Last updated: 21 July 2026.
This page explains the cookies I’d Rather Cycle (idrathercycle.org) uses. It sits alongside our privacy policy.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a website can store in your browser, for example to remember a setting between pages. Some are essential for a site to work; others are used for things like analytics or advertising and need your consent.
The cookie we always set
One cookie is set whatever you choose, because it is strictly necessary:
- irc_consent — a first-party cookie that records your choice in the cookie banner (accept or reject), so you are not asked again on every page. It lasts about six months and contains nothing that identifies you.
Analytics without cookies
We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which deliberately sets no cookies and does not track you across other sites. It runs whether or not you accept, because it needs neither cookies nor your consent to count a page view.
Google Analytics also loads on every page, but until you accept it runs in Google’s consent-denied mode: it sets no cookies and sends only an anonymous, cookieless ping. Nothing on this site is stored in your browser for analytics unless you say yes.
Cookies set only if you accept
If you choose Accept all, these are set:
- _ga and _ga_QB6D9WJ715 — Google Analytics. They give your browser a random identifier so repeat visits can be recognised as the same person, and they last about 400 days.
- Microsoft Clarity loads from your next page view onwards. It records how you use a page — scrolling, clicks, mouse movement — and sends that session to Microsoft so we can see where the site is confusing. Microsoft documents two cookies for this (_clck and _clsk); we did not observe them being set in our own testing, but we list them here so you know what to expect.
Advertising
We do not run advertising, and no advertising cookies are set. Until 21 July 2026 this site loaded the Google AdSense tag without ever showing an ad; we have removed it. If we introduce advertising later, we will update this page before it goes live, and it will only run for visitors who have accepted.
Managing your choice
You control non-essential cookies through the banner that appears on your first visit: Accept all or Reject non-essential. Rejecting is a real choice: no analytics cookies are stored, Clarity never loads, and we still get an anonymous count of the visit.
You can also clear cookies for this site in your browser at any time, which will make the banner appear again, and most browsers let you block or delete cookies entirely through their settings.