Cookies

Which cookies are used

Necessary. One entry in the browser’s local storage holding your answer to the cookie question and the date of that answer. Without it the question window would open on every page. The entry contains no personal data and is not sent to the server.

Analytics. Google Analytics, valid for up to two years. They collect non-identifying statistics: which pages are opened, where users come from, and what kind of device they use. The IP address is passed on in truncated form.

Analytics without cookies. Vercel Web Analytics sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. The statistics record the address of the page opened, the traffic source, country, region and city, browser, operating system and device type. A visitor is identified by a hash built from the request itself, and the session is not kept permanently: it is discarded automatically after 24 hours. The counter works from the very first page load until you press “Necessary only”, which switches it off as well.

There is nothing else. There are no advertising or tracking cookies on the site, no embedded social media widgets and no tracking pixels.

How consent works

The window opens on your first visit. It has two buttons of the same size and weight: “Necessary only” and “Accept all”. Refusal is not hidden in small print — Traficom explicitly requires refusing to be as easy as consenting.

In the settings, the analytics toggle is off by default. There are no pre-given consents: a box ticked on your behalf is not consent. If you save your choice with the toggle off, the Vercel counter is switched off too.

You can read the site without having answered. We do not block access to force consent — that is not permitted, and there is no need for it either: Google Analytics is not loaded before consent, and the Vercel counter stores nothing on your device.

Your choice is stored together with the date. If the set of cookies changes, the consent version is raised and the question is asked again.

How to withdraw consent

At the bottom of every page there is a “Cookie settings” link. It opens the same window in which consent was given.

This is not a formality: withdrawing has to be as easy as giving, and the identical interface is the most direct way of ensuring that.

After refusal, Google Analytics stops loading and the Vercel counter stops sending data at once; on the next page load its script is no longer fetched at all. Google Analytics cookies that have already been set are removed with the browser’s own functions: the site settings in the address bar have an option for deleting the site’s data. Vercel Web Analytics stores nothing on your device, so there is nothing to delete.

You can go further and block cookies in the browser itself. The site still works — all the tools calculate locally and do not depend on cookies — but the question window will open every time, because there is nowhere to save your answer.

How to check us

The claim “Google Analytics is not loaded without consent” is worth little if it cannot be checked. The check takes a minute.

Open your browser’s developer tools, select the Network tab, and reload the page before you answer the cookie question. There should be no calls to googletagmanager.com in the list. The Vercel Web Analytics script.js file will be there: it is fetched from the site’s own address and sets no cookies.

Answer “Accept all” and Google Analytics appears. Answer “Necessary only” and reload the page, and the Vercel script is no longer fetched either.

The only external call that always happens is loading Google Fonts. It relates to displaying the page, happens regardless of consent, and we mention it in the privacy policy directly.

What is stored and for how long

Google Analytics starts only after explicit consent. The cookie-free Vercel counter runs until you press “Necessary only”.

Frequently asked

Sources

• Traficom: rules on the use of cookies — consent, refusal, withdrawal
• Tietosuoja.fi: processing of personal data
• Vercel: Web Analytics privacy and compliance