Cookie Policy
Last updated: 8 September 2026
The short version
This site sets no advertising cookies, no tracking cookies, and no third-party analytics cookies. That is why you are not seeing a consent banner.
Why there's no banner
Consent banners are required when a site sets non-essential cookies — advertising, cross-site tracking, or cookie-based analytics. This site sets none of those.
Our analytics come from Ghost's built-in system, which is cookieless by design: it uses no cookies and no persistent browser storage, and counts unique visitors within rolling 24-hour windows rather than following you between sessions or devices. There is nothing to consent to, so we don't interrupt you to ask.
We also chose not to install a third-party live chat widget, which is one of the most common reasons a site suddenly needs a banner.
Cookies actually in use
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Type | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ghost-members-ssr | Ghost | Keeps you signed in to your membership account | Strictly necessary | Session / persistent while signed in |
ghost-members-ssr.sig | Ghost | Signature validating the session cookie above | Strictly necessary | Same as above |
__cf_bm (if present) | Cloudflare | Bot management, protects the site from automated abuse | Strictly necessary | 30 minutes |
Strictly necessary cookies don't require consent, because the service you asked for cannot work without them. Sign-in is not possible without a session cookie.
What we deliberately do not use
- No Google Analytics (see below)
- No advertising or retargeting pixels — no Meta pixel, no LinkedIn Insight tag, no Google Ads tag
- No third-party chat widget
- No social media tracking embeds (the YouTube player on the homepage is explained below)
- No fingerprinting
Our fonts are served from this site rather than from Google Fonts, so loading a page makes no third-party connection, with one exception: the free masterclass video on the homepage, described below.
The masterclass video on the homepage
The free masterclass on the homepage is YouTube's embedded player in its privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). The player loads with the page and starts muted, so your browser contacts YouTube as soon as you open the homepage, and YouTube may store data in your browser under Google's privacy policy. Pressing "Click to listen" turns the sound on, which YouTube treats as watching the video. If you would rather not load YouTube at all, a browser setting or extension that blocks third-party frames does it; the rest of the site works without it.
To bring you back to where you stopped, the site keeps one small item in your browser's local storage: the video's position, saved only after you press "Click to listen". It stays on your device, is never sent to us, and is removed when the video ends or when you clear your browser data.
Third parties you reach by leaving
When you click through to Hotmart, Stripe, Gumroad, Google Calendar, YouTube, LinkedIn or Instagram, you're on their site, under their cookie policy. We have no control over what they set.
Managing cookies
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking the two Ghost cookies above will prevent you signing in to your membership account, but everything else on the site will work.
Questions
Email support@thesustainableproductivity.com. See also the Privacy Policy.