Last updated: 15 September 2026
This page explains what cookies Gather Dinners uses, what each category is for, and how to refuse or remove them. It sits alongside the privacy policy, which covers everything else we handle.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a site asks your browser to store, so that something can be remembered between one page and the next. Similar technologies, such as local storage and pixels, do comparable jobs and are covered by this page too. A cookie cannot read other files on your device or run a program.
The categories used here
Strictly necessary
These make the site work and cannot be switched off. They keep the page cache consistent, protect forms against abuse, remember your cookie choice so you are not asked on every page, and keep you signed in if you have an account here. Nothing in this category is used to profile you.
Preferences
These remember a choice you made, such as a setting you changed while reading. They are not used for advertising and the site works without them.
Analytics
These report, in aggregate, which pages are opened, how readers arrive, and where they leave. We use this to decide which recipes to improve. The reports describe groups of visits, not named people.
Advertising
Where advertising is served, these are set by the advertising partner and its vendors to select what you see, to limit how often the same ad is repeated, and to measure whether an ad worked. They may involve identifiers shared with those vendors. This is the category most people want to refuse, and refusing it does not remove ads, it only makes them less targeted.
How to control them
The consent banner appears on your first visit and lets you accept or refuse the non-essential categories. You can reopen it at any time from the cookie link in the footer and change your answer; the new choice takes effect immediately for future page loads.
Your browser also gives you full control independently of this site. Every major browser can block cookies outright, block only third-party cookies, or delete everything already stored, usually under Settings, then Privacy. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may leave parts of the site behaving oddly, such as the consent banner reappearing on every page, because the record of your choice is itself a cookie.
For advertising specifically, the industry opt-out pages at optout.aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.eu let you opt out across many vendors at once.
Cookies we do not control
Embedded content, such as a video player or a social post shown inside a page, is delivered by the other site and can set its own cookies as if you had gone there yourself. We cannot switch those off on your behalf; refusing them means not loading that embedded content, or using your browser settings to block third-party cookies.
Changes
The set of cookies in use changes when a tool is added or removed. When it does, the date at the top of this page is updated and the categories above are revised to match.