Last updated: 8 November 2026
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store. It's how sites remember you between pages — logins, shopping baskets, that sort of thing. Related technologies (local storage, pixels, fingerprinting scripts) do similar jobs. UK rules on them come from PECR, which sits alongside UK GDPR.
What GlasPod sets
Nothing. This site sets no cookies at all — no first-party cookies, no local storage, no session storage, no tracking pixels, no analytics, no advertising tags, no social media pixels. The guest form doesn't create a session or a cookie either; it just sends your details and forgets about you.
Because we set nothing that needs permission, there's no cookie banner on this site. That's not an oversight — there's nothing to opt in or out of on our side.
The one thing we don't control: the YouTube player
The homepage has a YouTube video embedded in it, and the Episodes and Guests pages link out to YouTube. The embedded player is served by Google, not by us. When it loads, YouTube may set its own cookies in your browser — typically things like VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE and YSC — and it sees your IP address. Those are Google's cookies under Google's privacy policy, not ours, and we can't read them or switch them off from our end.
We'd rather the player didn't set anything until you pressed play. It's a small site and that change hasn't been made yet, so treat the homepage player as third-party content that loads on arrival. If you'd prefer it didn't, block third-party cookies for this site in your browser settings.
Other requests the site makes
- Google Fonts — the typeface loads from Google's servers, so Google sees your IP address. It doesn't set a cookie for this, but it is a request to a third party.
- Hostinger — our host keeps standard server logs, including IP addresses, for security and to keep the site running. That's a log file, not a cookie in your browser.
How to control cookies yourself
Every browser lets you see, block and delete cookies — usually under Settings, then Privacy or Security. Blocking third-party cookies stops the YouTube player from storing anything, though some embedded video may then refuse to play.
Useful starting points:
- your browser's own privacy settings (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge all have them)
- aboutcookies.org for step-by-step instructions
- Google's privacy controls for anything YouTube has stored
Questions
Email hello@glaspod.co.uk if anything here is unclear. Our privacy notice covers the details you send us through the guest form, and the terms of use cover everything else. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.