Cookies and related technologies

A cookie is a small text file placed on your device when you open a website. It lets the site remember a preference between page loads or count a visit without asking who you are. Similar results can be achieved with local storage and pixel tags, and everything written here applies to those techniques too.

forwinesake.com keeps its use of them deliberately narrow. There is no account to stay signed into and no basket to remember, so the site works with a handful of files rather than a long list.

Strictly necessary cookies keep the site usable: they remember that you passed the age prompt, store your answer to this very cookie banner and help protect pages against automated abuse. They carry no marketing value and cannot be switched off without breaking the site, which is why UK rules allow them without prior consent.

Measurement cookies, where enabled, count visits and show which reviews are read to the end. The figures are aggregated and are used to decide what to write next and what to fix. Nothing in this group loads before you accept it in the banner.

Affiliate cookies may be set by the operator you click through to, so that the visit is attributed to this site. They are placed by the destination platform, governed by its policy, and give us no access to your account, your balance or your play. We set no advertising cookies of our own and run no retargeting.

You can change your mind whenever you like. Every mainstream browser lets you view, block or delete cookies for a single site, and clearing them for forwinesake.com will bring the consent banner back on your next visit. Blocking the necessary group may mean the age prompt reappears each time.

This page is reviewed whenever the tools behind the site change. Questions about cookies, or a request to see what a specific file does, can be sent to contact@forwinesake.com. Guidance on cookies for UK users is also published by the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.