Stored and Sent: Privacy
Updated
Two lists make up this page: what a visit to Fold, Knot & Bind sends to other services, and what it leaves in the browser. There are no accounts, comments, newsletters, forms or ads here, so the lists are short.
Sent to Google Analytics
Visits are counted with Google Analytics 4, which uses first-party cookies. It reports to Google which pages were opened, which page led there, the kind of device and browser, and roughly where the visit came from. None of it feeds advertising; the three advertising settings (storage, data use and personalization) are off. Google explains its own handling of such data at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Whether Google Analytics runs at all depends on the visitor's location:
- Asked first. Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or a territory under the same rules, and visitors whose country is unknown, see a consent notice. Nothing from Google loads before they accept: no request, no cookie. A visitor who declines is never counted by it.
- Not asked. For everyone else Google Analytics starts a moment after the page, triggered by whichever happens first: a first click, tap, key press or scroll; the browser going idle once the page has loaded; or roughly four seconds from the start of loading.
To tell the two groups apart, the page asks this site's own address for the two-letter country code that Cloudflare, the network serving the site, attaches to each visit. The code is used to make this choice and for no other purpose. Every page has a link at its foot for changing the choice later; taking consent back triggers a reload, after which Google Analytics stays off.
Sent to Cloudflare Web Analytics
Cloudflare runs a small script of its own that counts page views and times how quickly pages load. It uses no cookies and writes nothing to the browser's storage, and according to Cloudflare it does no fingerprinting. The consent notice does not govern it: it runs for all visitors and reports back through this site's own domain. A content blocker that blocks static.cloudflareinsights.com will turn it off.
Left in the browser
- One local storage entry, named stats-pref-cfc3, holds the consent answer, so the notice is not shown again on each page.
- If the light and dark switch is pressed, that preference is also kept in this browser, in a local storage entry named fkb-shade. Until the switch is pressed, nothing is stored for it.
The search box only narrows a list the page already contains; what is typed stays in the browser. Diagrams are plain images that collect nothing. Fonts and images are served from this site's own domain, with no outside font services and no embedded social media.
Mail to contact@foldknotbind.com is used for one thing: acting on the correction, source or rights question it raises.
Last updated 2026-11-15.