Home Lab 21 is a simulation that runs in your browser. You do not need an account, and there is no server that stores anything about you. This page explains the one thing we do ask.
We ask first
On your first visit, a small banner asks whether we may use cookies. Nothing that needs your permission runs before you answer. Yes and no are equal choices, and the buttons look the same. If you say no, we take that as your answer and leave you alone.
Nothing breaks if you say no
The simulation does not depend on your answer. Say no and the page works exactly as before. The only thing kept after a no is the banner's own small cookie, which remembers your answer so the question does not come back on every visit.
Why we ask at all
When you say yes, Microsoft Clarity records an anonymous replay of your visit. A replay shows us where people click and where they get stuck. That is the whole reason it exists: when something on the page confuses people, the replays show us where, and then we can fix it. We do not use them to identify you, and we do not sell or share them for advertising.
What runs on the page
Microsoft Clarity records the replays, and only after your yes. It uses two
cookies on this site (_clck and _clsk) to tell one
session from another. Say no and it does not run, and those two cookies are
removed.
Cloudflare Web Analytics counts visits. It uses no cookies and records nothing about you personally, which is why it needs no permission.
The consent cookie (cc_cookie) remembers your answer for
one year. After that year, the banner asks again.
Where you are decides the start
Before you answer, your rough region decides the starting state. We read it from the connection, the same way any website knows roughly where a visitor comes from. If you visit from the EU or one of its neighbours, where the law says ask first, nothing is recorded until you say yes. From anywhere else, recording starts right away and stops the moment you say no. We never ask your browser for your location.
Changing your mind
There is a "Cookie settings" link in the page footer. It reopens the question at any time, and your new answer takes effect right away.