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Essential cookies support your choices and private access. Optional analytics IDs are used only with a current choice.
Updated October 3, 2026 · Consent version 2026-10-03.2
Our first-party cookies
Our server manages these cookies using secure connections. They cannot be read by page scripts. Random IDs identify a browser rather than verifying a person.
| Cookie | Purpose | Category | Maximum lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy choice __Host-istimthal-consent | Remembers the current consent version and your choice. | Essential | 180 days |
| Browser ID __Host-istimthal-visitor | Recognises a consenting browser for site analytics. | Optional | Cookie: 180 days; profile expires after 90 days and is deleted by daily cleanup. Removed earlier on withdrawal or deletion. |
| Session ID __Host-istimthal-session | Groups a consenting browser's recent activity. | Optional | 30 minutes, refreshed with activity |
| Owner session __Host-istimthal-admin | Protects the private dashboard after sign-in. | Essential; owner access only | One hour |
What optional analytics records
With your permission, analytics records public pages, interaction types and times, coarse country/device categories, referral domains and bounded campaign labels. It does not store raw IP addresses or raw user-agent strings, fingerprint browsers for audience analytics, or use advertising tracking. The server records consent time, method and notice version. These are pseudonymous records, not verified identities.
Form security
Cloudflare hosts the site and supplies the Turnstile bot check when you engage with the form. Turnstile can process IP addresses, user-agent, TLS fingerprints and origin details for security; Cloudflare may also improve its bot-detection service as a separate controller. This is distinct from Istimthal analytics. Cloudflare may use service-managed security cookies as necessary.
Read the Turnstile privacy addendum and Cloudflare privacy policy.
Changing or withdrawing your choice
Optional analytics is off until you accept. Choose “Essential only” to keep it off. Turning it off clears the optional cookies and erases this browser's stored analytics. Its separate waitlist contact, if any, is retained and unlinked until separately removed or expired.
Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track keep analytics off and withdraw a previous analytics choice. You can also download or delete this browser's analytics in the preferences dialog. A deleted or expired browser profile cannot resume tracking through its old ID without a fresh choice.
Clearing cookies can remove the ID needed to find previous records; it does not itself request deletion of server data. Stored records still expire under our retention limits.
More information
Read the privacy notice for contacts, processing locations, retention and requests, or email contact@istimthal.com.