Cookies

The calendar sets no cookies and has no analytics, and nothing here is for advertising. This website uses Google Analytics to count visits, but only if you accept. Until you do, nothing is loaded from Google and nothing for analytics is stored.

1. Why the calendar needs no cookies

A cookie travels to a server with every single request. Auralar does not need that: it signs you in with a token that the page attaches only to the requests that need it, and keeps it in your browser’s own local storage instead. The practical difference for you is that nothing about your session is sent along with requests that have no business carrying it.

The rules that cover cookies cover local storage in the same way, so this page treats it as if it were cookies rather than hiding behind the distinction.

2. What is kept, and what it is for

Everything Auralar stores on a device for the calendar and for the way the website looks falls into one of two purposes, and both are strictly necessary — the category that needs no permission on any website, because without it the thing you asked for does not work.

Keeping you signed in

A signed token that says this screen belongs to your household, which household it is looking at, and — only if you asked for it — that this device should stay unlocked. It is what makes the calendar yours rather than anybody’s. Signing out removes it.

Remembering how this screen is set up

The look and the light-or-dark setting, which wall style this screen shows, whether it fills the display, how long before it drifts back to the wall, and which release notes it has already seen. On this website it is only one thing: whether you chose light or dark, and only if that differs from your device. All of it describes one screen, none of it describes you, and most of it is never sent anywhere — it exists so the tablet in the kitchen and the phone in your pocket can be set up completely differently.

The one other thing is optional: the website’s analytics, described in section 6. It is off until you accept it, there is nothing for advertising, and nothing is stored to recognise you anywhere other than on Auralar itself. The calendar and the administration panel never load analytics.

3. Your choices

What is strictly necessary needs no permission, so there is nothing to accept for it. The website’s analytics is different: on your first visit a small bar asks, with “Accept analytics” and “No thanks” side by side and equally easy to press. “No thanks”, or not choosing, means nothing is loaded from Google. You can change your mind at any time with Cookie choices at the foot of every page.

4. Removing it

Signing out of Auralar removes the sign-in token. What is left describes how that one screen is set up, so that signing back in does not land you on a screen that has forgotten itself.

To remove everything, clear site data for this site in your browser’s settings — in Chrome and Edge under Privacy, in Safari under Advanced › Website Data, in Firefox under Cookies and Site Data.

Clearing it does not delete your calendar. That is on the server, and signing in again brings all of it back.

5. Other companies

Apart from Google Analytics, and only if you accept it (section 6), this website loads nothing from anybody else — no fonts, no embedded videos, no share buttons that phone home.

The one exception is the checkout, inside the calendar. When you choose to subscribe, Paddle’s payment form is loaded to take the payment, and Paddle may store what they need in order to process it. That happens only at the moment you subscribe, never before. Their terms and privacy notice are linked from the terms of sale, and what we store about a subscription is described in the privacy policy. Receipts and billing emails come from Paddle directly.

6. Analytics (only if you accept)

If you press Accept analytics, this website loads Google Analytics 4 from Google (googletagmanager.com). We use it to see, in totals, how many people visit and which pages they open, so we can improve the website. It is used on this website only: never in the calendar, never in the administration panel, and nothing you put in your calendar is part of it. We have switched off Google’s advertising features: no Google signals and no ad personalisation.

What it records, in general terms

Which pages are opened and when, roughly where in the world a visit comes from, the kind of browser and device, and how the visit arrived (for example from a search). Google Analytics 4 does not store full IP addresses. Your visit is linked to a random identifier in a cookie, not to your name or email address.

The cookies

• _ga — the random identifier that tells one browser from another.
• _ga_GLNX66QW7Z — keeps the state of your current visit.

These are set by Google’s script, on this website’s domain. They are meant to last beyond a single visit (Google’s own documentation gives the exact periods), and your browser will delete them earlier if you clear site data.

Changing your choice

Press Cookie choices at the foot of any page and choose again. The choice itself is kept in your browser’s local storage on this device (not a cookie, and not sent to us) under the name auralar.site.analytics, so we can remember it between pages. If you choose “No thanks” after accepting, nothing more is loaded from Google, and we remove the Google Analytics cookies we are able to reach; clearing site data in your browser removes anything left. Google’s own privacy information is on policies.google.com. The privacy policy says who is responsible and on what basis this is done.

Questions: support@auralar.co.