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Cookie Policy

Every cookie and every item of browser storage this website uses. The list is short, and it is complete.

Version: 1.0
Effective: 21 September 2026
Last updated: 21 September 2026

1. The short answer

A visitor who reads this website receives no cookies and nothing is stored in their browser. We use no analytics, no advertising and no social media tracking, and the pages load nothing from any other website.

Something is stored only after you do something specific: choose a display setting, change a setting on the Cookie Settings page, or — for the founders — sign in to the administration console.

2. What cookies and browser storage are

A cookie is a small piece of text a website asks your browser to keep and send back on later visits. Local storage is similar, but stays in your browser and is never sent to the website automatically. The law treats them alike: anything a website stores on your device needs your consent unless it is strictly necessary for something you have asked for. This policy uses “cookies” for both.

3. Categories

Category	Used here	Consent needed	What it covers
Strictly necessary	Yes	No	Needed for a part of the website you have asked to use. They cannot be switched off, and none of them tracks you.
Display preferences	Yes	No	Remember a display setting you chose yourself, such as the dark theme or reduced motion. Nothing is stored until you choose, and you can turn this off.
External media	Yes	Asked each time	Films hosted on YouTube or Vimeo. Nothing is loaded from either until you press play on a specific video, and the player tells you which service it is before you do.
Analytics	No	—	Not used. This website does not measure or record how visitors use it.
Advertising and marketing	No	—	Not used. There are no advertising cookies, marketing pixels or retargeting tags.
Social media tracking	No	—	Not used. The links to our social media accounts are ordinary links; nothing is loaded from those platforms unless you follow one.

4. Everything this website stores

Name	Type	Category	Set by	Purpose	Kept for	How to remove it
`cj_admin`	Cookie	Strictly necessary	Circular Journey (first party)	Keeps a founder signed in to the administration console. Set only when an administrator signs in; never set for visitors.	8 hours, or until signing out	Removed on signing out, or when it expires.
`cj-consent`	Local storage	Strictly necessary	Circular Journey (first party)	Remembers the choices you make in Cookie Settings, so they are respected on your next visit.	Until you clear it	Use "Clear everything" in Cookie Settings, or clear site data in your browser.
`cj-theme`	Local storage	Display preferences	Circular Journey (first party)	Remembers whether you chose the light or the dark theme. Stored only after you choose one.	Until you clear it	Turn off display preferences in Cookie Settings, or clear site data in your browser.
`cj-motion`	Local storage	Display preferences	Circular Journey (first party)	Remembers whether you asked for full or reduced animation. Stored only after you choose one.	Until you clear it	Turn off display preferences in Cookie Settings, or clear site data in your browser.

None of these identifies you, is shared with anyone, or is used to follow you around this website or any other.

5. Films hosted on YouTube or Vimeo

Some Circular Journey films may be hosted on YouTube or Vimeo. The player on this website loads nothing from either until you press play on a specific film, and names the service on the play button before you do. Pressing play is your choice to load it; nothing is loaded in the background.

When a film does play, the service that hosts it may set its own cookies and record what it records, under its own policy. To limit that, YouTube films play in YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode and Vimeo films with Vimeo’s do-not-track setting.

YouTube (Google) — privacy policy
Vimeo — privacy policy

6. Why there is no cookie banner

A cookie banner exists to ask permission for cookies that need it. This website has none: nothing is stored until you ask for something, and external films ask at the moment you press play. A banner here would ask permission for nothing, and would teach visitors to click “accept” without reading, which is the opposite of what consent is for.

If we ever add something that does need permission — an analytics tool, for example — a banner will appear on your next visit, with “Accept all” and “Reject non-essential” given equal weight, and nothing optional will load until you have answered.

7. How to control and remove them

Open Cookie Settings, linked from the foot of every page. It shows what this website has stored on your device right now, lets you stop it remembering display preferences, and removes everything with one button.

You can also delete or block cookies and local storage in your browser’s settings. Blocking them does not stop this website working; a display preference you choose simply will not be remembered next time.

8. How we keep this list accurate

We check this list by loading every section of the website in a fresh browser as a new visitor, recording every cookie, every item of browser storage and the address of every request the pages make, and comparing the result with this page. The list on this page is the same list the website’s own Cookie Settings read, so it cannot describe something the website does not do. If you find anything we have missed, tell us at [email protected].

Version history

Version	Date	Change
1.0	21 September 2026	First published.