable by nobody but your own browser.
The one thing that genuinely needs your permission is third-party embedding. When the portfolio shows a client film hosted on Instagram, loading it hands Meta your IP address and lets Meta set its own cookies. So we leave those embeds unloaded, behind a placeholder, until you say yes.
3. Categories
| Category | What it covers | Your choice |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Your cookie decision, your accessibility settings, and whether you muted the music | Always on — the site cannot honour your settings without remembering them |
| Embedded media | Instagram films inside the portfolio | Off until you allow it |
| Audience measurement | Anonymous page and project counts | Off, and not currently in use at all |
4. Everything this site stores
| Name | Kind | Purpose | Kept |
|---|---|---|---|
| maic:cookies | localStorage, ours | Records your cookie choice and the date you made it, so we stop asking | 12 months, then we ask again |
| maic:a11y | localStorage, ours | Your accessibility settings: reduced motion, contrast, text size, cursor, link underlines | Until you clear it or reset the panel |
| maic:sound | localStorage, ours | Whether you muted the background music, so a mute is never undone | Until you clear it |
| Instagram cookies | Cookies, Meta Platforms | Set by instagram.com when an embedded film loads. Governed by Meta's own privacy policy, not ours | As set by Meta |
Our website host also writes server-side access logs — IP address, page, timestamp — which are not cookies and which we use only to keep the site working and secure.
5. Changing your mind
Use the Cookie settings link in the footer of any page. It reopens the panel, shows what you chose last time, and lets you withdraw permission as easily as you gave it.
6. Browser controls
Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies and site data from its settings, usually under Privacy. Clearing this site's data resets your cookie choice, your accessibility settings and your sound preference, and the banner will greet you again on your next visit. Blocking storage altogether is fine — the site works, it simply cannot remember anything between visits.
7. Changes to this policy
If we ever add a tool that sets something new, we will list it here and ask you again before it loads. This version was published on 19 August 2026.