Last updated: August 2026.
The state of things
A cookie is a small piece of data a website asks your browser to store and hand back on later visits. It is how sites remember a login, a shopping cart, or that a particular browser has been counted before.
tipsandknowhow.com needs none of that. The pages are static, there is nothing to log into, nothing to add to a cart, and no preference worth remembering between visits. So the site itself stores nothing on your device: no analytics cookies, no first-party advertising or retargeting cookies, no tracking identifiers in local storage, no session cookies, and no split-testing cookies. One piece of third-party code is now present, Google's advertising script, and its own section below explains what it does and when.
Why there is no consent banner yet
Consent banners exist to get permission for cookies that are not strictly necessary, chiefly the measurement and advertising kind. None of those are being set yet, so there is still nothing to consent to and still no banner. That changes when ads begin serving. Visitors in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland will then see a prompt from a Google-certified consent management platform, and personalized ads will run for them only if they agree. The banner arrives with the ads rather than as a ritual run in advance of them.
Cookies from Cloudflare
These pages are delivered through Cloudflare, and that layer may set strictly necessary operational cookies as part of doing its job. Cookies of this type support security and delivery: distinguishing genuine visitors from automated abuse, applying protective measures during an attack, and keeping requests routed correctly.
They are functional rather than commercial. They are not used to build an advertising profile, they do not follow you across unrelated websites, and they are not read by the TipsAndKnowHow editors, who have no interface for doing so. Cloudflare documents its own cookies and their purposes as the provider that sets them.
Google advertising cookies
This site participates in Google AdSense, and Google's advertising script now sits in these pages. An earlier version of this page promised the policies would be rewritten before any ad code went live, and that is the update you are reading. Until Google approves the site and ads begin serving, the script places no advertising, and no advertising cookies come with it.
Once ads serve, Google and its partners may set advertising cookies and comparable identifiers. Their jobs are the standard ones for the category: delivering the ad, capping how often you see the same one, measuring whether it was seen or clicked, and, with consent where the law requires it, personalizing what is shown based on prior visits to this site and others. The privacy policy describes the same arrangement from the data side.
The controls stack in three places. Your browser can block or clear the cookies outright, as the section below explains. Personalized advertising from Google can be turned off at Google's Ads Settings, and aboutads.info/choices covers other participating vendors in one pass. And for readers in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland, the certified consent platform described above must get a yes before personalized ads run at all.
Controlling cookies yourself
Cookie control belongs to your browser, not to individual websites. Every current browser keeps these controls in its settings under a privacy or site-data section, where you can review what is stored, delete it, block third-party cookies, block cookies entirely, or clear everything when the browser closes. Private or incognito windows discard cookies at the end of the session. Browser menus change often enough that step-by-step instructions printed here would go stale, so use your browser's own help pages for the current path.
Blocking cookies broadly can break sites that depend on them for logins and carts. It will not break this one. The guides render the same either way, because nothing here relies on remembering you.
Questions
Ask about anything on this page at contact@tipsandknowhow.com. This policy is updated in place when the facts change.