Cookie Policy
Your choice
Reject optional, Accept optional and Customize are available without paying or creating an account. Necessary sign-in and security functions still work when you reject optional storage. You can change your choice using the footer button at any time. Silence, scrolling and continuing to browse do not give optional consent.
Cookies and local storage
| Name / technology | Purpose | Duration / choice |
|---|---|---|
| wasabi_sid | Necessary sign-in session; HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax and Secure on HTTPS. Rejecting optional features does not sign you out. | Typically up to 7 days for standard website sign-in; Control Room sign-in can use a shorter 12-hour cookie. Server-side session expiry can differ. Sign-out or a password reset revokes relevant sessions. |
| wasabi_consent | Necessary record of the policy version, your analytics/reading choices and their timestamp; no advertising ID. | 180 days, unless cleared, replaced or invalidated by a new policy version. The duration is our product choice, not a universal legal consent period. |
| wasabi_view_<article id> | Optional analytics: prevents repeated counts for the same article in one day. | 24 hours; used only after analytics opt-in. Refusing analytics stops new counts and asks the server to remove existing count cookies. |
| Vercel Web Analytics | Optional aggregate page statistics, including page, referrer, coarse location and browser/device information. Vercel describes this service as cookieless; WASABI still gates it behind analytics consent. | No analytics script before opt-in. Future event sending is blocked after withdrawal. Previously aggregated statistics are not an identifiable personal browsing history. |
| wasabi-reading-memory:v1 | Optional local storage of recent article titles, positions and completion status, on this device. | Up to the most recent 60 entries, until replaced or cleared. Removed when optional reading features are rejected. |
| Service worker / wasabi-* caches | Optional offline page and asset storage. | Enabled with reading/offline consent. Existing WASABI caches are cleared and its worker is unregistered when those features are rejected, as browser lifecycle permits. |
| wasabi-comfort-settings | Display preferences such as theme, typeface and layout, used for appearance and settings you request. | Local storage until changed or cleared; not advertising or cross-site tracking. |
| wasabi:nl:*; wasabi:writerInvite:seenSession; wasabi-intro-seen | Newsletter invitation/dismissal preferences, subscription reminders and avoiding repeated interface prompts. | A dismissed newsletter invitation is checked for 7 days; some flags last for the tab session and local preferences remain until cleared. These controls do not subscribe you to marketing. |
Providers, content requests and browser controls
The optional statistics provider is Vercel. Our hosting, database, email and uploaded-image providers are described in the Privacy Policy. We do not currently configure an advertising-cookie category. A new optional purpose requires its own explanation and an appropriate new choice.
Rejecting optional cookies does not prevent ordinary network requests needed to deliver pages and images, provider security logs, or cookies you already set on external sites. External images can expose your IP address to their host. External links take you to services with their own controls. You can also clear cookies, local storage and site data in your browser; clearing the consent record makes the choice appear again.
Withdrawal and limits
Withdrawal stops future optional use covered by the choice. It cannot undo earlier aggregate counts or copies of public content already accessed. Cookie controls apply to this browser and site origin; choose again on another browser or device. Native apps can use different local storage and permissions.
If persistence is blocked, your choice may apply only during the current visit and may be requested again later. If a network failure prevents server-side cleanup of an older HttpOnly count cookie, it remains inactive for new measurement when analytics is refused and expires within its normal lifetime.
Further information
See our Privacy Policy and Vercel’s analytics privacy documentation. Necessary processing is not dependent on accepting optional measurement.
Contact and requests
Send privacy requests, corrections, complaints and legal notices to wasabimedia623@gmail.com. Identify the relevant account or page and explain what you need. Do not send passwords, reset links, unnecessary identity documents or sensitive information.
We may need proportionate evidence of identity or authority before disclosing, changing or deleting account data. We aim to respond promptly and must meet any response period that applicable law requires. You may complain directly to a relevant data-protection authority without contacting us first.
WASABI is operated by WASABI Media (independent publication). Questions about this document, privacy requests, legal notices or complaints all go to the same contact channel for review.
See also Privacy PolicyTerms of UseData & ComplianceIP Infringement