Cookies on Our Aqua Spins Guide: the Short Version

Cookies are the small files a site stores in a browser so that pages remember things between visits, and on an information site their job is modest: keeping the site readable, counting readers and carrying the settings a visitor chooses. Our guide runs on that modest set.
We use no advertising trackers of our own, and the pages function fully even when a reader blocks everything beyond the essential type. What follows explains the types in play, what the commercial links can set, and how a reader keeps control in the browser.

How Updates to This Policy Are Announced

Changes to our cookie use are published on the policy itself with a moved date line, so the current version always replaces the old one in place rather than arriving as a surprise. When a new cookie type ever joins the set, the change lands in the policy first with a plain description of what it does.

Consent and Changing It Later

A reader’s browser settings are the consent mechanism: accepting, limiting, or blocking cookies sits in the reader’s hands, and a choice made today can be reversed tomorrow in the same menu. Clearing stored cookies resets the site to its first-visit state, which costs nothing here beyond losing nothing that matters.

Third-Party Cookies and What They Do

Commercial (affiliate) links on our guides can set their own cookies once a reader follows them, under the linked operator’s policy rather than ours; those files belong to the destination and serve its own measurement. Analytics on our side counts aggregate traffic and sets no advertising identifiers. Neither flow needs a reader’s name, and neither can read anything from other tabs.

Managing Cookies in the Browser, Step by Step

1. Open the browser’s settings and find the privacy or cookies section.
2. Choose to block third-party cookies, which stops most cross-site tracking at once.
3. Clear existing cookies to reset any stored preferences or identifiers.
4. Allow the essential type if the browser asks, so the site keeps working as designed.
5. Revisit the setting after major browser updates, which sometimes reset privacy choices.

What Cookies Are, Precisely

A cookie is a small text file a website asks the browser to store, carrying a short identifier and nothing executable. On each later visit the browser hands the file back to the site that set it, which is how a site remembers a session, a preference, or a count across page loads.

The Types Our Site Uses

• Essential cookies: keep the pages rendering and the contact form working; the site does not function sensibly without them.
• Analytics cookies: measure aggregate page views, referral sources and reading duration so maintenance goes where readers actually are.
• Preference cookies: remember a choice a visitor makes about how to view the site.
• Affiliate cookies: set by commercial links a reader chooses to follow, governed by the linked operator’s own policy.

Last updated: 11 November 2026