Cookie policy

Last reviewed and updated: July 17, 2026

1. Plain terms first

The word cookies here means everything a site can park in your browser to remember something between pages or visits: classic cookies, localStorage entries, and their relatives. This page is the complete, dated inventory for travelinggoosephotography.com, operated by Traveling Goose Photography LLC, together with every way to say no. It is written in plain language on purpose, because a cookie policy you cannot understand is not really a disclosure.

The headline is short. Today this site stores exactly one small item in your browser, and it is there only to remember the choice you make in the cookie notice. Everything else described below is optional, switched off by default, and would run only if you asked for it.

2. What this site actually stores

Strictly necessary, always on

One localStorage entry, tgp_consent_v1, recording the button you pressed in the cookie notice, either Accept all or Only necessary. It holds that single word, it never leaves your browser, and it exists so the notice does not reappear on every page you open. Without it, the banner would follow you around the site, which helps no one. Because it is required for the site to honor your own choice, it is classed as strictly necessary and is not subject to consent.

Analytics, optional and off by default

If aggregate readership measurement is ever enabled, it would load only after you choose Accept all. Its purpose would be limited to understanding which essays are read and how people arrive, in aggregate, never to identify you individually. Choosing Only necessary keeps it off, and every essay reads identically either way. At the date below, no analytics is active.

Advertising, optional and off by default

If clearly labeled third-party advertising is ever shown, the network serving it may set cookies to deliver and measure ads and, with your consent, to personalize them. Those cookies would belong to the network and follow its own privacy policy. They would be set only after you choose Accept all; with Only necessary, any advertising that appeared would be non-personalized. At the date below, no advertising network is active.

3. Why this site stores so little

A craft journal does not need to watch its readers to do its job. There is no shopping cart to remember, no account to keep you signed in to, no personalized feed to assemble, and nothing to sell you between paragraphs. An essay about blue-hour exposure reads the same whether we know anything about you or nothing at all, and we have chosen nothing at all as the default. The single consent entry exists only so the notice can keep its word and stay out of your way once you have answered it. Everything else that a website could technically store, we have left out, and this page exists so that decision is visible rather than assumed. If the site ever grew a feature that genuinely needed to remember something for you, we would add it to the inventory above, explain why it earns its place, and, where it is not strictly necessary, ask before setting it.

4. The inventory, dated

As of July 17, 2026, the complete list of storage this site itself sets is a single item:

Name	tgp_consent_v1
Type	localStorage entry (not a network cookie)
Purpose	Remembers your cookie-notice choice so it is not shown again
Category	Strictly necessary
Contents	One word: your choice, either full or minimal
Shared with anyone?	No; it never leaves your browser
Expiry	Stays until you clear your browser storage for this site

No analytics or advertising storage is currently active. If that ever changes, this inventory is updated first, before anything new is set, so this table is always the source of truth.

5. How consent works here

The first time you visit, a short notice appears with two buttons, and your choice applies across the whole site:

• If you choose Accept all: the necessary entry is saved, and any optional analytics or advertising that is active at the time would be allowed to load. Today, nothing optional exists, so in practice the result is the same as the minimal choice.
• If you choose Only necessary: just the single necessary entry is saved, and no optional storage is set now or later without a fresh choice from you.
• If you make no choice: no optional storage runs. Optional categories wait for a clear, opt-in yes; silence is treated as no.

You can change your mind at any time using the browser controls below, and because the site starts from off, changing your mind never leaves anything running that you did not ask for.

6. Managing cookies in your browser

Every modern browser can block or delete cookies and site storage, either for one site or everywhere, and can be set to clear them each time you close it. Blocking everything for this site breaks nothing; you will simply see the notice again on your next visit, because the entry that remembers your choice was cleared along with the rest. The controls live in your browser settings, usually under a Privacy or Privacy and security heading, and then a Cookies and site data or Site settings panel. You do not need any link from us to reach them; open your browser settings and search within them for the word cookies.

The wording differs a little from browser to browser, but the path is always short. In most desktop browsers you open the settings menu, choose the privacy section, and look for site data or cookies, where you can clear data for a single site or set the browser to wipe everything on exit. On phones and tablets the same options sit inside the browser app's own settings rather than the operating system, under a similarly named privacy heading. If you use private or incognito windows, most browsers discard site storage automatically when you close the last such window, so the consent entry would not persist between sessions and the notice would greet you each time. None of these choices lock you out of anything here, because there is nothing behind a login to be locked out of.

If you clear this site's data specifically, the notice will ask again next time, which is the simplest way to reset your choice. You can repeat that as often as you like, and switching from Accept all to Only necessary, or the reverse, is simply a matter of clearing the entry and answering the notice again.

7. Industry opt-outs and browser signals

For interest-based advertising in general, across the wider web rather than this site alone, the self-regulatory opt-out pages run by the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative let you decline personalization across many networks at once. Both are easy to find by name in any search engine. Some browsers also send a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal; where a law gives that signal legal effect, and if this site ever runs the kind of data sharing such a signal governs, the signal would be respected as an opt-out. Today there is nothing here for it to opt you out of.

It is worth being clear about scope. Those industry tools and browser signals act on the wider advertising ecosystem, not on this site's single consent entry, which you manage with the browser controls described above. Because this site sets nothing for advertising or analytics at the date below, using an opt-out page changes nothing about your visit here; its value is elsewhere, on the many sites that do run such tracking. We mention the tools anyway, so that this policy is complete and so that a reader who wants to reduce tracking across the web knows where the general controls live, rather than assuming they must be hidden behind a link we are unwilling to describe in plain words.

8. How this connects to privacy

Cookie questions are really privacy questions, so the two policies are meant to be read together. The privacy policy explains what personal information the site collects, who processes it, how long it is kept, and the rights you hold. This page is the narrower, technical companion about browser storage specifically. Where the two touch, for example on the subject of analytics or advertising that has not been switched on, they are written to say the same thing, and if you ever find them in tension, the privacy policy governs and we would want to hear about the discrepancy so we can fix it.

9. Changes

If the storage this site uses ever changes, the inventory table above is updated before anything new is set, and the date below moves with it. Nothing optional is added quietly. A change here means a change you can see: a new row in the table, a plain description of what it does, and, for anything beyond the strictly necessary, a request for your consent before it runs.

10. Questions

Cookie and storage questions go to [email protected], or through the contact form using the privacy topic. A person will answer.