Legal
Cookie notice
The smallest possible storage note, written honestly: one preference entry in your own browser, and nothing else.
The honest legal position first
Taiwan has no dedicated cookie statute. There is no Taiwanese act that orders publishers to raise a cookie banner, and this notice does not claim one exists. The banner you saw on arrival is the journal’s own practice, kept deliberately small, because a site that writes about data pipelines should not be a bad example of one.
What cookies and browser storage are
Cookies are small strings a website can place in your browser; modern sites also use related mechanisms such as localStorage, where a page stores a small name-and-value entry on your own device. Both can persist between visits, which is what makes them useful — and worth disclosing.
What this site actually stores
The complete inventory, in one table:
| Item | Kind | Purpose | Duration | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
eij-consent-v1 | localStorage entry | Remembers your cookie-notice choice (“accepted” or “rejected”) so the banner does not appear on every visit | Until you change it or clear the site’s data; the entry sets no expiry | This site (echo-console.digital), via its own script |
That is the whole list. No HTTP cookies are set at all — not session counters, not preference tokens, not advertising identifiers. Whenever you refuse and return, the banner will show again only because the entry is missing, not because a tracker noticed you.
No analytics, no third parties
The site runs no analytics and no third-party tracking, now or later — no Google Analytics, no ad pixels, no measurement beacons, no social embeds. Fonts and scripts are downloaded from this domain rather than a vendor’s CDN, so loading a page makes no requests to anyone else. The entry in the table above exists to keep the banner quiet, nothing more.
Changing or withdrawing your choice
The footer of every page carries a Cookie settings control. It re-opens the banner so you can record a different choice, overwriting the previous one. To wipe the entry entirely, use your browser’s site-data controls — clearing “site data” or “local storage” for echo-console.digital removes it; the banner then reappears on your next visit.
What refusing costs you
Nothing that matters. Rejecting stores the same refusal and hides the banner; every page, article, link and the inquiry form work in exactly the same way. The difference between accepting and rejecting is a single entry in your browser — which is the point of the exercise.
Related reading
The privacy policy covers the other side of browser storage: what the inquiry form collects, where it goes, and the Taiwan PDPA frame the journal works under.