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This policy covers the cookies and local browser storage used by the shteg.ai marketing site and the ShtegMed application. The short version: we use cookies for the things that make the site work — keeping you signed in and remembering your preferences — and we do not run third-party advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. This is a draft published for transparency while the finalized policy is prepared with counsel.
Session and authentication cookies keep an authenticated session alive inside the application so you are not asked to sign in on every request. Preference storage remembers UI choices — for example the light/dark theme, which is applied via a data attribute on the page root, and the interface-language selection, which uses a Google-provided translation cookie for the on-page language switcher. Local storage holds transient application state so the app behaves correctly across a session. None of these are advertising identifiers, and PHI is never placed in a cookie.
The site does not embed third-party ad networks, social pixels, or cross-site behavioral trackers, and a strict content-security posture blocks requests to external hosts on the published surfaces. Where we measure anything, it is limited to first-party operational logs of the kind any web server keeps, kept separate from PHI and kept minimal. The binding version will enumerate any analytics precisely.
You can clear or block cookies through your browser settings. Blocking strictly-necessary session cookies will sign you out and prevent the application from functioning; blocking preference cookies simply resets choices like theme and language to their defaults. Because this policy is a draft, the reliable way to ask a specific question is to email a human, who will respond.
Questions about the cookies we set, preference storage, or how we keep tracking off the site — send a note and a person will respond. No form that posts into a void.