We do not set any. Here is the proof.

What a cookie is, briefly

A small file a website asks your browser to keep and hand back on your next visit. It can hold a preference, or a login, or a number that lets a company follow you between sites. The last of those is why cookie banners exist.

The same reasoning covers everything that behaves like a cookie: local storage, session storage, pixels, web beacons, tracking URLs and the identifiers a mobile app can read. This page treats all of it the same way, because the law does.

This website

Nothing is stored on your device by this site. No cookies, no local storage, no session storage, no pixels, no tracking parameters.

Two consequences worth knowing. First, there is no cookie banner here, because there is nothing to ask you about, and a banner that asks permission for nothing is just noise. Second, the typefaces are served from this domain rather than from a font CDN, so opening this page does not tell Google, or anyone else, that you were here.

What the server does see

Not storage, but worth being straight about: when you load a page, our server necessarily receives your IP address and your browser’s user agent, as every server does. When you submit the waitlist form we keep your email address, the time, which of the two fields you used and that user agent string. The IP address is used to rate limit the form, is held in memory only, and is not written to the waitlist record.

The Sole app

Mobile apps do not use cookies, but they can carry the same machinery under different names. Here is what is in ours.

Crash and performance diagnostics come from Apple and Google in aggregate form, through the ordinary store reporting you can turn off in your device’s privacy settings. We do not run our own crash SDK on top of it.

If this ever changes

Running a product eventually creates a reason to measure something. If we add anything that stores or reads data on your device beyond what is strictly necessary, three things happen, in this order:

• This page is updated first, naming the specific tool, what it collects and how long it keeps it.
• A consent control appears, and it asks before anything is set rather than after. Refusing is one click, and refusing is the default state until you choose otherwise.
• The advertising row above stays empty. That one is not a measurement decision, it is the reason Sole is paid.

You can also stop cookies at the browser level, for us and for everyone, in your browser’s privacy settings. Nothing on soledating.app breaks if you do, since there is nothing to block.

Questions, or a claim that this page is wrong, to privacy@soledating.app. If you find something storing data we have not declared, that is a bug and we would like to know.