Cookie Policy

What Is a Cookie, Briefly

A cookie is a small piece of text a website asks your browser to store and send back on future visits, often used to keep you signed in or to track behavior across sites for advertising. Cookies come in a few flavors: session cookies (deleted when you close your browser), persistent cookies (stored for a set period), first-party cookies (set by the site you are visiting), and third-party cookies (set by an embedded advertiser or tracker, often used to follow you across unrelated websites). This site does not need any of these categories to function, because there is no login, no shopping cart, and no ad network to support.

The One Thing This Site Stores: Your Theme Preference

The only piece of information this site saves on your device is your light/dark theme choice, and technically it is not even a cookie - it is stored using your browser's localStorage feature, a different (and more private-by-default) mechanism than cookies. Unlike a cookie, localStorage is never automatically sent to our server with every request; it simply sits in your browser so the site can remember which theme you picked the next time you visit. It contains no personal information, no identifier tied to you, and nothing that could be used to track you across other websites.

Cloudflare Web Analytics: Cookieless by Design

For basic traffic insight (which pages are visited, roughly how much traffic the site gets, and which sites refer visitors), we use Cloudflare Web Analytics. It is specifically built to avoid the privacy problems of traditional analytics: it does not use cookies, does not fingerprint your device, and does not build a persistent profile of you across visits. Measurement happens in aggregate, at the network edge, rather than through a tracking script that follows you around the web. See our privacy policy for the full explanation of what this analytics tool does and does not report.

Cookies We Do Not Use

To be explicit about what is absent:

• No advertising or retargeting cookies - there are no ad networks on this site
• No social media tracking pixels or embedded "Like" buttons that set third-party cookies
• No cross-site tracking cookies of any kind
• No session cookies for login, because there is no account system to log into
• No analytics cookies - our analytics provider is cookieless by design, as explained above

How to Clear or Block Local Storage, by Browser

Even though the only stored value is a harmless theme preference, you are always free to clear it. Since it is browser-specific and not a cookie shared across sites, here is how to clear site data (including localStorage) in the major browsers:

• Chrome: open Settings, then Privacy and security, then Site settings, find charadesgenerator.xyz, and choose Clear data
• Firefox: open Settings, then Privacy & Security, scroll to Cookies and Site Data, click Manage Data, search for charadesgenerator.xyz, and remove it
• Safari: open Settings (macOS: Safari, then Settings), go to Privacy, click Manage Website Data, search for charadesgenerator.xyz, and remove it
• Edge: open Settings, then Cookies and site permissions, then Manage and delete cookies and site data, find charadesgenerator.xyz, and remove it

Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" setting. Because this site does not use tracking cookies or cross-site tracking of any kind regardless of that setting, enabling or disabling Do Not Track has no practical effect on your experience here - there is nothing extra to turn off.

localStorage vs. Cookies: Why the Distinction Matters

It is worth explaining why we keep pointing out that the theme preference is localStorage rather than a cookie, instead of treating the two as interchangeable. A cookie is automatically attached to every request your browser sends to a site, including background image and script requests, which is exactly the mechanism that makes cross-site advertising cookies possible. localStorage, by contrast, is never sent over the network on its own - a page has to deliberately read it with JavaScript, and it never travels to any other domain, ever. That structural difference is a big part of why a theme-preference feature does not require the same privacy scrutiny as an advertising cookie: there is no network transmission for anyone to intercept, log, or aggregate.

Mobile Browsers and Private/Incognito Mode

Everything above applies the same way on mobile Safari, Chrome for Android, and other mobile browsers - the theme preference is stored locally on that specific device and browser, and does not sync to your other devices unless your browser itself syncs local site data as part of a signed-in browser profile (a feature controlled by your browser, not by this site). If you browse in a private or incognito window, the theme preference (and everything else about your visit) is discarded the moment you close that window, exactly as your browser's private-mode design intends.

If This Ever Changes

If a future feature genuinely required a cookie (for example, a saved custom word list tied to a returning visitor), this page would be updated first, with a clear, specific explanation of what the new cookie does, how long it lasts, and how to opt out - before it shipped, not after. See our terms of service for how policy updates in general are communicated on this site.

Contact

Questions about this cookie policy can be sent to contact@charadesgenerator.xyz.