Cookie Policy

Wheel of Heaven is a static site and uses cookies only for essential preferences. There is no tracking, no profiling, and no third-party advertising.

Wheel of Heaven is a static site. There is no backend, no database, and no user account system. Cookies are used only for essential preferences. There is no tracking, no profiling, and no third-party advertising.

A cookie is a small text file your browser stores on your device when it visits a website. Some cookies are essential for the site to function (remembering whether you have the lights on or off, what language you read in); others are used by trackers to build a profile of your activity across the web. This site uses the first kind and not the second.

What the site stores

The site uses your browser's local storage (technically localStorage, which is close enough to a cookie for this policy) for a small number of strictly functional preferences:

  • Theme — light or dark mode, so the site does not flash a different theme on each page load.
  • Language — which of the nine supported translations you are reading, so you do not have to re-select it on every page.
  • Disclaimer acknowledgement — a one-bit flag that records you have dismissed the project's "this is a working hypothesis" banner, so it does not reappear on every visit.

None of this leaves your device. None of it is associated with an identifier. None of it is sent to a third party.

What the site does not do

The site does not:

  • Track your behaviour across pages, sessions, or websites
  • Build a profile of who you are or what you read
  • Set advertising or marketing cookies
  • Run third-party analytics scripts
  • Sell or share any data with anyone

The closest the site comes to "analytics" is whatever the hosting provider logs at the request level (IP address, user agent, requested path) for ordinary server operation. Those logs are the hosting provider's, not the project's. They are not joined to any identifier on the site's side, because the site has no identifiers to join them to.

Third parties

The site embeds no third-party tracking scripts. If a page links to an external resource — for example, GitHub Discussions or a Wikipedia reference — that link only takes effect if you click it. Following such a link is governed by that site's policy, not this one.

Disabling preferences

You can clear the site's stored preferences at any time through your browser's settings (typically: site settings → cookies and site data → clear data for wheelofheaven.world). The site will continue to work; it will simply forget your theme and language choices on the next visit.

Changes to this policy

If the project ever changes what the site stores — for example, if it adds opt-in analytics at some point — this page will be updated and the change will be flagged in the release notes. The CC0 license on the corpus also applies to this policy: you may copy, adapt, and reuse it freely.

Contact

For questions, open a thread on GitHub Discussions or an issue on the repository.