Cookie Policy

We respect you and your data

What cookies are

Cookies are small files a website asks your browser to store. They can remember something useful, or they can be used to recognise you again later, including on other websites.

This page lists every cookie this site can set, who sets it, and what you can do about it. It is specific to this site rather than generic — if something is not named here, we do not use it.

What this site sets: nothing

Standpoint sets no cookies of its own. There is no advertising here and no tracking of you between visits.

The contact form does not use cookies either. To stop it being abused it records how many messages have come from an address recently, but that count is held on the server and is not stored on your device.

How we count visits

We do want to know which pages people read, so we can write better ones. We use Plausible Analytics, and we chose it specifically because of how little it collects.

Plausible sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. It does not use your IP address to build a profile, does not follow you to other websites, and cannot recognise you if you come back tomorrow. It counts pages, not people.

What we can see is aggregate: how many people read a page, roughly where in the world they were, which site or search sent them, and whether they were on a phone or a laptop. What we cannot see is who you are, and there is no way for us to ask Plausible to tell us.

Plausible is an independent European company and the data is stored in the EU. Because none of it is personal data, there is nothing here to consent to and no banner to dismiss.

If you would still rather not be counted, any browser or extension that blocks analytics will block it, and nothing on the site will break.

What third parties set

Some pages include content from other companies. When that content loads, those companies can set their own cookies, under their own rules rather than ours.

We have put most of it behind a click, so nothing loads until you ask for it.

Booking a conversation — Calendly

Every page ends with a booking calendar provided by Calendly.

It does not load until you click. Until then the page shows a calendar of our own making — the free days are real, but your browser has asked Calendly for nothing, set no cookies and been given no identifier.

Those free days reach us, not you: our own server asks Calendly which times are open, once an hour, and passes on the dates. Your browser only ever talks to standpoint.ch, and nothing about you is sent to Calendly in the process.

When you do click, Calendly sets cookies of its own, under its rules rather than ours. We checked what they are rather than taking their word for it. Some are needed for the booking to work and to prevent abuse. Others are not: an identifier that marks your browser, cookies belonging to their payment provider, and their own performance monitoring. Loading the calendar also contacts Google and Meta.

We cannot switch those off on your behalf, so we do the one thing we can: we do not load any of it unless you ask for it. If you would rather not, send me a message instead — the form sets no cookies.

Calendly offers its own cookie controls at the bottom of the calendar once it has loaded. See also Calendly’s cookie notice.

Interviews — only if you press play

Interview pages can play the episode where you are, using YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts depending on the show.

None of these load until you press play. Until then the page shows a still image and a button, and nothing is requested from those companies. If you never press play, they set nothing.

Video uses youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube’s reduced-tracking domain.

The short clips on some interview pages are hosted here rather than on a video platform. They play with your browser’s own controls and set no cookies at all.

LinkedIn posts — Elfsight

The LinkedIn posts page shows a feed of recent posts, provided by Elfsight. It sets cookies when it loads.

This is the one exception on the site: the feed is the whole point of that page, so it loads when you arrive rather than waiting for a click. Every other page loads nothing from anyone else unless you ask it to. If you would rather not load it, simply do not visit that page.

See Elfsight’s privacy policy.

How to control cookies

You can block or delete cookies in your browser’s settings. Every major browser allows this, and most let you block third-party cookies specifically while leaving ordinary sites working.

Blocking cookies on this site will not break reading it. It may stop the booking calendar or the LinkedIn feed from working, since those belong to other companies and rely on their own cookies.

If you would rather not load them at all, you can read every page without pressing anything, and reach us using the message form or by writing to the address in our Data Protection Policy.

Changes to this page

This page describes the site as it is today. If we add anything that sets a cookie, this page will be updated before it goes live, and the date at the top will change.

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