MDM Reference • Cookie notice
Cookie Notice
This notice states the position of the Matrix Distribution Math Reference on cookies. The statement is short because the practice is short.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small piece of text that a site asks a reader's browser to keep and to return on a later visit. Cookies serve many ends, from remembering a preference to counting visits. Not every site uses them, and the ends differ from site to site.
Our position
The Matrix Distribution Math Reference is a body of static reading pages. It does not set a cookie of its own, it does not keep a record of a reader between visits, and it does not ask a browser to return any stored text. Reading the reference leaves no mark of this kind behind it.
The static notice
A short line about cookies is placed in the footer of every page, in keeping with common practice and so that no reader is left to wonder. The line is fixed text; it is not produced by any running element, and it stores nothing. Its only purpose is to record the position stated here.
Your browser and its choices
A modern browser allows a reader to see and to clear any stored text, to block it, and to set a preference for a whole site or for all sites. Since the reference sets nothing, these controls will find nothing from this site. A reader who uses the controls of their browser is exercising a choice that the reference neither needs nor obstructs.
Other material linked from the reference
The reference links only to its own pages and to its own mailbox. There is no outside material reached from within it, and therefore no outside practice of this kind to disclose. A reader who arrives from elsewhere should consult the notice of whatever site they left.
Questions
A question about this notice may be put to the Compendium Office at the address on the contact page. The desk will answer plainly, and will correct the record if the practice ever changes. Were a cookie ever to be introduced, this notice would be revised first, so that no reader met a change unannounced.
The footer line in plain reading
The short line in the footer is a statement of fact rather than a control. It does not ask the reader to agree to anything, it does not open a panel, and it does not remember a choice, because there is no choice to remember. It sits in the same place on every page so that a reader who wonders about the matter finds the same answer wherever they look.
Why the notice is kept short
A notice should be no longer than the practice it describes. Where a site stores nothing, a long notice would mislead by implication, suggesting that much is kept and much must be managed. This notice states the small truth at the small length it deserves, and it says where to write if the truth ever changes.