Cookies
Last updated 25 October 2026. Checked against the live site that day.
The short version: no cookies of our own, no analytics, no ads. Two notes in your browser so the site remembers your choices, and maps that load only with your permission.
Your choice
When you first visit, a banner asks before anything non-essential loads. Until you choose, nothing does. Your choice lasts six months, then we ask again. Change it at any time with , also in the footer of every page.
Essential
Always on. These are stored in your browser by offscreen-irl.com, never sent to us, and used only to make the site work as you asked.
- offscreen_consent
- Provideroffscreen-irl.com, browser local storage
- PurposeRemembers your cookie choice, so the banner doesn’t return on every page.
- DurationSix months
- offscreen_signup
- Provideroffscreen-irl.com, browser local storage
- PurposeRemembers whether the Friday email prompt has been shown, closed or used. Once closed or used, it never appears again. If it was only shown, it rests for 14 days.
- DurationUntil you clear your browser data
- offscreen_pv
- Provideroffscreen-irl.com, browser session storage
- PurposeCounts pages seen in this visit, so on phones the Friday email prompt waits until the second page.
- DurationUntil the tab is closed
Maps
Off until you allow them. List pages can show a map of every place. The map itself runs from our own server, but the map tiles come from OpenStreetMap.
- Map tiles
- ProviderOpenStreetMap Foundation, tile.openstreetmap.org (UK)
- PurposeDraws the map. Their servers receive your IP address and the address of our site, as with any web request. They set no cookies. Their privacy policy
- DurationNo storage
Analytics and marketing
None. We don’t use analytics, advertising pixels or tracking of any kind, so there is nothing to switch on.
Other services
- Hosting
- ProviderCloudflare, Inc.
- PurposeServes the site and keeps our email address hidden from spam bots. It sets no cookies on our pages. If that ever changes, this page will say so.
- Newsletter signup
- Providerbeehiiv, Inc. (USA), offscreen-dubai.beehiiv.com
- PurposeWhen you sign up, we send you to beehiiv’s own page with your email filled in. Nothing from beehiiv loads on our site. On its page, beehiiv and its host Cloudflare set their own cookies, such as __cf_bm, which blocks bots and lasts 30 minutes. beehiiv’s privacy policy
- Links out
- ProviderInstagram, venue websites, booking pages, Google Maps
- PurposeThese are plain links. Nothing from them loads until you click, and from then on their own policies apply.
Questions
Write to [email protected]. How we handle your email address is on the privacy page.