1. What we checked
This is a measured statement rather than an intention, and it is checked automatically on every deployment. Loading the homepage and the service pages in a clean browser profile, and using the buttons on them, leaves:
- an empty cookie jar, and an empty document.cookie
- an empty localStorage and an empty sessionStorage
- no request to any host other than this site’s own domain; the only requests that are not for the page itself are the analytics script from /_vercel/insights/ and its reports to the analytics path Vercel assigns to the project, both on this domain
- and, in a second run with /_vercel/insights/ blocked, no analytics script and no report to any analytics path
2. Why there is nothing to set
The site is static. It has no login to remember, no cart to keep and no language preference stored on your device; the language lives in the address. Its analytics (Vercel Web Analytics, described in the Privacy Policy) needs nothing on your device either: according to Vercel, a visit is recognised for a day from a hash computed on Vercel's servers and then discarded. What we check ourselves, on every deployment, is that the browser side stays empty. The fonts and the icon font are served from this domain rather than from a font provider, so no third party is contacted while you read.
3. What happens when you leave the site
The contact buttons take you to WhatsApp, and the WeChat card shows a QR code you scan with the WeChat app. Once you are there you are on their service, and WhatsApp and WeChat set their own cookies and identifiers under their own policies. That is outside our control and outside this policy.
The Ask-AI buttons at the bottom of some pages open ChatGPT, Perplexity or Claude in a new tab with this page's address in a prompt; nothing else about you is passed on. Those sites set their own cookies under their own policies, outside this one.
4. If this changes
Embedding a video, adding a chat widget, or wiring a real contact form would each mean cookies or storage. If any of that happens, a consent banner appears before anything non-essential is set, and this page is rewritten to list exactly what is used and why. The date below tells you when it last changed.
5. Questions
Write to hello@e-expat.com.
Last updated: 3 October 2026. Questions about this page: get in touch.
