Cookies and storage

Ovi stores only what it needs to work, so it asks for no consent. Nothing here tracks you across sites, and nothing is shared with advertisers. If that ever changes, we will ask first.

Cookies

| Name | Purpose | Lifetime | | ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | | auth_token | Keeps you signed in | 1 hour | | refresh_token | Renews your session without a new login | 30 days | | username | Your nickname, for the page header | 30 days | | user_id | Your account ID, for the pages you open | 30 days | | profile_created | Remembers that you have set up your profile | 1 year | | auth_retry | Stops an endless loop while a session is being recovered | 20 seconds | | restore_token | Lets you restore an account scheduled for deletion, after you log in | 10 minutes | | locale | The language you chose | 1 year | | theme | The light or dark theme you chose | 1 year | | time_zone | Your device's time zone, so times and days show in it | 1 year |

The first seven are readable only by our server and sent only to Ovi. locale, theme and time_zone hold no personal data. time_zone holds no choice of yours either: your browser copies your device's setting into it, and rewrites it when that setting changes.

Browser storage

| Name | Kind | Purpose | | ------- | ------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | | theme | local storage | The theme you chose, applied before the page loads |

Performance monitoring

Ovi measures page performance and errors to keep the service working. It is configured to store nothing in your browser and to send no identifier for you or your visit. When the monitoring script loads, it checks that your browser's storage works by writing a test entry and removing it at once; nothing remains.