Cookies
Cookies, and the two things that are not.
The short version
This website sets no cookies for its visitors. It keeps two small things in your browser’s own storage — your answer to the cookie dialog, and, if you allow it, which theme you chose — and it counts page views on its own server without putting anything on your device. There is one cookie anywhere on the site, and it is the owner’s own sign-in to the page where those counts are read; no visitor receives it. Nothing here is from another company, and nothing follows you between sites.
Cookies and local storage
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep and to send back with every later request. It is how a site remembers you between visits — and, when many sites share one, how you are followed across them. Local storage is a space in your browser that belongs to one site alone: the site can read and write it while you are on the page, but it is never sent to any server on its own, and you can clear it from your browser’s settings at any time. Both are covered by the same rules, which is why both are listed here.
Everything this site keeps
| Name | What it is | What it is for | How long | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
torvex-consent |
Local storage | Your answer to the cookie dialog, so it is not asked on every visit. Holds the answer and the time you gave it. | Until you clear your browser, or change the answer | Necessary |
torvex-theme |
Local storage | Which theme you chose with the switch in the bar, so the page opens the way you left it. Written only while Preferences is allowed; without it the switch still works, for the visit. | Until you clear your browser, or deny Preferences | Preferences |
| The page-view count | Nothing on your device | One row on the site’s own server per page view: the day, the page, the site you came from, a rough screen size, and a visitor key — a hash of your address and browser, salted with a value made fresh each day and destroyed the next. Tells two visitors apart within a day and nobody across days. | Rows two years; the key is meaningless after the day it was made | Statistics |
torvex_owner |
Cookie, on /stats/ only |
The owner’s sign-in to the private page where the counts are read. Set only after the owner enters a password; no visitor is ever sent it. | 30 days | Necessary, for one person |
There is nothing in the Marketing category: no advertising, no pixels, no social buttons, nothing shared with anyone.
Your choices
- The dialog. It asks once. Deny keeps only your answer; Allow all also keeps your theme; Customize lets you choose. Cookie settings, at the foot of every page, opens it again with your current answer shown.
- Not being counted. A browser that sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track is not counted at all — the page never sends the count, and the server refuses it a second time if it arrives anyway. Both are switches in your browser’s privacy settings, or in an extension.
- Clearing it. Both local-storage items are removed when you clear site data for torvexapp.app in your browser — in Safari under Settings › Privacy › Manage Website Data, in Chrome and Firefox from the padlock or the site information panel next to the address. The dialog will then ask again.
Changes
If anything that stores on your device is ever added, it gets a row in the table above, a category with a switch in the dialog, and a new date at the top of this page. Nothing is added quietly.
Getting in touch
privacy@torvexapp.app. The privacy policy covers the app and the rest of the site.