Legal

Cookie
Policy.

Effective May 11, 2026 · Last updated May 11, 2026

Short version: We don't use cookies. We don't use tracking pixels. We don't use any device-fingerprinting or session-replay tools. Our website analytics are cookieless and report only aggregate, non-identifying statistics.

1. About Cookies in General

Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device to remember things between visits — login state, language preference, shopping cart contents, or, commonly, to track you across the web for advertising purposes.

2. We Do Not Use Cookies

This website does not set any cookies on your device. To be specific:

  • No first-party cookies — we don't issue session, preference, or tracking cookies.
  • No third-party advertising cookies — no Meta (Facebook) Pixel, no Google Ads, no DoubleClick, no LinkedIn Insight Tag, no TikTok Pixel.
  • No analytics cookies — we don't run Google Analytics or any cookie-based analytics tool.
  • No session-replay cookies — no Hotjar, no FullStory, no Microsoft Clarity.
  • No social-share trackers — share buttons on this site are simple links, not embedded widgets that load tracking scripts.

3. Cookieless Analytics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is completely cookieless and privacy-preserving. It captures aggregate, anonymous metrics — total pageviews, top pages, top referrer domains, country-level visit data, and page-load timing — without:

  • Setting any cookies on your device;
  • Using browser fingerprinting;
  • Storing personal identifiers;
  • Tracking you across other websites;
  • Building any visitor profile.

Cloudflare's Web Analytics product is engineered specifically to deliver website statistics without identifying individual visitors. Read more about it here.

4. About Your Browser's Behavior

Your browser may temporarily store some standard, technically necessary data while you visit our pages — for example, a cached copy of a page to make it faster to revisit, or a record in your browser's history. These are normal browser behaviors, not cookies set by us, and you control them through your browser settings.

5. About Embedded Third-Party Content

This site does not embed third-party widgets that set cookies (no YouTube embeds, no Twitter timelines, no Facebook plugins, no Instagram embeds). All videos on this site are hosted directly from our domain.

If you click an outbound link from this site to another website (for example, a DIELINE editorial article at thedieline.com or a winner's studio website), that destination site has its own cookie practices, which we don't control.

6. Form Submission

When you submit the contact form, our form-processing partner (Formsubmit) processes the submission to deliver it to our inbox. This involves a temporary session interaction, not a tracking cookie. Once the form is submitted, no persistent cookie remains.

7. Do-Not-Track and Global Privacy Control

Because we don't track visitors at all, your Do-Not-Track (DNT) signal and Global Privacy Control (GPC) are honored by default — we don't track anyone regardless of signal.

8. Changes to This Cookie Policy

If we ever add cookies or tracking technologies to this site in the future, we will update this policy and provide a cookie-consent banner before any non-essential cookies are set.

9. Questions

For any questions about our cookie or tracking practices, email awards@dielinemedia.com.