Cookie policy & preferences

This policy lists the cookies, local storage, IndexedDB, and cache storage used by the service as shipped. It is general information, not legal advice for your own site.

Where you are changes when things run

If you appear to be in the EU, the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, nothing non-essential runs until you choose: analytics and advertising both start switched off and a consent banner asks first. Everywhere else, analytics and advertising start switched on and a notice tells you so — you can switch them off in one click, here or from that notice, and the choice is remembered.

We work out which applies from your browser’s timezone setting. That keeps the check entirely on your device: we do not look your IP address up against a location service, and no request leaves your browser to make this decision. It is an approximation — a VPN or a manually-set timezone will change the answer — so if you would rather be treated as opt-in wherever you are, switch both categories off below and we will remember it.

If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, we treat that as switching both categories off, regardless of where you appear to be.

What we use

• Essential — first-party storage remembers your theme, consent choice, optional local drafts, selected assets, test collection, and page-feedback choice. These records stay on this device and are never used for advertising. Consent and theme are required for the chosen experience; other records are created only when you use the feature. When you install or visit the site as a Progressive Web App, the browser may also keep a small offline app-shell cache (pages like home and help) via the site service worker — this is ordinary browser HTTP caching, not a tracker, and it never caches downloads, ads, or analytics scripts.
• Analytics — Google Analytics 4. While this category is off it runs in Consent Mode with no cookies; while it is on, it sets standard GA cookies (such as _ga and _ga_*) to measure usage. You can switch it off here at any time.
• Advertising — Adsterra display, native, and export Smartlink ads. Scripts are blocked until opt-in where prior consent is required and start enabled under an opt-out notice elsewhere. A consented download or export may open the Adsterra Smartlink in a separate tab; the file action never depends on it. Legal, consent, security, and accessibility pages carry no ad code. You can switch Advertising off here at any time; the page reloads when necessary to remove an already-injected unit.

Cookies & storage we may set

Essential first-party storage is available to the relevant feature; analytics and advertising entries appear only while the matching category is on. Adsterra may set additional advertising cookies under names and retention periods it controls.

See the privacy policy for the bigger picture, and the terms of use.