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This site stores one thing on your device without asking, and it is your answer to the question below. Everything else waits for your consent. This page is the whole inventory.
Stored without asking: three things
Your answer to the cookie question, which background you chose for the globe on the about page, and a half-finished Motion Sprint story if you started one. All three are cases the law lets us store without consent, because each records something you did deliberately, and without them the site cannot honour what you just told it.
- What
- A single stored value holding one word: granted or denied.
- Where
- Your browser's local storage. It is not a cookie, so it is never attached to a request and never travels to us or to anyone else.
- Set by
- Anima Atelier Ltd, from this site.
- How long
- Until you clear your browser data for this site, at which point the question comes back.
The third is a Motion Sprint story in progress. It is saved as you answer so that leaving the page, or coming back tomorrow, does not cost you the work; it never leaves your browser until you press send, and clearing it is a link in the corner of the form itself.
- What
- A stored value named anima.sprint.story.v3, holding the answers you have given so far, the contact details you entered, and how far through you are.
- Where
- Your browser's local storage. It is not a cookie, so it never travels with a request; it reaches us only when you finish the form and send it.
- Set by
- Anima Atelier Ltd, from this site.
- How long
- Until you send the form, press Start over, or clear your browser data for this site.
The second is the globe's background. It is a cookie rather than a stored value, which means it is attached to requests to this site; it holds one word naming a colour scheme and nothing else, and it is never read by us.
- What
- A cookie named anima_sky_v1, holding the name of the background you picked, such as dusk or reef.
- Where
- Your browser, sent back to this site with requests. Nothing on our side reads it: the page that uses it runs in your browser.
- Set by
- Anima Atelier Ltd, from this site.
- How long
- A year, or until you clear your browser data for this site.
Stored only if you agree: analytics
Google Analytics, which tells us which work gets looked at, how far down a page people read, and where they leave. Decline and none of it loads: not a disabled tag, not a cookieless ping. The script is never fetched.
- _ga
- Gives your browser a randomly generated identifier so two visits can be counted as one person rather than two. Set by Google. Lasts two years.
- _ga_<id>
- Keeps the state of your current session for the same purpose. Set by Google. Lasts two years.
Neither holds your name, your address, or anything you type into a form, and your IP address is anonymised before it is recorded. We do not use any of it for advertising: Google's cross-device signals and ad personalisation are switched off in our configuration rather than left at a default.
What is never set
No advertising or retargeting cookies. No social media pixels. No session recording, heatmaps or mouse tracking. No cross-site tracking of any kind, and nothing sold or passed to a data broker.
Video on this site is served from the studio's own hosting rather than embedded from YouTube or Vimeo, so watching a film here does not hand you to a third party.
Changing your answer
Use the switch below. It takes effect immediately rather than on the next page you load, and if you withdraw consent anything already set for analytics is cleared.
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser's own settings. Doing that will clear your stored answer too, so the question will come back the next time you visit.
More, and who to ask
The privacy notice explains what happens to information you send the studio deliberately, such as an enquiry or a call booking, along with your rights over it and how long it is kept.
Anything here that is not clear: christian@animastudio.co.uk. A person reads it.