Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how DodoDeck ("we", "us", or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies (such as LocalStorage and IndexedDB) on our website (https://dododeck.com) and in our browser extensions. It clarifies what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to manage or disable them.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you load a website. They are widely used by web developers to make websites operate efficiently, remember user preferences across sessions, and provide anonymized reporting information.
2. How DodoDeck Uses Cookies
Because DodoDeck is built on a 100% client-side privacy architecture, we do not use cookies to track your personal files, documents, or photos. We only use cookies and browser storage for essential site functionality, user interface preferences, and supporting our free service through compliant Google AdSense advertisements.
3. Categories of Cookies We Use
We categorize the cookies utilized across our platform as follows:
- Essential & Security Cookies: Strictly necessary for the website to function properly, mitigate DDoS attacks, and verify secure HTTPS/TLS sessions via our Cloudflare infrastructure.
- Preference & Functionality Cookies: Used to remember your UI settings, such as your Light/Dark mode choice, recently selected tool filters, and audio volume levels in media tools.
- Advertising & Analytics Cookies: Placed by Google AdSense to serve relevant advertisements that fund our free development. These cookies help measure ad performance and prevent the same ad from showing repetitively.
4. Google AdSense & Third-Party Cookies
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to DodoDeck or other websites on the internet. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visits to our site and/or other sites across the web:
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ad Settings.
- Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendor use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting aboutads.info.
5. LocalStorage & IndexedDB Storage
In addition to traditional cookies, DodoDeck utilizes modern HTML5 Web Storage (LocalStorage and IndexedDB). Unlike cookies, Web Storage data is never transmitted to any web server with HTTP requests. It remains completely sandboxed inside your local browser to save temporary project states (such as active PDF canvas marks or TOTP accounts) entirely on your device.
6. How to Manage & Disable Cookies
You have the complete right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies at any time:
- Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies → Block third-party cookies.
- Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection → Custom → Cookies.
- Apple Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Prevent cross-site tracking / Block all cookies.
- Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data.
7. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this page regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other web technologies, please contact us via our official Contact Page.