Cookie policy
The only cookies used on projectguns.com: none for readers, a Cloudflare security cookie, sign-in cookies for staff, and YouTube's only if you play an embedded video.
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Effective October 20, 2026. This page lists the cookies used on projectguns.com and why.
Visitors
If you are reading the site, ProjectGuns sets no cookies in your browser. We do not use advertising, analytics or tracking cookies, and no third party places such cookies through our pages unless you choose to play an embedded video (see below).
Security cookie from Cloudflare
Cloudflare, which protects and delivers our site, may set a cookie named __cf_bm to tell people apart from automated traffic. It is strictly necessary for security, does not identify you, and expires after 30 minutes.
Staff accounts
People who sign in to edit the site receive cookies that are strictly necessary to keep them signed in securely, including a session cookie and, during sign-in, a short-lived cookie for the two-factor step. They are marked secure and HTTP only, and are not used for anything else.
Embedded videos
Some guides include educational videos hosted on YouTube. A video does not load until you press play. Until then the page shows only a still image, which your browser fetches from YouTube's image server (i.ytimg.com). When you press play, the video loads from youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, and YouTube (Google) may then store information on your device and collect data as described in Google's privacy policy. If you never press play, YouTube sets no cookies through our pages.
Your choices
Because we only use strictly necessary cookies, and YouTube's load only when you press play on a video, we do not show a cookie banner. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings; reading the site will keep working. If we ever add cookies that are not strictly necessary, we will ask for your consent first and update this page.