1. What Are Cookies and Local Storage?
Cookies are small text files placed on your browser or device when you visit a website. Similar technologies include browser local storage, session storage, and tracking pixels. These technologies help websites maintain user preferences, analyze traffic flow, and deliver targeted advertising.
2. Zero-Storage for Tool Content
We do not use cookies or local storage to store, track, or inspect the cipher text, passwords, or plaintexts you process in our converter tools. All mathematical transformations run in ephemeral client memory and are discarded when you navigate away.
3. Cookie Categories Used on This Site
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: Required for fundamental site operations, content delivery, routing, and basic security protections (such as bot mitigation). These cannot be switched off in our systems.
- Functional & Preference Storage: Used to remember non-sensitive UI preferences (such as your preferred dark/light color scheme) stored directly in browser local storage.
- Performance & Analytics (Google Analytics 4): Google Analytics sets first-party cookies (such as
_gaand_ga_*) to measure page views, navigation paths, and load latency in aggregate without identifying you personally. - Advertising & Targeting (Google AdSense): Third-party ad networks place cookies (such as
__gads,__gpi, andIDE) to manage ad frequency, prevent fraud, and serve interest-relevant advertisements.
4. Google AdSense & Third-Party Ad Cookies
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on Cipher Decipher. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on prior visits to this site and other sites on the Internet.
For more details on how Google uses information from sites that use its services, visit Google Advertising Technologies.
5. How to Manage and Opt Out of Cookies
You have multiple ways to control how cookies are stored on your device:
- Browser Settings: You can configure your browser to reject all cookies, block third-party cookies, or clear stored cookies whenever you close the browser. Note that blocking all cookies may impact some styling or functional elements.
- Google Ad Settings: You can customize or disable personalized advertising across Google networks at Google Ads Settings.
- Digital Advertising Alliance (US): Opt out of participating ad networks at AboutAds Consumer Choice Page.
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EU/EEA): Manage advertising consent across European ad networks at Your Online Choices.
- Global Privacy Control (GPC): We recognize and respect browser-based GPC signals where supported and mandated by law.
6. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this policy as we integrate new utilities or advertising partners. Any changes will be reflected on this page with an updated modification date.
7. Contact
If you have questions regarding our cookie practices, please reach out via our Contact Page or email us at contact@cipherdecipher.com.