Cookies

PirateVault uses a small number of cookies, all of them needed for the site to work or to keep voting fair. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies of our own.

Cookies we set

• sid — keeps you signed in. Set when you sign in with Google; lasts 30 days or until you sign out. Its value is a random token; only a hash of it is stored on our side.

• si — tells the page that you may be signed in, so it can show "My account". Contains no personal data. Lasts as long as sid.

• did — a random device identifier used to detect several accounts voting from one device. Set when you sign in, vote or post; lasts about 13 months. We store only a salted hash of it, and delete that after 90 days.

• oauth — protects the sign-in round trip to Google against forgery. Lasts 10 minutes.

Guests

If you only browse, no cookie is set. Posting as a guest sets did.

Other services

Signing in takes you to Google, which sets its own cookies on its own pages. If the bot check is provided by Cloudflare Turnstile, Cloudflare may set a cookie needed for that check. If analytics or advertising are ever added to this site, this page will list them and you will be asked for consent where the law requires it.

Controlling cookies

You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings. Without them you can still browse and search, but you cannot sign in or vote.

More about how we handle data is in the privacy policy.