Privacy and cookies
What this site stores on your device, what it counts, and how to change your mind.
The short version
The site works fully without optional cookies. Nothing for analytics is set until you choose “Allow analytics”, and “Don’t allow” is remembered.
Two things are counted without identifying anyone: page views (a daily total) and online now (pages that have been open in the last minute or so, using a random value that exists only in the page’s memory and is never stored on your device). Crawlers are ignored. For the first page of a visit, only a category of where the visitor came from is counted (an AI assistant, a search engine, a social site, another website, or direct), never the address of the page they came from.
If you allow analytics, one random cookie is used to count unique visitors. IP addresses and browser details are not stored. If you later choose “Don’t allow”, the cookie is deleted and its record is removed from the server.
What is stored
| Name | Kind | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| at_consent | Necessary | Remembers your cookie choice so you are not asked on every page. | 6 months |
| at_vid | Analytics (only if you allow) | A random value that lets the site count unique visitors. It holds no name, email or IP address. | 1 year |
| at_access, at_refresh | Necessary (admin only) | Keep the site owner signed in to the admin panel. Visitors never receive them. | Minutes to 7 days |
| reading:v1 (local storage) | Necessary (you asked for it) | Your read and saved notes, if you use “Mark as read” or “Save for later”. It never leaves your browser. | Until you clear it |
| roadmap:* (local storage) | Necessary (you asked for it) | Which roadmap stages you ticked off. It never leaves your browser. | Until you clear it |
Other things to know
If you subscribe to the newsletter, your email address is stored to send you updates; every email has an unsubscribe link. Embedded YouTube videos load only after you press play, from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced domain.
Questions or a request to remove data: akshay@akshaythakare.com.