Our Cookie Policy — Explained Simply
We translate CPAP manuals into plain English, so it would be a little embarrassing if our cookie policy read like a legal textbook. Here's what cookies are, which ones this site uses, and how to clear them. No jargon, promise.
Cookies, in everyday language
Last updated: June 10, 2026
You know how a good pharmacist remembers your name and what you picked up last time, so you don't have to repeat your whole story at every visit? A cookie does the same job for a website. It's a tiny text file (just a few lines of letters and numbers — not a program, and not able to look at anything else on your device) that this site asks your browser to hold onto. The next time you visit metasimpletons.com, your browser hands it back, and the site remembers a little bit about your last visit.
That's the whole trick. Cookies can't read your files, can't install anything, and can't watch what you do on other websites unless they were put there by those websites. The ones we use are listed below — all of them, in plain English.
The cookies this site sets, and why
1. Cookies that keep the site working ("essential" cookies). These are the load-bearing ones. They do unglamorous housekeeping — remembering that you dismissed a pop-up so it doesn't nag you twice, keeping a page request connected to the right server (a "session," which is just the website's word for one continuous visit), and basic security checks (a CSRF token, which is a one-time pass code that proves a form was really submitted by you and not by a sneaky third-party page). The site genuinely doesn't function properly without these, which is why privacy laws everywhere allow them without asking first. They expire on their own — most when you close your browser.
2. Cookies that remember your preferences ("functional" cookies). If you make a choice on this site — like closing our newsletter invitation — a small cookie remembers it so we don't keep asking. Think of it as a sticky note that says "already offered, don't pester." These typically last a few weeks to a year, then quietly expire.
3. Cookies that count visitors ("analytics" cookies). These help us answer simple editorial questions: which guides people actually read, where readers get stuck, and whether anyone makes it to the end of our patient-lift manual. The counting is aggregate (lumped together — "4,000 people read the CPAP guide this month"), not a dossier on you personally. We use this to decide what to explain next, nothing more.
4. What we don't do. We don't sell ad space to data brokers, we don't run third-party advertising trackers that follow you around the internet, and we don't trade your reading habits to anyone. You're here to figure out a hoyer lift sling, not to be a product.
Cookies set by services we use
A few things on this site are delivered by outside services — for example, the network that serves our pages quickly (a CDN, short for "content delivery network" — picture a chain of local warehouses so a page ships from the one nearest you). Those services may set their own technical cookies to do their jobs, such as telling real visitors apart from automated bots. They're functional plumbing, not surveillance, but we name them here because a good policy hides nothing.
How to see and clear your cookies
Every browser lets you inspect, block, or delete cookies. It's genuinely a two-minute job — here's where the switch lives in each one:
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies (and "See all site data" to delete ours specifically).
- Safari (Mac, iPhone, iPad): Settings → Safari → Advanced → Website Data — or "Clear History and Website Data" for the full sweep.
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data → Manage Data.
- Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data.
Two honest warnings, the way we'd give them about any device: clearing cookies signs you out of sites everywhere (have your passwords handy), and blocking all cookies will make many websites — including parts of this one — behave oddly, like a glucometer with the batteries in backwards. Blocking just third-party cookies is the gentler middle setting most people want.
"Do Not Track" and Global Privacy Control
Some browsers can send a signal asking sites not to track you (Do Not Track, or its newer cousin Global Privacy Control). Since we don't run cross-site tracking in the first place, honoring that signal is easy: there's nothing extra to switch off. We treat every visitor as if the signal were on.
If we change this policy
If we ever add a new kind of cookie, we'll update this page and change the "last updated" date at the top — the same way a good manual notes its revision date. We won't bury a meaningful change in a footnote.
Questions?
If anything on this page still reads as fog, that's on us, not you — it means we explained it badly. Tell us through our contact page and we'll rewrite it until it's clear. That's sort of our whole thing.