Cookie policy
No cookies, two storage keys
This site does not set cookies. It keeps your coin balance and play records in local storage on your own device instead, and that is the entire mechanism.
Last updated 11 August 2026
Nothing here is for sale and no payments are processed, so there is no checkout, no cart and none of the cookies those normally bring with them.
01 / The short answer
What a cookie is, and why we skip them
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep and then send back with every subsequent request, which is what makes it useful for logins and useful for tracking. Neither applies here. There is nothing to log in to, and following people around is not something this site does, so no cookie is ever set — not by us, and not by any third party embedded in a page, because nothing is embedded.
What we use instead
Your progress is kept in local storage, a browser feature that holds values on your device and, unlike a cookie, never attaches them to a network request. The site reads those values when a page loads and writes them when your balance changes. Two keys are used, and this is everything in them.
| Key | Purpose | Contents | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
frg.play.v1 |
Keeps your game state between visits so the balance and records survive a page reload. | Coin balance, highest balance reached, date of the last daily top-up, date of your first visit, and per-game tallies. | Never — until you clear it |
frg.notice.v1 |
Remembers that you dismissed the storage notice at the foot of the page. | One short value, nothing more. | Never — until you clear it |
Both are tied to this site's address and cannot be read by any other website. Neither contains an identifier, an advertising ID or anything that could point back to you as a person.
Why there is still a notice bar
Storing something on your device deserves a mention even when it is harmless, so a small bar explains it on your first visit and stays out of the way afterwards. Dismissing it writes the second key above. It is not a consent gate: because no tracking or advertising storage exists, there is nothing to consent to and nothing you can switch off to protect your privacy. If you would rather nothing at all were kept, see the next section.
Playing with nothing stored
The games work perfectly well with storage blocked. Open the site in a private window, or turn off site data for this address, and every game still runs — the balance simply resets to 10,000 each time you arrive, because there is nowhere to write it down. Pages, navigation and rules read exactly the same.
Clearing what is there
- Both keys at once: clear this site's data through your browser's site settings. You return to a fresh 10,000 coins and an empty record sheet.
- Game history only: the button on your records page wipes the per-game tallies and leaves your balance alone.
- Balance only: the reset control on any game screen puts the balance back to 10,000 without touching your records.
Third parties
One outside service is involved: Vercel, which hosts the files and answers the request. It sets no cookie on this site. Everything a page loads — stylesheet, script, illustrations and typefaces — comes from this domain, so no other service is contacted and none has the opportunity to store anything. The privacy policy describes what a web server sees.
Changes
If this site ever begins setting a cookie, this page will name it, explain what it does and how long it lasts, and the date above will change. Advertising and tracking cookies are out of the question — the site has no advertising to serve.
Cookie count
- Strictly necessary
- None.
- Preference
- None.
- Analytics
- None.
- Advertising
- None.
- Local storage keys
- Two, both listed on this page.
Checking for yourself
Any browser's developer tools list stored data for the page you are on. Under storage you will find local storage holding the two keys above and the cookie list empty.
Questions about any of it: hello@fernreelguide.com.