Cookies

Last updated 4 September 2026

Ticked sets no cookies. Not necessary ones, not analytics ones, not advertising ones. Nothing is written to your device, and nothing is read from it. That is why you have not been shown a cookie banner: the law requires consent for storing or accessing information on your device, and this site does neither.

What about local storage, or anything like it?

Nothing. Your worksheet options are held in the page's address bar while you are on it — that is what lets you share a link to a particular sheet — and are forgotten the moment you close the tab. They are never written to your device.

The same goes for the weekly-email box on the year pages: the address you type there goes to our email provider, not to your device — the privacy policy says what happens to it. Nothing here remembers that you signed up, which is why the box is still there next time.

When you make, print or download a sheet, we do count that it happened and which options were set, as a tally with nothing attached to it — the privacy policy sets out exactly what that records. It still writes nothing to your device and reads nothing from it, which is why there is still no banner. If your browser sends the Global Privacy Control signal, it is not counted at all.

How does the analytics work without cookies?

Cloudflare Web Analytics counts a page view without identifying the visitor and without storing anything on your device. It cannot follow you across sites, and it cannot build a profile, because it has nowhere to keep one. It does process your IP address in transit, which the privacy policy explains. It is not loaded at all if your browser sends Global Privacy Control.

This was a deliberate choice over the more common analytics tools, which set cookies and would have obliged us to put a banner in front of a site whose whole promise is that you can print a worksheet in ten seconds without signing up for anything.

Switching the counting off

Turn on Global Privacy Control in your browser. In Firefox it is under Settings › Privacy & Security, as "Tell websites not to sell or share my data"; Brave sends it by default. While it is on, this site loads no analytics script and records no worksheet tally. Adding ?notrack=1 to a page's address does the same for that page while it is open.

Neither choice is remembered by us, because there is nothing here to remember it with: your browser sends the signal with every page, and the site reads it fresh every time.

What would have to change

Ticked is free to use and free of charge. If it is ever funded by advertising, that will change this page, because advertising technology stores and reads information on your device — even non-personalised advertising does, for frequency capping and fraud prevention. If that day comes:

• you will be asked for consent before any advertising code loads, not after;
• refusing will be exactly as easy, and as prominent, as accepting;
• this page and the privacy policy will be rewritten first, describing what is actually set and by whom.

Until then, the only thing to opt out of is the counting, and Global Privacy Control does that without your having to tell us.