Cookies & analytics
Google Analytics is currently switched off while the site is being prepared for launch. The choices below describe how it will work once enabled. Our privacy notice explains who is responsible for your information and how to exercise your rights.
You can use The Sick List without accepting analytics. Rejecting it does not remove any guides, printables or recommendations.
Remembering your choice
We save your accept or reject choice in this browser for up to six months using local storage. This small setting is called tsl-analytics-choice-v1. It stays on your device and is not sent to Google. If you clear your browser storage or use another browser, we may ask again.
Optional Google Analytics
If you accept, we use Google Analytics to count visits to broad site sections, broad referral sources such as search engines, PDF opens and clicks to retailers. Individual guide, need, situation and printable paths are grouped; PDF filenames are not sent. These clicks do not tell us whether someone read a whole guide or bought anything.
Google Analytics uses cookies called _ga and _ga_BJ40HRQBZR to distinguish browsers and visits. We configure these to last up to six months. Measurement can include cookie identifiers, browser and device information and approximate location. This is not completely anonymous data. Google processes the information to provide the reports, and processing can take place outside the UK.
Our measurement does not send the words you type into search, URL query strings, names or contact details. We do not use analytics for personalised advertising. Google Analytics is not loaded before you accept, or when you reject it.
See Google’s privacy policy for information about its processing.
Changing your mind
Use Cookie settings at the bottom of any page. Rejecting after accepting stops our analytics collection and removes our Google Analytics cookies from this browser. It does not erase information already collected.
Other services and retailer links
The website’s hosting service receives technical information needed to deliver and secure the site. Fonts and some product images load from external services, which receive requests from your browser. The analytics choice controls Google Analytics, not those ordinary page requests.
Retailer and affiliate links take you to another service. That service has its own privacy and cookie rules; your choice here does not control its cookies.