Cookie Policy
Last updated September 13, 2026.
Short version: Aetherbound itself sets no cookies, and doesn't run any advertising or cross-site tracking. Signing in and our traffic analytics are both handled by third parties, described exactly below. Neither one profiles you across other sites, which is why we still don't show a cookie-consent banner.
What we do store in your browser
One item of our own, via localStorage rather than a cookie. It never leaves your device and isn't sent to us on requests:
| Name | Purpose | Type | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
reduceMotion | Remembers your "reduce motion" accessibility preference between visits | localStorage (not a cookie) | Until you clear site data |
Sign-in (Clerk)
If you sign in, Clerk, our authentication provider, sets its own session cookies on its own domain (clerk.aetherbound.online) to keep you signed in. These are strictly necessary for sign-in to function at all; no consent prompt is required for them under GDPR/ePrivacy (they're not used for advertising or analytics), but we're listing them here rather than burying them under a generic "third-party services" line.
Analytics (Cloudflare Web Analytics)
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to see aggregate traffic (page views, rough visitor counts). It's cookieless by design. Cloudflare doesn't set any cookie or persistent identifier, doesn't fingerprint your device, and can't track you across other sites. That's also why it needs no consent banner: there's no personal data being collected to consent to.
Fonts
Typefaces load from Google Fonts. Google's font-serving CDN doesn't set tracking cookies for font requests, but your browser does make a direct request to fonts.googleapis.com/fonts.gstatic.com to fetch them, which is a normal, unavoidable part of using a hosted font.
Changes
If that ever changes, if a future feature genuinely needs a cookie, this page will say so, with what it's for and how to opt out, before it ships.