Cookie Notice
The short version
This site sets one cookie, and only after you sign in. There is no analytics, no advertising network, no tracking pixel, and no third-party script of any kind. Nothing follows you between sites, and if you never sign in, nothing is set at all.
That is unusual enough to be worth stating plainly rather than burying, and it is why this page is short.
The one cookie
| Name | bizarusSession |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Proves to the server that you are signed in, so the private pages can be served to you and to nobody else. |
| Set when | You sign in. Never before. |
| Contains | Your session token. No name, no email, no tracking identifier. |
| Lifetime | Expires with your session, and is deleted the moment you sign out. |
| Shared with | Nobody. It is sent only to bizarus-ai.com. |
| Category | Strictly necessary. |
It is set HttpOnly, so no script can read it and a cross-site scripting bug could not steal it; SameSite=Strict, so your browser will not send it when you arrive from another site, which is what makes cross-site request forgery impossible; and Secure, so it never travels over an unencrypted connection.
It is used for one decision only: whether to serve you a private page. It is never accepted as authorisation for anything that reads or changes your data. That separation is deliberate.
What else is stored
Two further things are stored by your browser, on your device. Neither is a cookie and neither is transmitted to us the way a cookie is.
Theme preference
When you choose Dark or Light, that choice is saved in your browser's local storage under the name bizarusTheme, so the site does not forget it on your next visit. It is a single word. It is not an identifier and it tells us nothing about you.
Sign-in token, only if you have an account
If you sign in, your session token is held in your browser's session storage and is sent to us only when your browser makes a request to our own interface. Session storage is cleared automatically when you close the tab. Signing out removes it immediately.
Neither of these is shared with any third party, and neither is used to build a profile of you.
Requests that reach third parties
One request does leave our server when a page loads. Our pages use typefaces served by Google Fonts, so your browser fetches them from Google, and Google therefore receives your IP address and the fact that a page was requested. Google Fonts does not set cookies for this, but the request is a transfer of data to a third party and you should know about it.
If you follow the donation link to Ko-fi, or any other external link, you are on someone else's site under their policy, not ours.
How to clear what is stored
You can clear local and session storage at any time from your browser's settings, usually under privacy, site data or "clear browsing data". Doing so simply resets your theme to the default and signs you out. Nothing else is affected, and the site continues to work.
Browsers can also block third-party requests, which will prevent the Google Fonts request described above. The site remains readable if you do; it falls back to typefaces already on your device.
Why there is no cookie banner
Consent banners exist because sites place cookies that are not necessary for the service to work, most often for analytics or advertising. Under both the Mauritius Data Protection Act 2017 and the European rules that most banners are designed around, a cookie that is strictly necessary to deliver a service the user has asked for does not require consent.
The one cookie described above is exactly that. You cannot be signed in without it, it is set only when you choose to sign in, and it does nothing else. There is no non-essential cookie to ask you about, so asking would be theatre rather than choice.
If we ever introduce analytics, advertising or any third-party embed, we will ask properly, before setting anything, and this page will say so first.
Changes to this notice
If we introduce cookies, analytics or any third-party embed, we will update this page before doing so, and the date at the top will change.
Contact
Questions about this notice can be sent through the contact page.
About this notice
Everything on this page was checked against the running site rather than assumed. If a cookie, analytics tool or third-party embed is ever added, this page is updated in the same change that introduces it, before it reaches you.
Issued by Bizarus AI (Mauritius).