What is set on this domain, and by whom
OldPubs sets one cookie of its own, and only if you sign in to the snug. It is called op_s,
it holds a random string and nothing else — no name, no email address, no identifier that means
anything away from our server — and it is what keeps you signed in for 90 days, or until you sign
out. It is HttpOnly, so no script on the page can read it, and SameSite=Lax, so another site
cannot use it to make a request to us on your behalf.
That cookie is strictly necessary: without it, signing in could not work at all, which is why there is no banner asking about it. You choose whether it exists by choosing whether to sign in, and signing out removes it. There is no tracking cookie, and we set nothing for advertising ourselves.
If you never sign in, the site sets no cookie of its own at all. At the date of this policy it
sets no cookies at all for a reader who has not joined, because advertising is not yet running.
Apart from Google’s own advertising and consent cookies, described below, we set nothing else. The first to appear will be your consent choice: once
advertising is switched on and the notice appears, Google’s
Privacy and messaging tool stores what you chose in a first-party cookie on oldpubs.com
(FCCDCF, which lasts 13 months, or FCNEC, which lasts 365 days, if you chose
non-personalised ads) so that you are not asked again on every page. It records your answer and
nothing else, and without it the notice could not work.
Google’s advertising also sets first-party cookies on oldpubs.com once it is running —
__gads and __gpi, each lasting 13 months — which it uses to serve ads, cap how often you see
the same one and detect fraud. A third, __eoi, lasts six months and is listed by Google
under security only, not advertising — the category it uses for preventing fraud and protecting
readers, rather than for choosing what you are shown. They are Google’s, not ours: we never read
them and nothing we build uses them.
The bot check on the join form and the memory composer is Cloudflare Turnstile. It does not set the cookie Cloudflare’s firewall challenges set, but the widget does keep a small amount of its own state in your browser while it runs. It is on those two pages and nowhere else.
Those are the only cookies we expect this domain to carry, and every lifetime given above is Google’s own figure, read on 12 September 2026 from its list of cookies used by Google for advertising. We neither set them nor control how long they last.
Two other things involve storage or third parties, and they are set out below.
Storage on your own device
Four small items are kept in your own browser. None of this is cookie storage: none of it is ever sent with a request, none of it reaches us, and it stays on the device you used.
oldpubs.passport— the pubs you have ticked off in the Pint Passport.oldpubs.quizBest— your best score in “which is older?”.oldpubs.map— the map filters and sort order you last chose.oldpubs.wantsLocation— a note, kept only until you close the tab, that you pressed “use my location” on the home page.
Clearing your browser’s site data for oldpubs.com removes all of it permanently, and there is no backup. The site works perfectly well without any of it.
Advertising cookies
Advertising will be served by Google through AdSense. None is running yet, so no advertising cookie is set today. Once it is, Google and its advertising partners may set cookies to serve ads, cap how often you see the same one, measure performance and detect fraud, and — with consent — to personalise what you are shown.
In the UK, the EEA and Switzerland no advertising cookie is set before you make a choice. The consent notice is Google’s certified Privacy and messaging tool, built on the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. Until you choose, no advertising cookie is written.
To change or withdraw your choice, use the Cookie settings button in the Legal column at the foot of any page. It reopens Google’s consent notice with the choices you made, so refusing what you once allowed takes the same single step that allowing it did. It is there whenever advertising is running, which is whenever there is a choice to withdraw. Clearing this site’s cookies and reloading also brings the notice back, and you can refuse or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time — the site works perfectly well without them, because it needs none to function.
To limit personalised advertising more broadly, use Google Ads Settings, optout.aboutads.info, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s YourAdChoices tool, or youronlinechoices.eu.
Analytics
Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views without cookies and without collecting personal data or cross-site identifiers, so there is nothing here to consent to or opt out of. It has been running since 21 September 2026, and it sets nothing on your device.
Maps
Opening a map loads tiles from OpenFreeMap. Your browser contacts that service directly, so your IP address reaches it, as it would with any map. Loading a tile does not set a cookie on this site.
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Our privacy policy covers the wider picture, including legal bases and your rights.
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