Cookies on this adult ad network site

Last updated: 31 July 2026

This page tells you exactly what is stored in your browser when you use this site, who stores it, and how to stop it. The site is run by the small editorial team described on our about page. It is deliberately specific rather than general, because a cookie policy that describes cookies in the abstract tells you nothing about the site you are actually on.

What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. When you return, the browser sends it back, which is how a site can remember something about your previous visit. Related technologies do the same job by different means: local storage and session storage keep data in the browser without sending it with every request, and tracking pixels are tiny image requests whose only purpose is to record that a page was loaded.

Cookies cannot execute code, cannot carry a virus, and cannot read files on your device or data belonging to other sites. What they can do is identify a returning browser, which is why they matter for privacy even though they are harmless as files.

Two distinctions run through the rest of this page. A first-party cookie is set by the site you are visiting; a third-party cookie is set by another service embedded in that page. A session cookie disappears when you close the browser; a persistent cookie stays for a defined period.

What this site stores today

This site runs one third-party script and nothing else: Google Analytics 4, measurement ID G-ESWM8QBJRM. There is no advertising tag, no embedded social widget, no comment system, no user account and no newsletter. Everything stored in your browser on this domain comes from that single script.

Analytics tells us which pages get read, how long people stay and which sources send traffic. We use it to decide what to research next and which figures readers actually come back to check. It does not tell us who you are, we do not attempt to identify individual readers, and we do not combine it with any other data set.

What the analytics script stores

Google Analytics 4 sets two cookies on this domain. _ga holds a pseudonymous identifier so that repeat visits are counted as one reader rather than several, and _ga_ESWM8QBJRM holds the state of the current session for this property. Both are first-party, both expire after two years, and neither carries a name, an email address or anything else that identifies you.

Two older cookies often listed in policies of this kind, _gid and _gat, belong to the previous Universal Analytics and are not set here. If your hosting or CDN layer sits behind Cloudflare you may also see __cf_bm and cf_clearance, which handle bot detection and security challenges rather than measurement.

Outbound links to advertising platforms

The most significant tracking on this site is not on this site. When you follow a link to an advertising platform, you leave for that platform's domain, and from that point its cookies, its tracking and its privacy policy apply to you.

Those links carry campaign parameters identifying this site as the source of the visit, which is how affiliate attribution works and how we are paid. The parameters describe the referring site and the campaign; they do not carry your name, email address or any personal identifier, because we do not hold any.

What happens after you arrive is outside our control and outside our knowledge. We receive aggregate reporting from affiliate programmes, meaning counts of sign-ups attributed to us. We do not receive your identity, your account details, your spending or any other personal information about you.

Legal basis and consent

This site is operated from the United Kingdom, so the rules that bind us are the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 and the UK GDPR, supervised by the Information Commissioner's Office. Because our readers are largely in the United States and the European Union, we apply the strictest of the applicable standards rather than the one most convenient to us.

Under PECR, cookies strictly necessary to deliver a service the user has requested may be set without consent. Everything else, including analytics, requires consent given before the cookie is set. EU law under the ePrivacy Directive works the same way. California takes a different approach: no prior consent is required, but you must be told what is collected and given a way to opt out of any sale or sharing.

The analytics cookies described above are not strictly necessary, so under PECR and the ePrivacy Directive readers in the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area must be able to refuse them. Until a consent banner is live on this site, the effective controls are the browser-level ones described in the next section: blocking cookies for this domain, or installing Google's opt-out add-on. Both stop analytics regardless of what the site does, and neither affects your ability to read anything here.

How to control cookies yourself

Browser settings give you the final say regardless of what any site does. Every major browser lets you block third-party cookies, block all cookies, delete what is already stored, and clear everything automatically when you close it. The relevant settings live under Privacy in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge.

Private or incognito windows discard cookies at the end of the session, which is a quick way to visit without leaving anything behind. Blocking all cookies breaks sign-in and shopping baskets on most of the web, so blocking third-party cookies specifically is usually the better trade.

Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics across all sites that use it, which is more durable than per-site controls. Browser-level signals such as Global Privacy Control are honoured by a growing number of services and are worth enabling if your browser supports them.

Your rights over personal data

We hold very little personal data, because the site has no accounts, no newsletter and no forms. If you email us, we hold that correspondence in order to answer you, and it is read by the named editor rather than passed to a third party.

Under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 you have the right to access the data held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to or restrict its processing, to receive it in portable form, and to withdraw consent at any time where processing rests on consent. Readers in the European Economic Area have the equivalent rights under the EU GDPR.

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act you have the right to know what personal information is collected, to have it deleted, to correct it, and to opt out of any sale or sharing of personal information. We neither sell nor share personal information with anyone, so there is nothing to opt out of, and we do not discriminate against anyone who exercises a privacy right.

To exercise any of these rights, write to [email protected]. Requests are acknowledged within five business days and answered within one month, which is the deadline the UK GDPR sets. If you are not satisfied with our response you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, or to the supervisory authority in your own country.

Changes to this policy

Google Analytics 4 was added on 31 July 2026 and this page was updated the same day. It is reviewed whenever the site's technical setup changes and at least once a year. The date at the top is the date of the last review, not the date the page was created, so you can tell at a glance whether it reflects the current state of the site.

The site this policy covers is Adult Ad Network and the supporting pages around it. Questions about anything here go to [email protected]. The wider rules governing use of this site are on the terms and conditions page, how we handle research and sourcing is set out in the editorial policy, and other contact routes are listed on the contact page.