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This page says what casestudynotes stores about the people who read it. It is short because there is very little to say. Reading needs no account. There is no analytics. There is one cookie, and it does one job. An account, if you make one, stores your email address and the work you save.

Last updated 25 August 2026

A reader can open a set number of cards for free in any 30 days. To count them, the site has to remember which ones have already been opened. That is what the cookie is for, and it is the only thing it is for. Opening the same card again never counts twice, so revising from one already opened costs nothing.

Name

csn_meter

Who sets it

casestudynotes, on its own site. It is a first-party cookie. No other company sets a cookie here.

What it holds

A short list of the cards opened, written as the name each one has in its web address, and the day each one was first opened. Nothing else.

How long it lasts

30 days. Each entry drops out once it is 30 days old, so the count always covers a rolling 30 days.

The cookie is not used to build a profile. It is not shared with anyone. It is not used for advertising, and it is not sold. It holds no name, no age and no identity number of any kind. The site does not fingerprint devices, which means it does not read screen size, fonts, graphics card or any other detail in order to work out who a reader is. It cannot follow anyone to another website, and it does not try.

Clearing the count

The count lives in the browser, so it can be deleted at any time. Open the browser settings, find the privacy or history section, and choose to clear cookies and site data. The count goes back to zero and the site works exactly as it did before. Nothing is kept on a server that would put it back.

Blocking cookies for this site works too. The rest of the site stays open: the map, the timeline, the archive, every edition and all the evidence behind every card are free for everyone, whatever the cookie says.

What the site does not collect

This list is the useful half of a privacy notice, so it comes before anything else.

Personal details

No name, no date of birth, no phone number, no school, no year group. An account stores an email address and nothing else. See below.

Passwords

There is no password on this site. Nothing to forget, nothing to leak and nothing to reset.

Location

A reader’s location is never asked for and never stored. The map on this site shows where events happened, not where anyone is.

Analytics

No analytics service runs on this site. No page-view tracking, no heatmaps, no session recording.

Advertising

No advert trackers, no advertising pixels and no advert network code.

Cross-site tracking

Nothing here follows a reader to other websites, and nothing tells other websites what was read here.

If you make an account

An account is optional. The map, the timeline, the archive, every edition and all the evidence and sources stay open without one. An account adds a bank of saved cards, a coverage sheet against your specification, and a higher monthly reading limit.

What is stored

Your email address, so you can sign back in. What you save, so your bank is there next time. Which specification you chose, so coverage can be counted. Which editions you have opened, so the streak can be worked out. That is the whole list.

How you sign in

With Google, or with a link we email you. There is no password. If you use Google we are told your email address and nothing else: no contacts, no calendar, no profile.

Who sends the email

Your notes are private

Notes you write on a saved card are yours. They are never shown to a teacher, and a teacher can never see what you practise or read.

If you join a class

Your teacher sees your display name, class totals on the coverage sheet, and the answers you submit to assignments, and nothing else. Your recall practice, your saved cards, your notes and your reading stay private, and the exact lists are shown before you join and on your class page. You can leave a class yourself at any time.

No marketing

Making an account does not sign you up to anything. There is no newsletter box, ticked or unticked, because bundling one into sign up would be a dark pattern.

Deleting it

Ask and the account and everything in it is deleted. Contact details are added here before launch.

Who this site is for

casestudynotes is built for students aged 13 to 18 studying geography or politics, and for the teachers who work with them. Because most readers are children, the site follows the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, which sets out how services used by under-18s should treat them.

In practice that means four things, and they are design rules rather than promises.

High privacy by default

The private setting is the only setting. There is no switch to turn privacy on, because nothing is collected that would need one.

No behavioural profiling

What a reader opens is never used to work out who they are, guess their interests, or change what they are shown. The count is a number, not a picture of a person.

No nudges for more data

The site never asks for a detail it does not need, and never offers a reward for handing one over.

No dark patterns

Every prompt on this site is calm, factual and easy to skip. Nothing is ticked in advance. There are no countdowns, no pop-ups over the page, and no language designed to worry anyone into a decision. Declining is always as easy as agreeing.

What we say about mark schemes

Where casestudynotes says what an examiner rewards at a given tariff, in the guidance above a recall question, in the marking of an answer, or in a model answer, that is our reading of the board's published mark schemes and examiner reports. It is researched against the real documents and it is not the board's own statement, and specifications change. Your teacher and the board's current published materials are the authority.

casestudynotes is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by AQA, Pearson Edexcel, or Cambridge International, and nothing on the site is a board’s own material. Specification content is paraphrased rather than reproduced, because the wording of a specification belongs to the board that wrote it.

What changes later

casestudynotes is being built in stages. Later stages add accounts, so work can be saved, and payments, so a subscription can be bought. Both would collect real information: an email address for an account, and card details handled by a payment company for a subscription.

None of that exists today, and none of it is collected today. This notice will be rewritten and published before any of it starts collecting anything, and it will name what is collected, why, how long it is kept and who processes it. The date at the top of this page shows when it last changed.

Questions about this notice

casestudynotes has not launched yet, so there is no contact address to print here. Contact details are added to this page before launch. Making one up now would be worse than leaving the space honestly empty.

In the meantime, the two pages worth reading are the archive and today’s edition, both free and both free of any of this.