Cookie Policy
Last updated: 17 August 2026 · In effect from 17 August 2026
This page explains which cookies and similar browser technologies streakwiki.com uses, what each one is for and how you can refuse or remove them. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers personal information more broadly.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store, and that the browser sends back on later visits. It lets a site remember a choice you made, count a visit, or recognise that two page views came from the same browser. Related technologies do the same job by other means: local storage keeps small values inside the browser, and a service worker is a background script the browser keeps so it can receive notifications. In this policy “cookie” covers all of them.
Categories used on this site
| Category | What it does | Typical lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | Keeps the site usable: remembers your answer to the cookie bar so it is not shown again, holds security and load-balancing values from the hosting provider, and stores the local record of a submitted subscription form. These cannot be switched off without breaking basic behaviour. | Session up to 12 months; the cookie bar choice is stored in local storage until you clear site data |
| Analytics | Counts visits and page views so we can see which catalogue entries are read and where readers stop. The reports we see are aggregated, not individual profiles. | Up to 24 months |
| Advertising and marketing | Set by advertising partners to select which promotion is shown, to limit how often it repeats and to measure whether a promoted entry was opened. Also used by the push service to link your browser to a notification subscription after you allow it. | Up to 13 months, or until the notification permission is revoked |
How your choice works
When you first open the site a bar appears at the bottom of the page with two options. Accept allows the analytics and advertising categories. Decline keeps the site to essential cookies only. Your answer is stored in your browser’s local storage so the bar is not shown again, and you can change your mind at any time by clearing site data for streakwiki.com, which makes the bar reappear on your next visit.
Essential storage is written regardless of the choice, because without it the bar itself could not remember your answer.
Cookies and browser notifications
The push notification service loads with the page and registers a service worker so that notifications can be delivered later. No subscription exists until you allow notifications in the browser prompt, which we only trigger after you submit the subscription form. Once you allow them, an anonymous subscription identifier is stored for your browser; if you block notifications, or clear site data, the identifier stops working and no further messages can reach you.
You can review or revoke notification permission at any time in your browser settings, under site permissions for streakwiki.com. Doing so does not affect e-mail updates, which you unsubscribe from through the link at the bottom of each message.
Plus membership works the same way: no cookie on this site records whether you are a member. Your membership status is held against your e-mail address by the mail provider and the payment provider, so clearing cookies or reading the site in a private window changes nothing about it — and equally, the site cannot tell from a cookie who is a member and who is not.
How to refuse or remove cookies
- Use Decline in the cookie bar to keep the site to essential storage only.
- Delete existing cookies and local storage for this site through your browser settings — usually under Privacy, Site settings or Site data.
- Set the browser to block third-party cookies, or use private browsing so that everything is dropped when the window closes.
- Turn on the browser’s tracking protection, which restricts advertising cookies on every site you visit.
Blocking cookies will not lock you out of the catalogue: every entry stays readable. The only visible effect is that choices such as the cookie bar answer are forgotten between visits.
Third parties
Some cookies described here are set by providers acting on our behalf — the hosting and content delivery provider, the traffic measurement provider, the push notification service and advertising partners. Their handling of the information is governed by their own policies, and the categories in which they operate are listed in the table above. The types of provider we work with, and the way personal information is shared with them, are set out in the Privacy Policy.
Changes
If we add a technology or change a category, this page is updated and the date at the top is moved. Where a change requires fresh consent, the cookie bar is shown again.
Contact
Questions about cookies on this site: hi@streakwiki.com.