Cookies

A cookie rule is about storing information on your device, or reading information already there. It is not about whether a page is served to you; it is about what the page leaves behind.

Analytics, by region. Before Google Analytics 4 loads, every page sets Google Consent Mode defaults by region. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, analytics and tracking storage are denied by default, and Google’s tag sets no analytics cookie there. Everywhere else, the UAE included, they are granted by default, and Google Analytics sets its own first-party cookies (_ga, and _ga_followed by an ID) to tell visits and sessions apart. There is no cookie banner and no on-site choice: nothing on the page changes those defaults. To limit measurement, you can block or clear cookies in your browser settings, or install Google’s Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Excluding our own visits. The measurement code leaves internal visits out of the figures — automated browsers, other hostnames and pages opened with ?internal=1 appended — without writing anything to your browser: no cookie and no local-storage entry.

No advertising. There is no advertising product on this build, no advertising script on any page, and no cross-site tracking.

Consent defaults before any tag.The consent defaults described above are set in each page’s own head, before any tag loads, and no choice is asked for. That ordering is what guarantees that no tag can arrive ahead of the consent defaults.

If advertising is ever added, this page changes first, and a consent choice appears before any advertising loads. Last reviewed in August 2026.