Cookie Policy

Summary

Timer Point does not use cookies to track you. The tools on this site instead use your browser's local storage to remember settings like your theme or the last timer duration you used, entirely on your own device. This page explains the difference, what we use today, and what could change if we ever add ads or analytics.

What is a cookie, and how is local storage different?

A cookie is a small piece of data a website asks your browser to store and then send back with every later request to that site, which is how cookies are commonly used for cross-site tracking. Local storage (what Timer Point uses) is also a small piece of data stored in your browser, but it is never automatically sent anywhere; a page has to deliberately read it, and only the site that set it can read it. That makes it well suited to remembering a preference without being a tracking mechanism.

What Timer Point stores today

Everything below is stored only in your own browser's local storage, under keys prefixed tn:, and is never sent to our servers:

• Your light/dark/system theme choice
• Sound preferences: mute, volume, and which completion ringtone you picked
• Settings for individual tools, such as a saved list of names for the random name picker, your world clock cities, or the last duration you set on a timer
• Whether you've seen certain one-time messages or prompts

None of this is a cookie in the strict sense, none of it identifies you personally, and none of it is shared with or readable by any other website.

What Timer Point does not do

• We do not set tracking or advertising cookies.
• We do not use local storage to build a profile of you across visits or across other websites.
• We do not sell or share browsing data with third parties.

If ads or analytics are added in future

Ad and analytics slots exist in the site's code but are switched off by default, and no ad network or analytics script ships with the site today. If we ever turn one on, it would typically set its own cookies (for example, to measure ad performance or aggregate, anonymized usage), and we would update this page to name the provider and explain what it does before switching it on, not after.

Third-party embeds

If you view a Timer Point timer embedded on someone else's website (via our Embed a Timer tool), that embedded page is still served from timernook.com and follows this same policy, it does not set cookies belonging to the site that embedded it, or vice versa.

How to control or clear this data

Because everything is stored locally rather than as tracking cookies, you are always in control of it directly through your browser:

• Clear it: clear your browser's site data or local storage for timernook.com, in your browser's privacy or site settings.
• Block it: browsing in a private/incognito window means nothing is kept after you close the window. Every tool still works; it just won't remember your settings for next time.
• Inspect it: your browser's developer tools (Application or Storage tab) let you see exactly what is stored, under the tn: prefix.

Related policies

See the privacy policy for how we handle data more broadly, and the terms of use for the rules of using the site.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to hello@timernook.com, or via the contact form.