Cookies and local storage
This site sets no cookies at all. It writes one entry to your browser's local storage, and only if you press the theme switch.
· Written in plain English on purpose
The complete inventory
| Key | Type | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
theme | Local storage | Remembers whether you chose light or dark, so the page does not flash the wrong one on your next visit | Until you clear your browser data |
That is the entire list. Local storage is not a cookie: it is never attached to a request,
so the value never reaches our server. It holds the word light or
dark and nothing else — no identifier, no visit count, nothing that could
single you out.
Before you touch the theme switch, even that entry is absent. The site reads your system preference instead, which happens entirely inside your browser.
Why there is no consent banner
Consent requirements under the ePrivacy Directive and comparable rules attach to storing or reading information on your device for purposes that are not strictly necessary. A single key that records the display setting you personally just selected is the textbook example of strictly necessary — and there is nothing else here to ask about.
A banner that appeared anyway would be theater. It would also train visitors to click through the one that actually matters, on some other site, without reading it.
How to remove it
Clearing site data for breakatlas.com in your browser settings removes the entry. Private or incognito windows discard it when you close them. Nothing on this site stops working without it — the theme simply follows your operating system again.
What would change this page
Three things are planned that would add entries, and each one gets written into the table above before it ships:
- Surf cam embeds. A public stream from a third-party operator loads only after you click a placeholder. Your choice would be remembered in a local storage key so you are not asked twice per session.
- Advertising. An ad network sets its own cookies. If one is added, this page names the network, and visitors in regions that require a consent choice get one before any ad script runs.
- Affiliate links. Clicking one leads to a retailer who sets cookies on their own domain under their own policy — never on breakatlas.com. See advertising and affiliates.
Third parties today
None. Fonts are served from this domain, there is no analytics script, no social widget, no tag manager and no consent platform. Opening a page here contacts one server. What that server records is described in the privacy policy.
Questions
If you find a cookie on this domain that is not in the table above, that is a bug worth reporting: info@breakatlas.com. Send the name and the page you found it on.