A Policy Concerning Cookies

Being a frank, if reluctant, disclosure

Last revised: 10 February 2026  

Applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United Kingdom (and anyone else who wandered in)

§ 1

An introduction of sorts

Welcome to diariumabsurdi.com. You have, presumably, arrived here of your own volition, though I would not rule out other explanations. This website uses cookies. Not the edible kind, which would at least offer some consolation. The digital kind. They are very small and completely unsatisfying.

We are obliged to tell you about them. So here we are.

§ 2

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file that takes up residence in your browser. It remembers things about your visit — not the important things, the things you might wish someone remembered, but rather technical things of interest only to servers. It will be there long after you have forgotten you ever visited this website. In this way, it is not unlike certain houseguests.

§ 3

What is a script?

A script is a small piece of code that runs on our server or your device in order to make things function properly. It operates silently and without complaint, which is more than can be said for most things.

§ 4

What is a web beacon?

A web beacon is a tiny, invisible element — a piece of text or image so small as to be imperceptible — that monitors traffic on a website.

§ 5

The cookies we use

We use only functional cookies: the sort that remember your preferences so that the website continues to work. Without them, certain things would cease to function in an orderly manner. We felt this was already happening quite enough without our assistance.

Specifically, we use cookies from Complianz (to manage the very consent you are currently reading about, which has a pleasingly recursive quality) and WordPress (to keep the site operational). There are also miscellaneous cookies whose purpose remains, at time of writing, under investigation. They are doing something. We are not entirely sure what.

§ 6

Your consent

When you first arrived, a small pop-up appeared asking for your preferences. If you clicked “Save preferences,” you consented. If you did not click it, it may still be there. These things have a tendency to linger.

You may disable cookies via your browser. The website may then cease to function properly. We mention this not as a threat, but as one of those neutral facts of existence that one learns to accommodate.

§ 7

Your rights

You have rights with respect to your personal data. A rather generous number of them, as it happens. You may know why your data is collected. You may access it, correct it, delete it, or transfer it elsewhere. You may object to its processing. We will comply, unless there are — and here the legislation uses a phrase Oswin has underlined in his notebook — justified grounds. There are very few justified grounds. We do not anticipate needing any.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. If you have a complaint, you are also welcome to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office, which exists for precisely this purpose and, unlike many things, actually does what it is supposed to do.

Residents of Jersey may contact the Jersey Office of The Information Commissioner. Residents of Guernsey, the Office of the Data Protection Authority in Guernsey.

We trust you know which island you are on.