Policy · updated
Cookies
There are none. That is the whole policy, and this page exists mainly to show you how to check it rather than take my word for it.
- Strictly necessary
- 0
- Functional
- 0
- Analytics
- 0
- Advertising
- 0
Do not take my word for it
Every site claims to respect your privacy, so a claim is not worth much. This one is checkable in about fifteen seconds, and you should check it.
In Chrome or Edge, press F12, open the Application tab, and choose Cookies in the left-hand list. In Firefox, press F12 and look under Storage. In Safari, enable the Develop menu and use the Storage tab. Whichever you use, the list for this site is empty.
While you are in there, the Network tab is worth a look too. Every request a page here makes is to this site: the page, the stylesheet, the favicon, and any images. Nothing goes to an analytics service, an ad network or a font host, because none of them are on the page.
What is there instead
A handful of local storage entries, and only if you have used a setting that needs one. They hold your reading preferences and anything you have made in Hum. They are not cookies: they are never attached to a request, so they are never sent to a server, and no other site can read them.
| Key | Where | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
dm.text |
dmooney.engineer | Larger text, if you turn it on in the reading controls. |
dm.contrast |
dmooney.engineer | Higher contrast, if you turn it on. |
hum.feelings |
hum.dmooney.engineer | Any custom feelings you make in Hum, so they survive a reload. |
hum.reference-seen |
hum.dmooney.engineer | Whether you have seen the reference, so it stops opening itself. |
To clear them, clear site data for this site in your browser settings, or delete the entries directly in the same developer tools panel you used to check the cookies.
Why this page exists at all
Cookie policies are normally written to cover tracking that is already happening. This one exists because "we do not track you" is a claim like any other, and the useful version of that claim comes with instructions for testing it.
If that ever changes, and something here does need a cookie, you will get a real choice about it rather than a banner with one obvious button.