Cookie Policy

This page explains what cookies we use, why, and how you can control them.

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files that websites store on your device. They're useful for remembering your preferences across visits and for measuring how people use the site.

The cookies we use

We group cookies into three categories:

• Essential cookies — needed for the site to work. These include the session cookie, the CSRF protection cookie, and the locale cookie that remembers your preferred city. You can't disable these and still use the site.
• Analytics cookies — help us understand which pages people visit and how long they stay. We use this to improve the site. Optional.
• Advertising cookies — set by Google AdSense to show you ads that may be relevant to your interests. Optional.

Our defaults

• If you're visiting from South Africa, analytics and advertising cookies are on by default. We tell you so in a notice when you first visit, and you can switch either of them off at any time — under Manage in that notice, through the "Cookie settings" link in the footer, or in your browser's settings.
• If you're visiting from anywhere else, analytics and advertising cookies stay off until you accept them.

We work out which applies from the country your connection comes from. Once you've made a choice, we remember it and it always takes precedence over these defaults.

How to control cookies

We use a consent manager (Klaro, an open-source tool) to give you fine-grained control. You can:

• Accept all categories.
• Reject everything except essential cookies.
• Pick and choose which categories to enable.
• Change your mind at any time by clicking the "Cookie settings" link in the footer.

You can also block or delete cookies through your browser's settings. Note that disabling essential cookies will break some site functionality.

Third-party cookies

Some cookies are set by external services we use:

• Google AdSense — for personalised ads, while advertising cookies are on (see Our defaults above). With them off you still see ads, but they aren't personalised.
• Google Sign-In (One Tap) — when enabled, Google sets a g_state cookie to remember if you dismissed the sign-in prompt. This is part of first-party authentication (essential) and is not used for advertising.
• Cloudflare — for site delivery and security (essential).

These third parties have their own privacy and cookie policies that govern their cookies.

Changes to this policy

We may update this cookie policy as we add or remove services. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent change.