Two small entries on the visitor's side
Policies of this kind tend to run on for pages, mostly because a great deal is collected somewhere out of sight, whereas the list here would fit on a napkin: two entries in the visitor's own browser, no sign-ups, no visitor counts, no ad cookies. The sections below name those entries, explain why they exist, and set out the rights that apply under EU or UK data law.
Hanging up mid-sentence is allowed, always
Two entries, both on the visitor's side
A visit to these pages leaves exactly two entries behind, and neither would impress anyone who went hunting for them. One is a cookie recording that the visitor confirmed being 18 or older; it expires after 180 days, and only then does the page ask again. Its companion is a flag kept in browser storage, noting that the small banner about storage was closed, and it stays until deleted from the browser's site-data screen. Nothing else is saved: no account, no profile, no advertising cookie.
Reasons for keeping them, and the legal footing
| Entry | Purpose | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Age-answer cookie, 180 days | Spares a returning adult from repeating the question page after page and keeps the 18+ requirement in force | Legitimate interest: the age requirement has to be enforced somehow |
| Closed-banner flag in browser memory | Keeps a dismissed banner dismissed on later visits | Legitimate interest in not nagging the same person twice |
Nobody counts visitors here
Visitors are not counted, profiled or followed from one page to the next. The pages load no analytics code, place no advertising cookies and carry no tracking pixels, so an opt-out would have nothing to act on, which is why none was built. Consent, the basis that statistics and advertising would normally require, never enters the picture: both entries serve the visitor's own convenience and are read for no other reason.
Europe and Britain: the rights a person holds
Access: a person may ask what is held about them. Here that means the two entries described above, which sit in their own browser, in plain view of anyone who opens its site-data screen.
Correction and deletion: either entry can be edited or removed from that same screen, the age cookie included.
Limits and objection: because both entries rest on legitimate interest, a person may object to them or ask for them to be restricted; blocking cookies for this site achieves the same result.
Portability: with so little recorded there is nothing worth carrying elsewhere, yet the right exists regardless.
Complaints go to the regulator
Anyone unhappy with how their data was handled has the right to go to the regulator that supervises privacy: for residents of the EU, the national authority in their own member state, and for residents of Britain, the UK's data regulator, the ICO. The right stands whatever this page happens to say, and it covers the chat as well as the surrounding text.
Three practical puzzles
Can the age answer be wiped before 180 days pass?
Yes. Deleting this site's cookies in the browser removes it, and the 18+ prompt appears again when the page is next opened.
Does clearing site data break anything?
Nothing breaks. The banner about storage may reappear once, which is the whole consequence, and someone on a balcony chair with the laptop on their knees can close it again on the way to the camera.
Can both entries be refused outright?
Blocking cookies is the visitor's right. The age answer then cannot be kept, so the prompt reappears each time, and likewise the banner if the browser forgets everything between sessions.
How this text changes
No date appears on this page, since whatever is on screen is the current text. If the pages ever start storing something new, the list of entries near the top is amended first; that list is the part worth rereading from time to time. A returning reader finds the present state of things rather than a trail of edits.
Reading done, camera next
An account is not wanted for the first try, and the entry age is 18.
One stranger, one evening, no awkward goodbyes
Dial into a video chat