Cookie Policy

The short version

We set no cookies of our own. The only cookies that can reach your browser here come from Google, which serves the ads that pay for the site. You can turn those off, and nothing on this site breaks when you do — every page and the search box work fine without cookies.

What a cookie is

A cookie is a small text file a site asks your browser to store and hand back on later visits. Similar technologies — web beacons, pixels, local storage, device identifiers — do comparable jobs, and everything on this page applies to them too.

Cookies we set: none

StillGood? is a static site. The pages are pre-built files with no database behind them and no server-side sessions, so there is no login state, preference, or cart for a cookie to hold. We do not set first-party cookies for any purpose, including analytics.

The search box is worth calling out: the food index is downloaded to your device and matched locally as you type. Your queries are never sent to us or stored anywhere. What you look up here stays on your machine.

Advertising cookies (Google)

This site displays ads served by Google AdSense. Google and its partner vendors use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure those ads. Broadly they fall into three jobs:

Ad serving and frequency. Deciding which ad to show and avoiding showing you the same one repeatedly.
Personalization. Selecting ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. This is the category most people mean by "tracking," and it is the one you can switch off outright.
Measurement and fraud prevention. Counting impressions and clicks and filtering out invalid traffic.

These cookies are set by Google, not by us. We never receive them, cannot read them, and have no access to whatever profile they contribute to. Google's own description of what it collects and why is at How Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Analytics: cookieless

We use Vercel Web Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights to see which pages get read and whether the site loads quickly. Both are cookieless by design: they set no cookies, do not fingerprint your device, and do not follow you to other sites. They report aggregate counts — page views, referrers, country, browser, load timings — with no profile attached to you as an individual.

Consent in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland

Where local law requires consent before advertising cookies are set, Google's consent mechanism requests it in your region before serving personalized ads, in line with its obligations to publishers under the EU user consent policy. You can decline, and you can change your mind later through the controls below.

How to turn them off

Personalized ads from Google: switch off at Google Ads Settings. You will still see ads; they just stop being based on your browsing.
Many vendors at once: aboutads.info/choices and optout.networkadvertising.org.
Your browser: every major browser can block or delete cookies, and most can block third-party cookies specifically while leaving the rest of the web working. Look under Privacy settings in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge.
Global Privacy Control: if your browser or extension sends a GPC signal, we honor it as an opt-out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information under California law.
An ad blocker will also stop these cookies. We would rather you allowlist us so the site stays funded, but we are not going to nag you about it or block your reading if you do not.

Changes to this policy

If we add a service that sets cookies, this page changes before it ships and the "last updated" date at the top moves. We will not quietly add tracking.

See our privacy policy for the wider picture of what is collected and your rights under GDPR and CCPA/CPRA, and our terms of use for the terms that govern the site.