Cookie Policy
Short version: scrollan.app sets no advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. We keep your theme choice in your browser and use Google Analytics 4 to understand, anonymously, what gets read.
1. What we store in your browser
- scrollan-theme (localStorage, not a cookie) — remembers whether you picked light or dark mode. It never leaves your browser and contains nothing about you.
- scrollan-cookie-ok, scrollan-promo-dismissed (localStorage) — remember that you closed our cookie notice and app banner.
- _ga, _ga_5TZKT9B0M6 (cookies, Google Analytics 4) — distinguish visits with a random identifier so we can see aggregate readership (which stories, which languages, from where at country level). Expire after up to 13 months. GA4 does not log full IP addresses. We do not use Google advertising features, remarketing or audience sharing.
That is the complete list. We do not run advertising pixels or fingerprinting scripts.
2. Strictly necessary items set by our infrastructure
Our hosting provider (Vercel) may set strictly necessary, short-lived items required to serve the site securely (for example, load-balancing or security tokens). These are essential for delivery, are not used for advertising, and are outside the "consent" requirements of most cookie laws.
3. Third-party images
Some article images are served from the original publisher's or a photo host's content-delivery network. When your browser fetches such an image, that third party may receive standard request data (your IP address, user agent) and may set its own cookies under its own policy. We do not control this. Images we host ourselves are served from our own storage with no tracking.
4. How to clear or block
You can clear the theme preference (and anything else) at any time via your browser's site-data settings for scrollan.app, and the site will simply revert to light mode. Because we set no tracking cookies, blocking cookies entirely does not break the site.
5. Opting out of analytics
Block cookies for scrollan.app in your browser, browse in private mode, or install Google's Analytics opt-out add-on — the site works fully without analytics.
6. Changes
If we introduce any other cookies, we will update this page first, list every item by name and purpose, and where required by law ask for your consent before setting them.