This page lists every cookie, and every similar piece of browser storage, that sudeshnathapa.com can use: what each one is for, how long it lasts and which part of the cookie banner controls it. I run the site myself, the list is written from the site’s own code, and the categories are the same three you see in the banner.
What cookies are, and the UK rules on them
A cookie is a short piece of text that a website saves in your browser and reads back later, which lets it remember something between pages or between visits. Local storage and session storage do a similar job without being cookies in the technical sense. The law treats them the same way, so on this page “cookie” covers all three, and the tables say where something is stored differently.
Two sets of UK law apply. The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) decide whether a site may store or read anything on your device at all. It may do so without asking only when that is strictly necessary to give you something you have asked for, such as remembering the cookie choice you just made. Anything else, analytics included, needs your consent first. UK GDPR then governs any personal data those cookies collect. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) enforces both.
Cookies also differ by whose domain they sit on. A first-party cookie belongs to the site you are visiting; a third-party cookie belongs to another company’s domain. Every cookie this site’s own code writes is first party. Some tags from other companies, Google Analytics for example, also write first-party cookies, which is why each table says who sets each one.
The short version
- Nothing optional is stored on your device until you choose. The banner asks on your first visit, and you can read and use the site while it is open.
- There are three categories, named as they are in the banner. Necessary cookies are always on. Analytics and marketing cookies are off until you switch them on.
- “Reject all” sits beside “Accept all” and is just as easy to press. “Manage settings” lets you allow one optional category and not the other.
- Your choice is kept only in your own browser. The site does not send a copy of it anywhere.
- You can change your mind at any time from the “Cookie settings” link at the bottom of every page.
Cookies this site uses
Each table below matches one category in the cookie banner. “Set by” says whose code writes the cookie. “Lifetime” is how long it stays in your browser unless you delete it sooner.
Necessary cookies
These are always on and have no switch, because the site cannot do what you ask of it without them. The law calls them strictly necessary. None of them follows you to other sites or records which pages you read.
| Name | What it does | Lifetime | Set by |
|---|---|---|---|
| krj_consent | Remembers the choice you made in the cookie banner: which optional categories you allowed, which version of this policy you saw, and when you chose. It is written only when you press a button in the banner. | 180 days, after which the banner asks again | This site |
| krj_bar_off | Keeps an announcement bar closed once you have closed it. It holds only the reference numbers of the bars you closed, and is set only if a bar is running and you press its close button. No announcement bar is running at the time of writing. | One year | This site |
| wordpress_logged_in_*, wordpress_sec_*, wordpress_test_cookie, wp-settings-* | Keep a site administrator signed in to the WordPress dashboard and remember their dashboard layout. Visitors who do not log in never receive them. | Until the browser closes, or 14 days if “Remember me” is ticked; wp-settings cookies one year | WordPress |
Comments are switched off across the site, so the cookies WordPress uses to remember a commenter’s name and email address are never set.
One more item is not a cookie and is not held back by the banner, so I list it separately. If I run a pop-up message, the site saves a note called krj_c_ followed by a number in your browser’s session storage or local storage when the pop-up appears, so it does not show again too soon. The note holds only the time the pop-up was shown and nothing that identifies you. Session storage clears when you close the tab; local storage stays until you clear it. No pop-up is running at the time of writing, so nothing is saved.
The enquiry forms can use Cloudflare Turnstile, a check that a person rather than a bot is sending a form, but it is not switched on at the time of writing, so nothing loads from Cloudflare for it. If I switch it on, I will add anything it stores to this page first.
Analytics cookies
Off until you switch them on. They show me which pages people read and how they found the site, so I can see which pages help and which lose people. They also record which advert or campaign brought you here, so an enquiry can be matched to the campaign that produced it.
| Name | What it does | Lifetime | Set by |
|---|---|---|---|
| krj_attr | Records how you arrived: the first page you landed on, the site that sent you, the time, and any campaign details in the link you followed. Those details are UTM parameters and the click IDs that Google, Meta and Microsoft add to their ad links. It keeps your first campaign visit and your most recent one, and contains nothing that names you, such as your email address or phone number. | 90 days | This site |
No analytics tag, such as Google Analytics, is set up on the site at the time of writing, so krj_attr is the only cookie in this category. If I add one, its cookies will be listed here before it goes live, and it will wait for your consent like everything else in this category.
Marketing cookies
Off until you switch them on. Cookies in this category would let advertising platforms see whether their adverts led to a visit or an enquiry, and the platforms may also use them to show you related adverts on other sites. The platforms’ own code sets them, and what each platform does with the data is covered by its own privacy policy.
No advertising tag, such as the Google Ads tag or the Meta Pixel, is set up on the site at the time of writing, so this category sets no cookies today. If I add one, its cookies will be listed here, with their lifetimes, before it goes live.
If an advertising tag is added and you allow marketing, it would also contact the platform’s own domains, and your browser may send any cookies it already holds there, such as a Facebook or LinkedIn login cookie. This site cannot see or delete those.
Maps and videos from other sites
The contact page shows where I am based on a Google map, but the map does not load by itself. Until you press “Show map”, the page sends nothing to Google for it. Pressing the button is your request for the map: it then loads from Google’s servers, which receive your IP address and may read or set Google’s own cookies under Google’s privacy policy. The location is written out beside the map, so you can skip it entirely.
If a page includes a YouTube video, the site embeds it from youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode, and Vimeo videos are embedded with Vimeo’s “do not track” setting. The player still loads from their servers when you scroll near it, and once you press play the video service can store information in your browser under its own policy.
How the banner holds optional cookies back
Every analytics and advertising tag on this site arrives switched off. The code is in the page, but in a form your browser will not run, so nothing is fetched or stored for those tags. When you allow a category, the site switches on only the tags in that category. If you never choose, or your browser has JavaScript turned off, they stay off.
If I use Google Tag Manager, a container for tags such as Google Analytics, it loads only once you allow analytics or marketing; it is not set up at the time of writing. Before it starts, the site passes your choice to Google through Consent Mode, so a Google tag in a category you refused is told not to store cookies or use your data for advertising.
Whenever your browser has no valid choice on record, the site deletes any of its optional cookies left over from before and then shows the banner, so nothing optional carries over from an old choice.
Why I ask for analytics and marketing consent
I am one consultant running my own site, and the reports are how I find out whether it is any use to the people who visit. Analytics shows which pages are read, which ones people leave quickly, and which sites and links bring visitors in. Marketing cookies show whether money spent on an advert led to enquiries or was wasted. Today the only optional cookie in use is krj_attr, but the banner asks for both categories so that any tool I add later waits for your consent from the start.
The reports show me numbers and trends, not named people. The one place a cookie meets a name is an enquiry: if you allowed analytics and then send me a message, the campaign details from krj_attr travel with it, so I can see which advert or link led to it. How I store enquiries, and your rights over them, is set out in the privacy policy.
Changing or withdrawing your consent
Use the “Cookie settings” link at the bottom of any page, or open your cookie settings from here. The panel shows what you chose last time: tick or untick a category, then press “Save choices”. “Accept all” and “Reject all” are there too.
When you withdraw a category, the site deletes the cookies it knows belong to that category from this domain, then reloads the page. The reload is needed because a tag that is already running cannot be stopped any other way, and the fresh page starts without it.
The site cannot delete cookies held on another company’s domain. Your browser can: every major browser lets you clear cookies and site data for one site or for all of them, and block third-party cookies altogether. Clearing this site’s cookies also clears your banner choice, so you will be asked again on your next visit.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Some browsers send a “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signal with every request. This site does not read either signal automatically. For optional cookies it does not need to, because they stay off until you allow them, so the default already matches what the signal asks for. Pressing “Reject all” once records that choice for this site.
Changes to this policy
If I add a tool that sets new cookies, or change what an existing one does, I will update this page before the change goes live. When the change is one you should hear about, I also change the policy version stored in krj_consent, which makes the banner ask everyone again. The date at the end of this page shows when it last changed.
Questions about cookies on this site
This site is run by me, Sudeshna Thapa, from London. If you have a question about a cookie on this list, or you have found one that is not on it, email contact@sudeshnathapa.com or use the contact page, and I will look into it. If you are unhappy with my answer, you can complain to the ICO at ico.org.uk.
Last updated: 5 October 2026.
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