Privacy and cookies

What we collect

Nothing that identifies you. There is no sign-up, no analytics script and no advertising network on the site. The hosting provider that serves the pages keeps ordinary server logs for a short time, as every host does: the address and browser of each request, used only to keep the site running and secure.

When you rate an item or react to one of Russ’s lines, the site signs you in anonymously with Supabase, the service that stores what you add, and keeps the rating or reaction against that anonymous user: a random id, with no name, email or address behind it (see Cookies below).

View counts

Each item, quote, store and video page counts how many times it is opened, per day, as one number. Nothing is kept about who opened it: no address, no id, no cookie. The count exists so the site can one day show what people are looking at.

What stays in your browser

A few conveniences are kept in your browser’s local storage. They never leave your device and are gone when you clear the site’s data:

• your theme choice (system, light or dark);
• your last eight searches, shown on the search screen;
• whether you dismissed the “install the app” prompt, and when, so it stays away for a fortnight;
• a count of the pages you have seen this visit, used only to decide when to offer the app.

When you install the site as an app, a service worker keeps a copy of the offline page so the site can tell you when you have no connection. It caches nothing else; pages and data always come from the network.

Cookies

Until you rate or react, the site sets no cookie at all. The first time you do, it signs you in anonymously and keeps that session in cookies named sb-…-auth-token, set by the site for the site: a random user id and the token that proves it, so your rating is still yours when you come back. They hold no personal data. Three things the site loads from elsewhere have their own rules:

• The first time you rate or react, hCaptcha checks that you are a person. Its script loads for that check only, and its own privacy policy applies to it.
• The video page embeds YouTube’s player in its privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com), which stores nothing until you press play. Once you do, YouTube’s own cookies and privacy policy apply.
• Video thumbnails and some item pictures are loaded from YouTube’s image servers, which see that request the way any image host does.

Links to other sites

“Find it online” and the store links open the retailers’ and brands’ own websites, and the watch buttons open YouTube. Each of those has its own privacy policy; this one stops at the edge of this site.

Your choices

Clear the site’s data in your browser to remove everything kept there, or uninstall the app. Removing a rating on its page deletes it. If you clear the cookies first, the ratings and reactions of that anonymous user stay in the database with no way back to you; write to us and they will be removed. If you have a question about any of this, ask.

Write to admin+russeats@zoov.dev.

Changes

If any of this changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves.