Cookies & Local Storage

We keep BookCloud as quiet as the internet allows. This site uses one analytics tool — PostHog — to count visits and understand which links people tap. It doesn't set advertising cookies, identify you by name, share data with advertisers, or fingerprint you across other sites.

Below is everything that happens when you visit — how we ask for your consent, the analytics, a security cookie from our host, and the third-party services your browser fetches files from.

Your consent comes first

Privacy law in Europe (the ePrivacy rules) requires your consent before a site stores information on your device or reads it back — and that applies to any storage technology, not just cookies. Our analytics stores its anonymous ID in your browser's localStorage rather than a cookie, but the rule is the same, so we ask first.

When you first visit, a banner asks you to Accept or Reject analytics. Until you choose, PostHog stores nothing on your device and records nothing.

• Accept — PostHog runs normally and stores its anonymous ID in your localStorage.
• Reject — PostHog switches to a cookieless mode: nothing is stored on your device at all, and your visit is only counted anonymously using a privacy-preserving hash calculated on PostHog's servers.

You can change your mind at any time using the Cookie settings link in the footer of any page — withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it. To remember your choice, PostHog stores a small consent flag; that flag is strictly necessary to honour your decision, so it stays regardless of which option you pick.

We don't set advertising cookies, cross-site tracking pixels, A/B-test cookies, or marketing-attribution cookies.

No accounts, no sign-in

You can browse the site without giving us anything. The “Get in touch” button opens your email app so you can send us a note — nothing is collected automatically.

Our analytics

Once you've accepted, we use PostHog to count visits, see which links people tap, and understand whether the “Get in touch” button leads to an email. Specifically, we collect:

• the pages you visit on this site,
• the buttons and links you click,
• your browser and device type (e.g. “Chrome on Android”),
• your IP address, which PostHog uses to derive an approximate country,
• and an anonymous ID stored in your browser's localStorage.

We don't record what you type, capture screen replays, fingerprint you, or link any of this to your name or email. Our PostHog project is hosted in the EU.

If you'd rather not be counted at all, choose Reject in the banner (or Cookie settings in the footer) for cookieless anonymous counting — and any ad or tracker blocker will block PostHog entirely without breaking the page.

Third-party requests when the page loads

To display fonts and icons, your browser fetches files from Google Fonts, Tailwind, and Iconify. Those services may log the request (typical web-server logs — IP address, user agent) and could set cookies on their own domains. We don't control those services and we don't receive that information.

A security cookie from our host

BookCloud is served through Cloudflare, which may set a small cookie (such as __cf_bm) to tell humans apart from bots. It's used only for security and isn't used to identify you.

If this changes

PostHog also supports session replay (recording what visitors do on the page) and feature flags. We've deliberately left both off. If we ever turn either on, or add accounts when the product launches, we'll update this page first.

Questions

Email us at admin@bookcloud.app.

Last updated: 19 June 2026