Cookie Policy and Tracking Details

Last updated: 15 March 2024

Cookies keep this site working the way you expect — remembering your route preferences, helping pages load faster, and letting us see which bike reviews actually get read. Here's what we store and why.

What Are Cookies and How Do We Use Them?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves to your device when you visit. It holds a little bit of information that the site can read back later, which is how a page remembers you were here before.

There are two flavours worth knowing about.

Session cookies live only as long as your visit. Close the tab, and they're gone. We use these for things like keeping you logged in while you browse from a training plan to a local route guide.

Persistent cookies stick around longer, sometimes for months. These remember choices you made — like dismissing the cookie banner, so you don't get asked the same thing every single time you come back.

We don't use cookies to build secret profiles or sell your habits to anyone. The goal is straightforward: make the site usable and learn which content the cycling community finds worth their time.

The Types of Cookies Used on This Site

Not all cookies do the same job. These are the cookies running on our pages right now.

Third-Party and External Tracking Technologies

Some cookies come from services we rely on rather than from us directly. Here's where they fit.

External Analytics

We're planning to use a third-party analytics service to measure traffic more reliably than we can on our own. When that goes live, it may set its own cookies to count visits and sessions. We'll name the provider here once it's in place.

Advertising Partners

None active today. Should we partner with an advertising network down the line, those partners might place cookies to serve relevant content. That's a future possibility, not a current practice, and it would come with its own notice.

CDN and Hosting

To keep pages quick for everyone — whether you're checking a route in the city or loading a training plan on patchy rural signal — we serve some files through a content delivery network. These services may set technical cookies that help with security and faster load times. They're not used to track your browsing.

Controlling and Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You're in charge of what stays on your device. Every major browser lets you manage cookies.

Head into your browser settings and look for the privacy or cookies section. From there you can block all cookies, delete existing ones, or set the browser to ask you each time a site tries to store something. The exact steps differ between Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge, but the option is always there under privacy controls.

Here's the trade-off, though.

If you block essential cookies, parts of the site stop behaving properly. You might find that preferences don't save, or that you get asked the same questions on every visit. Disabling analytics cookies won't break anything for you — it just means we lose a little insight into what's working.

For a fuller picture of how we handle your data beyond cookies, see our Privacy Policy.

Policy Updates and Contact Information

We'll revise this policy when our practices change — for instance, if we add the analytics or advertising cookies mentioned above. The date at the top of this page always reflects the most recent update.

When changes are significant, we'll flag them through the cookie banner or a notice on the site, so you won't have to go hunting for what's new. Smaller wording tweaks may happen without a formal alert, which is why the last-updated date is your reliable reference point.

This page covers cookies specifically; it doesn't replace the broader terms governing your use of the site.

Questions about anything here? Reach us through our Contact page. You can also review our full Terms of Service for the wider agreement that applies when you use the site.