Cookies Policy

1. What Are Cookies & Local Storage?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. In addition to HTTP cookies, modern web browsers use Web Storage (localStorage and sessionStorage) to store user interface preferences and session tokens locally within your browser sandbox.

This Cookies Policy explains what storage mechanisms are active on anirone.com and how you can control them.

2. Essential & Functional Storage

These items are strictly necessary to deliver essential site features and remember your explicit preferences:

• anirone_theme: Stored in your browser's localStorage to remember whether you chose dark or light mode, so the site looks the way you left it on your next visit.
• anirone_cookie_consent: Stored in localStorage to remember whether you selected "Accept All" or "Essential Only" in our cookie banner, preventing repetitive prompts.

3. Security & Anti-Spam Protection

On our Contact Page, we utilize Cloudflare Turnstile to verify genuine human interactions and protect our engineering inbox from malicious spam floods and bot attacks.

Turnstile may evaluate non-interactive challenge cookies (such as __cf_bm or clearance tokens) to distinguish legitimate visitors from automated scripts. These security tokens do not track your browsing history across unrelated websites.

4. Google AdSense & Advertising Cookies

We use Google AdSense and authorized third-party ad networks to display non-intrusive advertisements on anirone.com. This advertising revenue supports our independent research and keeps all articles freely readable.

How advertising cookies work on our site:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other sites on the Internet.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partner networks to serve advertisements to you based on your visit to anirone.com and/or other sites across the web.
• These cookies help measure ad performance, prevent repetitive ad impressions, and deliver personalized or contextual advertisements in accordance with Google’s advertising policies.

5. How to Manage & Disable Cookies

You have full control over your cookie settings and can adjust them at any time:

Opting Out of Personalized Advertising:

• Manage Google ad personalization via Google Ads Settings.
• Opt out of interest-based advertising from participating vendors through the Digital Advertising Alliance (AboutAds).
• European users can configure ad preferences via the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (Your Online Choices).
• Learn more about Google's data practices at Google's Partner Privacy Policy.

Browser-Level Cookie Controls: You can also configure your web browser to block or delete cookies entirely:

• Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies.
• Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection / Cookies.
• Apple Safari: Settings → Privacy → Manage Website Data.
• Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies.

6. Other Anirone Platforms

This policy covers anirone.com. Awesome Crate, our browser toolkit at crate.anirone.com, stores its data (diary entries, settings) entirely on your device and describes its own practices in its privacy policy.

7. Questions & Inquiries

If you have questions about how we use cookies and browser storage, please reach our desk at contact@anirone.com.