Cookies and local storage

A cookie is a small piece of text a website asks your browser to keep and hand back the next time you visit. Related technologies (local storage, session storage, tracking pixels, device fingerprinting) do similar jobs by different means, and everything on this page applies to all of them.

Last updated: September 3, 2026.

What this site does

Timeless Ticks is a set of static pages. There is no login, no account, no basket, no comment system, no newsletter and no personalization, so there is nothing for the site itself to remember about you and no profile of you kept on our side. We do not ask you for a name, an address or an email address to read anything here, and there is no account for a reading history to be attached to. What an ordinary web server records when it sends you a page is covered in the privacy policy.

Three things are worth being specific about, because people sometimes mistake them for tracking:

• Search. Both search boxes download one index file and match your words inside your browser. The matching happens on your device, not on a server. Submitting a search sends you to an address ending #q=your+words, and the part after the # is not transmitted by browsers, so those words do not travel to the site. With JavaScript blocked the boxes fall back to ordinary forms and the words do travel in the address. The privacy policy sets this out in full.
• The calculators. The tools run entirely in your browser. The numbers you type into them are used to draw the answer on the page and are not sent anywhere. Reload the page and your inputs are gone.
• Dark mode. The site follows your operating system's light or dark preference through a CSS media query. Nothing is stored to do that, which is also why there is no light and dark switch: a switch would need somewhere to remember your choice.

What cookies and similar storage actually are

It helps to know the vocabulary, because consent banners use it loosely.

• First-party storage is set by the site whose address is in your bar. Third-party storage is set by some other domain whose code a page has loaded, which is the kind used to follow people between sites.
• Session cookies are discarded when you close the browser. Persistent cookies have an expiry date and survive until it passes or you delete them.
• Local storage and session storage hold larger amounts of data in the browser and are not sent with every request the way a cookie is.
• Your browser's cache is different again. It keeps copies of files such as the stylesheet, the script and the search index so pages load quickly. That is the browser's own store, not something the site can read.

Any website reaches you through infrastructure: hosting, a content delivery network, a domain registrar, a security layer. Those services can set storage of their own or log the requests that reach them, and that is true here as it is anywhere else, which is why this page does not hand you a list and call it complete. What we can tell you is what the pages are built to do, which is the section above, and how to check the rest for yourself, which is the section below. The privacy policy covers the data side.

How to see and control them

The reliable place to look is your own browser, because it shows you what is actually stored rather than what a website says is stored. On any page, clicking the icon at the left of the address bar shows what that site has kept and offers to clear it. The full controls live here:

• Chrome. Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies for blocking, and Delete browsing data for clearing. Per site: Settings, Privacy and security, Site settings, then View permissions and data stored across sites.
• Firefox. Settings, then Privacy & Security. Enhanced Tracking Protection is at the top, and Cookies and Site Data below it has Manage Data and Clear Data.
• Safari on a Mac. Safari, then Settings, then Privacy, where you will find Prevent cross-site tracking and Manage Website Data.
• Safari on iPhone or iPad. The Settings app, then Apps, then Safari, where Clear History and Website Data sits near the bottom and Advanced, then Website Data lists what is stored site by site.
• Edge. Settings, then Cookies and site permissions, then Manage and delete cookies and site data.
• Chrome on Android. The three-dot menu, then Settings, then Site settings, then Cookies, and Delete browsing data for clearing.

Two more controls sit below the browser. On iPhone and iPad, Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Tracking governs whether apps may ask to track you. On Android, Settings, then Security & privacy, then Privacy, then Ads lets you delete or turn off the advertising ID. Independent content blockers and privacy extensions also work normally on this site: we do not detect them, we do not nag you about them, and we do not withhold or degrade a single word of the content if you use one.

If this changes

If we ever add something to these pages that stores data on your device for our own purposes, analytics or anything else, this page will describe it, with what it does and how long it lasts, and the privacy policy will be updated in the same change. The date at the top tells you when this page was last confirmed as accurate, and a page whose date has drifted a long way behind the present should be treated with suspicion, including this one.

Related

The full picture on data is in our privacy policy. If something here is unclear or looks wrong, our contact page is the place to say so.