Cookies and analytics

Cookies are small files a site saves in your browser. This page says what our site saves, why, and how to change your choice.

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Russian original. This English text is a translation for convenience. If the two differ, the Russian version applies.

The site sets no analytics cookies. We count visits with our own cookie-free statistics, kept on our server in Russia, which cannot recognise you across days. If we add Yandex Metrica, the site will ask for your consent first.

Technical: always on

These are not cookies but entries in your browser’s storage. They let the site remember your choice and attach to a request where you came from. They stay in your browser, are not sent anywhere on their own and are not used for tracking, so we do not ask for consent to them.

simaranov-cookie · local storage

Purpose
Remembers your choice in the cookie notice.
Duration
365 days, then we ask again.

brief-src · session storage

Purpose
Remembers campaign tags (UTM) and the site you came from, to attach them to a request.
Duration
Deleted when you close the tab. Reaches us only if you send a request.

Analytics: only with your consent

Yandex Metrica

Purpose
To see how many people visit, which pages they read and where they come from, so we can make the site clearer.
Cookies
_ym_uid, _ym_d (up to 1 year), _ym_isad and other Metrica cookies on our domain, plus cookies on Yandex domains under Yandex’s rules.
Processed by
Yandex LLC, 16 Lva Tolstogo St., Moscow 119021, on the operator’s behalf (Article 6(3) of the Personal Data Law) under the Yandex Metrica terms of use.
Turned off
Webvisor (session recording) is not used.

Changing your choice or turning cookies off

  • If Metrica is added, a “Change my choice” button will appear here.
  • Delete or block cookies in your browser settings. This also clears the necessary data, and the site will ask for your choice again.
  • To stop Yandex Metrica collecting data on any site, you can install the Yandex Metrica opt-out extension.

More about data in the Privacy policy.