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Cookie Policy
On an ordinary visit there are no cookies on this site — none of ours and none from anyone else. This page explains what that means, the one rare security check that can set a cookie, and the single thing the site stores on your device, which is not a cookie at all.
1. The short answer
metasilver.org sets no cookies. Not strictly necessary ones, not functional ones, not analytics or advertising ones. This is why you have not been shown a consent banner: there is nothing to consent to, and a banner asking you to agree to nothing would be theatre. There is one narrow exception, which is a security measure rather than ours and which most visitors will never meet; it is described in section 2 rather than buried.
This holds whether or not a sponsorship slot is being shown. Any advertising here is plain text served from this domain rather than an advertising network, so it sets nothing, requests nothing and measures nothing. Advertising is the usual reason a site needs a cookie banner; serving it this way is the reason this one does not.
You can verify this yourself
Open your browser's developer tools, choose the storage or application panel, and look at the cookie list for this domain. On an ordinary visit it will be empty. This is a claim you do not have to take our word for, which is the kind of claim we prefer to make.
2. Why there are no third-party cookies either
Third-party cookies arrive with third-party content: an embedded video, a hosted font, a social button, an analytics tag, a comment widget, an anti-spam service. This site loads none of those. Every file a page needs — stylesheet, script, icon, image — is served from metasilver.org itself, so showing you a page sends your browser to no other company's domain and gives no other company an opportunity to set anything.
One company is nevertheless involved, and leaving it out of a page about who can observe you here would be the sort of omission this policy exists to avoid. This site is delivered through Cloudflare, a content delivery and security network that sits in front of our server and therefore handles every request you make. What it sees, and why we use it, is set out in section 4 of the privacy policy.
For the purposes of this page, what matters is that it puts nothing in the page and sets no cookie while you read. The single exception is a security challenge: if a request is ever interrupted by one, passing it may set a short-lived cookie recording that it was passed. That is the one circumstance in which a cookie can appear on this domain. It is there to keep automated abuse out, it measures nothing about you, and it is not something we would ask your consent for because it is not something we would use to learn anything.
3. The one thing stored on your device
If you use the light/dark theme switch in the site header, your choice is saved using your browser's local storage, which is a different mechanism from a cookie in the one way that matters most: it is never attached to a request and never sent to a server.
| Property | Detail |
|---|---|
| Mechanism | Browser local storage, not a cookie |
| Name | site-theme |
| Value | Either light or dark |
| Set when | Only if you use the theme switch. If you never touch it, nothing is stored. |
| Purpose | Remembering which theme you chose, so the site opens the way you left it |
| Sent to us? | No. It is not transmitted anywhere, and we cannot read it. |
| Expires | It does not. It stays until you clear your browser's site data. |
| Shared? | With no one |
Because this stores nothing about you, identifies nothing, and never leaves your device, it is not the kind of storage that requires consent under the applicable rules. It is a setting, in the same sense that your browser's zoom level is a setting.
4. If you would rather it were not stored
Two options, both entirely in your control:
- Do not use the switch. The site will simply follow whatever light or dark preference your operating system already reports, and store nothing.
- Clear it. Clearing site data for metasilver.org in your browser's settings removes it. The site continues to work exactly as before.
Blocking local storage for this site through your browser settings is also fine. The theme switch will stop remembering your choice between visits; nothing else changes.
5. Server logs are a separate matter
Cookies and local storage are things stored on your device. Server access logs are a different thing entirely: records the hosting infrastructure writes when it serves a page. They are described in section 3.2 of the privacy policy, along with what is in them and how long they are kept.
6. If this ever changes
Should we ever have a genuine reason to introduce a cookie or a third-party component, this page and the privacy policy will be updated in the same release that introduces it, and any consent required by law will be requested before the component loads — not after.
We would rather solve a problem without a cookie than solve it with one and ask you to accept it.
7. Contact
Questions about this policy:
[email protected]
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