Cookie Policy

Effective October 2026. This page sits alongside our privacy policy and covers the specifics of cookies and similar technologies.

What a cookie actually is

A small text file that a website asks your browser to store, and which your browser sends back on subsequent visits. That is all. It cannot read your hard drive, run a program, or carry a virus. What it can do is act as a persistent identifier — which is exactly why the advertising industry relies on it and why privacy regulation cares about it.

Related technologies work similarly: local storage keeps data in the browser rather than sending it back automatically, and web beacons (tiny invisible images) signal that a page or email was opened.

The three categories on this site

Essential

A very small number, set by us, needed for the site to function correctly. Currently this means remembering your consent choice so we do not ask you again on every page. These cannot be disabled without the site behaving oddly.

Analytics

Set by Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. These tell us which pages get read, where readers arrive from, and where people give up partway through an article. We use that to decide what to write next and to fix pages that are not working.

This data is aggregate. We do not use it to identify individual readers and we have IP anonymisation enabled in Analytics.

Advertising

Set by Google and its advertising partners. These select which advertisements to show, cap how often you see the same one, and measure whether an ad was viewed or clicked.

This is the category that enables personalised advertising — ads chosen using your browsing behaviour across many sites rather than just the content of the page you are reading. It is also the category most people want to control, and the controls are below.

How to control cookies

Turn off personalised advertising

The most direct option. Visit Google Ads Settings and switch off ad personalisation. For a broader opt-out across many vendors at once, use aboutads.info or the Network Advertising Initiative.

You will still see advertising. It just will not be selected using your browsing history.

Opt out of Google Analytics

Google publishes a browser add-on that blocks Analytics on every site you visit, not just this one.

Block cookies in your browser

Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies. The setting is typically under Privacy or Site Settings:

• Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies
• Safari: Settings → Privacy → Prevent cross-site tracking
• Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection
• Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions

Blocking all cookies will break some functionality on many websites, though this one degrades fairly gracefully — you will simply be asked about consent more often.

Private browsing

Incognito or private windows discard cookies when the window closes. That limits persistent tracking without changing your normal browsing setup, which suits people who do not want to fiddle with settings.

Do Not Track

Browser Do Not Track signals are not consistently honoured across the web because there is no agreed standard for what compliance means. We do not currently alter behaviour based on that header. The Global Privacy Control signal is more meaningful, and where a provider we use honours it, that applies to this site too.

Changes

When our cookie usage changes we will update the table above and the effective date. If we add a new category, we will say so clearly rather than quietly editing a row.

Questions

Email privacy@sliceandsave.com and we will answer properly. Cookie questions are one of the few things we're happy to get a lot of.