Cookie Policy

Cookies have a worse reputation than most of them deserve, mostly because of the ones that follow people around. This page lists everything Stitch Obsession puts in your browser, by name.

What these things actually are

A cookie is a small note a website asks your browser to keep, so it can remember something between clicks. A closely related thing called local storage does the same job but stays on your own device and is never sent back to the server. This site uses local storage and no cookies of its own at all.

Everything this site stores

• stitchobsession_cookie_consent — local storage. Written when you press Accept or Decline on the small notice at the bottom of the screen, so the notice does not come back on every page. It holds one word: accepted or declined. Nothing on the site reads that word back for any other purpose — there is no measurement or advertising to switch on or off — so today the two buttons differ only in which word they save. Kept until you clear your browser data.
• cf_progress_ followed by the pattern's web address — local storage, one entry per pattern you tick rounds off on. It is what lets you close the page mid-square and come back to the same place. It holds which rounds you have ticked and nothing else, it is written whether or not you have answered the notice, it never leaves your device, and it is never sent to us.
• sp_completion_seen_ followed by the pattern's web address — local storage. Written when you close the small "you finished it" note that appears after the last round of a pattern is ticked, so that note only appears once per pattern. It holds the number 1.

That is the complete list. There is no session cookie, no visitor identifier, no advertising cookie and no third-party cookie on this site. The notice says "cookies" because that is the word everyone knows; strictly, every entry above is local storage, which stays on your device and is never sent with a request.

If you type your email address into one of the newsletter forms, that address goes to our own server and is kept there, as the privacy policy describes. Nothing about it is stored in your browser.

What is not here

No analytics service, no advertising network, no social media buttons that phone home, no embedded players, no heat-mapping, no session recording. Nothing on these pages reports your visit to anybody. The only request that leaves this site's own server is the web font, loaded from Google Fonts.

If that ever changes

If measurement or advertising is switched on in future, this page is rewritten first: each new cookie gets named here, along with who sets it, roughly how long it lasts and what it is for, and Decline starts to mean something — it will keep those new cookies off. The privacy policy carries the same commitment.

Clearing what is stored

Every browser can block or clear this, usually under Settings, then Privacy. Clearing site data for Stitch Obsession removes every entry above. Declining the notice changes nothing about how the site behaves, because there is nothing to decline yet. If you block storage entirely in your browser, everything still works exactly the same — the only things you lose are the round tracker remembering where you were and the finished note staying away, and the notice will ask again on every page. No pattern is ever gated behind accepting anything.