Cookie policy
The short version: Devdwell uses Google Analytics to count page views, and nothing else. It does not load and sets no cookies until you agree. One page is an exception and it is named as one: the contact form is protected by Google reCAPTCHA, which loads with that page and leaves a cookie of its own. There is no advertising and no cross-site tracking either way, and everything below is checkable in your own browser.
Last updated August 2026
What is stored on your device
Four things at most, and none of them is used to follow you to another site. The first is always present and is how the site remembers the choice you made in the notice. The next two are Google Analytics and only exist if you allowed it. The fourth is the spam check on the contact page, and it is the only one here that is not ours, not first-party, and not waiting for your answer. Local storage is not a cookie. It is never transmitted anywhere, it stays in your browser and only this site can read it.
| Key | Where | Set when | Kept for | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
dd-consent | Local storage | Always | Until you clear it | Records the choice you made in the cookie notice, so you are not asked again on every page. Storing a consent decision is itself strictly necessary, which is why it needs no consent of its own. |
_ga | Cookie, first-party | Only if you allow analytics | 2 years | Google Analytics. Holds a random identifier so a returning browser is not counted as a new one. It is not linked to your name, your email or anything you have sent us, and it is never read by another site. |
_ga_5P6YQVT0SY | Cookie, first-party | Only if you allow analytics | 2 years | Google Analytics. Keeps the state of the current visit, where it started and how long it has run, for this property specifically. |
_GRECAPTCHA | Cookie, third-party, set on google.com | On the contact page, as it loads | 6 months | Google reCAPTCHA, which is the spam check on the enquiry form. It is set as the contact page loads rather than when you press send, so it is there before you have answered the notice. It is not set on any other page, and no cookie belonging to devdwell.com is set alongside it. |
Cookies
Two are ours, both from Google Analytics, and neither is set until you say yes. A third belongs to Google reCAPTCHA and is described above. The claim worth testing is the one about this domain: open your browser's developer tools before answering the notice, look under Application → Cookies, and the list for devdwell.com will be empty on every page, the contact page included. Answer "Reject non-essential" and it stays empty; the analytics script is never even requested. The reCAPTCHA cookie is filed undergoogle.com rather than under us, which is a fact about where it lives and not a way of not counting it.
There is no advertising or remarketing tag of any kind: no Meta Pixel, no LinkedIn Insight, no Google Ads tag, no Hotjar or session recording. The one measurement tag we do run is configured for counting page views, not for building advertising audiences, and Google's advertising and personalisation permissions are set to denied whether or not you accept.
If you accept and then change your mind, the two cookies are deleted the moment you reject, withdrawing actually withdraws rather than simply stopping the next one.
Third parties
Before you answer the notice, loading a page here contacts no one but us, with one exception named in the next paragraph. The site, its fonts and its images are all served from devdwell.com, so on every other page no other company sees your IP address in the course of a normal visit. Each thing that changes that is named below, with what triggers it.
The exception is the contact page, and it is the only one. Its enquiry form is protected byGoogle reCAPTCHA, which loads with the page rather than when you press send and sets a cookie of its own while it works out whether you are a person. So opening that page contacts Google and leaves one cookie behind, before you have agreed to anything. We would rather it did not, and we are telling you instead of hoping you do not look. It is there because a public form with no check on it becomes a spam inbox within days. If you would rather avoid it entirely, writing toinfo@devdwell.com reaches the same place and loads nothing.
If you allow analytics, one more is added: Google, which then receives page views and the technical detail that comes with any web request, approximate region, device, browser and referring site. That transfer only happens after you have agreed to it, and it stops when you withdraw.
One other page type reaches a third party, and it is the point of the page rather than a side effect. Each project page under selected workframes that client's own live website so you can see it running. Loading one contacts that client's domain, and whatever their site loads, exactly as visiting it directly would, so your browser is seen by their host and any cookies belong to them, not to us. Nothing is framed anywhere else on this site.
The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which processes requests on our behalf and keeps short-lived security and availability logs. That is a hosting function, not tracking, and it happens for every site on the internet behind a CDN.
Your control
Change your choice
Use the button below, or the "Cookie settings" link in the footer of any page. You can change it as often as you like, and withdrawing is exactly as easy as agreeing.
Clear what is stored
Clearing site data for
devdwell.comin your browser removes every key and cookie listed above immediately. Rejecting in the notice also deletes the two analytics cookies on the spot.Browser-level controls
Every major browser can block or clear storage per site. Blocking cookies for this domain costs you nothing, the site behaves identically, because none of its features depend on one. You can also opt out of Google Analytics everywhere at once with Google's browser add-on.
Ask us anything
Write to info@devdwell.com and we will answer any question about what is stored, or confirm in writing that nothing is.
If this changes
If we ever add another tag or an embedded third party, this page is updated before it goes live, the date at the top changes, and the consent notice reappears so the choice is made again rather than assumed from a previous visit. Related reading: the privacy policy and theterms of use.
Questions, or a request about your data: get in touch.