Cookie Policy
The cookies and browser storage Spaceflare sets, why we set them, and how to manage your choices. No advertising cookies, ever.
On this page
Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser; local storage is a similar mechanism that keeps slightly larger values on your device. This policy lists every cookie and storage entry that Spaceflare ("we", "us") sets on our website, in the Console, and on our documentation pages, explains what each one does, and tells you how to change your choices.
1. What we use
We keep tracking minimal. The Services do not use advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, or third-party ad trackers — and they never will. Everything we set falls into one of exactly three categories:
- Strictly necessary — required for the website or Console to function at all: signing you in and remembering your consent choices. These cannot be switched off.
- Preferences — remember choices you make so the interface stays the way you left it.
- Analytics — help us understand, in aggregate, what is useful. We do not build advertising profiles and we do not sell this data.
Local storage entries live in your browser and are not transmitted to us automatically the way cookies are; our pages read them only where the corresponding feature is used.
2. Cookies & storage we set
| Name | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
pl_session | Strictly necessary | Keeps you signed in to the Console | 30 days |
pl_consent | Strictly necessary | Remembers your cookie choices | 12 months |
pl_legal_ack | Preferences | Remembers which Terms version you acknowledged | 12 months |
xdp.sidebar (local storage) | Preferences | Sidebar collapsed state in the Console | Until cleared |
docs-vote:* (local storage) | Analytics | Remembers docs helpfulness votes so they aren't counted twice | Until cleared |
That is the complete list. If a feature ever needs a new cookie or storage entry, it will appear in this table — and, unless it is Strictly necessary, behind your consent — before it is set.
3. Managing your choices
A consent banner appears on your first visit and lets you accept or decline each optional
category. You can change your mind at any time: use the "Cookie settings" button on this
page or the same link in the footer of every page to reopen the banner and update your
choices. Your selection is stored in pl_consent so we can honor it on future visits.
Strictly necessary items cannot be disabled through the banner, because the Service does
not work without them — there is no signed-in Console without pl_session, and no way to
remember your other choices without pl_consent. Declining Preferences or Analytics
changes nothing about the protection your Protected Infrastructure receives; those
categories only affect convenience features and aggregate feedback.
4. Browser controls
You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings, independently of our banner. Every major browser lets you refuse all cookies, refuse third-party cookies, or clear stored data for a specific site — check your browser's help pages for the exact steps.
One warning: blocking Strictly necessary cookies at the browser level breaks sign-in.
If your browser refuses pl_session, the Console cannot keep you authenticated, and you
will be signed out or unable to sign in until the block is lifted. Blocking or clearing
Preferences and Analytics storage is harmless — the corresponding features simply forget
what they remembered.
5. Changes & contact
When this policy changes, we update the version history below and, where the change is material, ask for your consent again through the banner. How we handle personal data more broadly — including what little of it touches these cookies — is covered by the Privacy Policy.
Questions about this policy or your choices: support@spaceflare.org.
Version history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| Initial publication. |