LEGAL
COOKIE POLICY
Last updated: 25 August 2026. Cookies and browser storage are small pieces of data a website saves in your browser. Some are needed for the site to work. Others, like analytics, are entirely optional and only used if you allow them.
Necessary storage
Always active. Used to run the site and to remember your own privacy choice. No consent is required for these, and they are not used to track you across sites.
pingdora_consent_v1
- TYPE
- localStorage
- PROVIDER
- PINGDORA (first party)
- PURPOSE
- Stores your privacy choice (analytics on/off) and the time you made it, so the banner does not reappear on every page.
- DURATION
- Until you withdraw consent or clear your browser storage
sidebar_state
- TYPE
- Cookie
- PROVIDER
- PINGDORA (first party)
- PURPOSE
- Remembers whether a collapsible interface panel is open. Only set if you use such a panel; contains no personal data.
- DURATION
- 7 days
Analytics storage
Requires your consent. These are only created after you enable analytics — until then the Google Analytics script is never loaded and no analytics cookies exist. Advertising features, Google Signals and ad personalisation are switched off, and IP addresses are anonymised.
_ga
- TYPE
- Cookie
- PROVIDER
- Google Ireland Limited
- PURPOSE
- Distinguishes browsers so visits can be counted as sessions and returning visits.
- DURATION
- 2 years (default GA4 setting)
_ga_<GA4 property ID>
- TYPE
- Cookie
- PROVIDER
- Google Ireland Limited
- PURPOSE
- Maintains the analytics session state for this specific GA4 property.
- DURATION
- 2 years (default GA4 setting)
PINGDORA AI chat storage
None. The AI chat with persistent memory described on the Universe page is not implemented yet, so it currently uses no cookies, no localStorage, no sessionStorage, no IndexedDB and no user or session identifier. This section will be updated with the real storage mechanisms and durations before the chat launches.
Changing or withdrawing your consent
Open — available here and in the footer of every page — to turn analytics on or off, or to withdraw consent entirely. Withdrawing takes effect immediately: Google Consent Mode is set back to denied and no further analytics data is collected. You can also delete existing cookies through your browser settings.
More detail on how we handle personal data is in our Privacy Policy.