Legal
Cookie Policy
Last updated: June 10, 2026
This page explains how cookies and similar technologies are used on phalangix.com and any subdomain we operate.
The short version
We use only the strict minimum. No advertising cookies. No analytics cookies. No social media tracking. No third-party scripts. The site works without setting any cookie in your browser for ordinary visitors.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store and send back on each request. Some cookies are essential for a feature to work (for example, staying logged in). Others are used to track users across many websites for advertising or analytics. We use none of the latter.
Cookies we set
1. Admin session cookie (essential)
| Name | PHPSESSID |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Keeps an authenticated session open in the private admin area. |
| When set | Only when someone logs into /admin/. Not set for visitors browsing the public site. |
| Lifetime | Session (cleared when the browser closes) or 2 hours, whichever comes first. |
| Origin | First-party (phalangix.com) |
| Legal basis | Strictly necessary - exempt from consent under EU ePrivacy Directive Art. 5(3). Not considered a "tracker" under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). |
2. Cookie banner state (essential)
| Name | phalangix_cookie_ack |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Remembers that you dismissed the cookie information banner so it does not reappear on every page. |
| When set | Only after you click "Got it" on the banner. |
| Lifetime | 365 days. |
| Origin | First-party (phalangix.com), stored as a browser localStorage entry rather than a real HTTP cookie. |
| Legal basis | Strictly necessary - exempt from consent. |
What we do not set
- No analytics cookies. Visit and download counts are aggregated server-side without any browser identifier or cookie. The coarse device and browser totals come from the standard user-agent header your browser sends with every request, and the approximate country is looked up from your IP on our own server (the IP is never stored), not from anything saved on your device. See the Privacy Policy for details.
- No advertising cookies. We do not run ads.
- No third-party tracking pixels (no Meta Pixel, no Google tags, no Bing UET, no TikTok pixel, no LinkedIn Insight, no anything similar).
- No social embed cookies by default. We link to Discord, YouTube, and X using plain text links that do not load third-party scripts.
- No CDN fingerprinting. The site is served from our own hosting; no Cloudflare, no Akamai, no third-party CDN that could correlate visitors across sites.
Browser controls
You can configure your browser to refuse all cookies or to alert you when a cookie is being set. Since we only use strictly necessary cookies, blocking them has no impact on browsing the public site - the only effect is that the admin login will not work.
Changes
If we ever introduce a non-essential cookie or a third-party script that sets one, we will update this page and ask for your consent through the banner before it loads.
Contact
For any cookie-related question, write to contact@phalangix.com.