Cookies | What we set and how to change it

Your choice

You have not chosen yet. Nothing optional is set until you do.

Strictly necessary(always on)Keeps you signed in and your session secure. The site cannot work without these.AnalyticsGoogle Analytics — which pages are used, where people get stuck, and what brought them here.Marketing(none set)We do not use advertising cookies. If that ever changes we will ask before setting any.

Strictly necessary

These keep you signed in and keep the site secure. They cannot be turned off, because without them there is no working site to use.

Name	What it does	Set by	Lasts
authjs.session-token	Keeps you signed in.	Cook4Me	30 days
authjs.csrf-token	Stops a form on another site submitting as you.	Cook4Me	Session
authjs.callback-url	Returns you to the right page after signing in.	Cook4Me	Session
c4m_consent	Remembers this choice, so you are not asked again.	Cook4Me	6 months
c4m_admin_access	Staff only — admin console access.	Cook4Me	12 hours

Over HTTPS the first three are prefixed __Secure- or __Host- by the sign-in library.

Analytics — only if you agree

We use Google Analytics to understand which pages help and which lose people. Nothing here is set until you accept, and nothing about you is sold or used for advertising.

Name	What it does	Set by	Lasts
_ga	Tells one browser from another, using a random identifier.	Google	2 years
_ga_6W9Q4HVS3F	Keeps session state for this site’s analytics property.	Google	2 years
c4m_attr	Remembers where you first arrived from, so we can tell which posts and links bring chefs to us. No identifier, never shared.	Cook4Me	90 days

Google acts as our data processor under its data processing terms, and data may be processed outside the UK under the appropriate safeguards. If you withdraw consent above, the _ga cookies are deleted from this browser.

Advertising

None. We do not set advertising cookies, we do not sell your data, and we do not share it with advertisers. The control above includes a marketing category only so that the day anything changes, you have already been asked rather than discovering it afterwards.

If you would rather not decide here

Every browser can block or delete cookies itself, and the site works the same either way. For the full picture of what we hold and why, see the privacy policy.