Cookie and storage notice
In effect from 2 September 2026 · ArenaGauge, published by Charlotte Walsh, Melbourne, Victoria
1. In one paragraph
ArenaGauge sets no cookie of its own, and in ordinary delivery no cookie is set at all — not by the site, not by the network in front of it. The site keeps one thing in your browser: your answer to the notice at the bottom of the page, which never leaves your device. Cloudflare, Inc., which delivers these pages, adds one script of its own to the HTML — Cloudflare Web Analytics — and it stores nothing in your browser.
2. The full list
| Name | Category | Purpose | Duration | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ag_consent_state | Preference (browser local storage, not a cookie) | Records your answer so the notice is not shown again on this device. | Until you clear site data for this domain | First party — set by this site, never transmitted |
| __cf_bm | Strictly necessary security cookie | May be set by Cloudflare to tell a browser apart from automated traffic. | Up to 30 minutes | Third party — Cloudflare, Inc. (United States) |
| cf_clearance | Strictly necessary security cookie | May be set after a visitor passes a security challenge, so that it is not repeated. | Up to 12 months | Third party — Cloudflare, Inc. (United States) |
Both Cloudflare entries are marked "may be set": neither was present when this notice was last checked, and they appear only where the network is filtering unusual traffic. Neither identifies you.
3. What the notice at the bottom of the page actually does
The site sets nothing that requires consent, so the notice is informational rather than a gate. Accept writes accepted to the key named above; Decline writes declined. Either way the notice stops appearing on that device and nothing else changes: your choice loads no script and sends no request. The Cloudflare script in section 5 is inserted by the network before you answer, and neither button affects it.
4. Clearing what is stored
You can remove the preference key by clearing site data for arenagauge.com in your browser settings, usually under privacy or site permissions; the notice then appears again on your next visit. A Cloudflare security cookie, if one is ever set, is cleared the same way. Blocking storage for this domain breaks nothing.
5. The one third-party script, and what is absent
One script on these pages is not the publisher's: Cloudflare inserts Cloudflare Web Analytics (static.cloudflareinsights.com) into the HTML as it delivers the site, so it cannot be removed by editing a page. It reports the page address, the referring page, page-loading measurements, the browser and device type and the country derived from your IP address. It sets no cookie and stores nothing in your browser, gives you no identifier and does not follow you between sites; the privacy statement covers it in full. Beyond that:
- No measurement of the publisher's own — no counter, tag manager or logging tool.
- No fingerprinting script, and nothing that identifies you personally.
- No social network buttons, embedded video or externally loaded font.
- No form, so nothing is ever submitted from these pages.
Apart from that one script, every file the site loads — stylesheet, script, images, typefaces — is served from arenagauge.com itself.
6. Changes and questions
If the site ever needs to store anything else, this notice and the table are updated first and the date at the top changes with it. Questions go to desk@arenagauge.com, or by post to Charlotte Walsh, 8 Rankins Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia.
7. Effective date
This notice takes effect on 2 September 2026 and replaces any earlier version.