Auric Artisan · Legal

Cookie Policy & Preferences

Effective: April 27, 2026 Last updated: September 26, 2026 Version: 1.2 Reading time: ~4 min

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Key Points

We use limited cookies and browser storage to keep the site working and remember preferences
Account cookies such as session and CSRF cookies are essential when sign-in is enabled
We do not use cookies for cross-site tracking, behavioural profiling, or invasive advertising
Web analysis and theme generation may use temporary processing data, not marketing cookies
Preferences such as theme and eye-rest settings are stored per browser and device
You can manage non-essential cookies through this page or your browser settings

1. Policy Overview

This Cookie Policy explains how Auric Artisan uses cookies, local storage, and similar browser technologies when you access the Platform, including color science tools, articles and learning resources, web analysis, theme generation, palette tools, visual simulations, and exploratory color models.

Plain language: We use limited browser storage to keep the site working, remember your settings, support interactive tools, and understand basic platform performance. We do not use cookies to follow you across the web.

2. What Are Cookies and Local Storage

Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser. Local storage is browser-based storage that can remember preferences such as theme, layout, or tool settings.

Some data is temporary and disappears when your session ends. Some preference data may remain until it expires, you clear it, or you change your browser settings.

3. Current Platform Status

Auric Artisan may include pricing pages, account access, billing pages, or paid access references depending on deployment status. Account sign-in uses essential first-party cookies for session and CSRF protection where enabled.

Payment providers may set their own cookies or identifiers inside official checkout, billing portal, or payment confirmation flows. Auric Artisan does not use payment cookies for advertising profiles.

Current state: Cookie use is limited to site operation, account security, preferences, tool interaction, consent storage, privacy-friendly analytics where enabled, and Google AdSense advertising cookies only if you allow Marketing cookies.

4. How We Use Cookies

We group cookies and browser storage into four practical categories:

Essential — Required for consent choices, basic security, tool sessions, and reliable site operation.
Functional — Remember preferences such as dark mode, language, layout, eye-rest settings, and recently used tools.
Privacy-friendly analytics — Limited performance and usage signals that help us improve the Platform. These are not used for advertising profiles.
Marketing — Off unless you allow it. When allowed, Google AdSense may serve ads on the site and set its own advertising cookies.

Web analysis and theme generation tools may temporarily process submitted URLs, visual data, palettes, performance signals, or generated outputs. These tool processes do not require marketing cookies and should not be treated as certified security, compliance, or medical analysis.

Note: Essential cookies and storage cannot be disabled through our preference panel because they are required for the Platform to function securely.

5. No Cross-Site Tracking or Marketing Pixels

Auric Artisan does not use cookies for cross-site tracking, behavioural profiling, invasive advertising, or private activity monitoring.

We do not currently use Facebook Pixel, LinkedIn Insight Tag, Google Ads remarketing cookies, or similar advertising trackers on this page.

6. Third-Party Services

Some infrastructure, security, font delivery, or privacy-friendly analytics services may receive limited technical information such as browser type, page load timing, and basic request data.

Payment, account, and subscription providers may be used where those features are enabled. Provider-controlled cookies or identifiers are governed by the provider's own terms and privacy notices.

7. Your Legal Rights

Depending on your location, privacy laws such as the DPDP Act (India), GDPR (EU), UK GDPR, CCPA (California), and similar regulations may give you rights to understand and control how cookies and related data are used.

Know what cookies or browser storage are being used and why
Accept or reject non-essential cookies where offered
Withdraw consent for non-essential cookies
Clear cookies and local storage through your browser
Contact us with privacy or cookie questions

Exercise your rights: Use the preferences panel below, manage storage in your browser, or contact us through the Privacy Policy page.

8. Manage Cookie Preferences

Control which non-essential categories are active. Essential cookies and storage remain active because they are required for the Platform to function. Your selection is saved in your browser and applies to this device only.

9. Current Cookie and Storage List

Below is the current list of cookies and browser storage items that may be used by Auric Artisan. Some names may vary depending on deployment configuration.

Name	Category	Purpose	Duration	Type
`aa_cookie_consent`	Essential	Stores your cookie and preference choices	Up to 1 year	First-party cookie or local storage
`aa_sid`	Essential	Maintains signed-in account session state; HttpOnly and secure where set by the auth worker	Up to 30 days, or until sign-out or expiry	First-party cookie
`aa_csrf`	Essential	Helps protect signed-in forms and auth requests from cross-site request forgery	Up to 30 days, or until sign-out or expiry	First-party cookie
`aa_theme`	Functional	Stores light or dark mode preference	Until changed or cleared	Local storage
`aa_eye_rest_interval`	Functional	Stores how often eye-rest reminders appear; a separate eyeRestDisabledForever flag remembers if you turned them off	Until changed or cleared	Local storage
`aa_lang`	Functional	Stores language or locale preference if language options are enabled	Until changed or cleared	First-party cookie or local storage
`aa_collection_usage`	Functional	Counts the tools you open, locally, so your most-used tools appear first	Until changed or cleared	Local storage
`/api/event`	Analytics	First-party page-view and tool-use events, sent only after you allow Analytics and never when Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control is on	Not stored on your device	Cookie-free first-party analytics
`Cloudflare Insights`	Analytics	Privacy-friendly aggregate performance and usage measurement, if enabled	Provider-controlled or cookie-free depending on configuration	Third-party infrastructure analytics
`Payment provider cookies`	Provider-controlled	May support fraud prevention, checkout, billing portal, subscription management, or payment confirmation when official payment flows are used	Provider-controlled	Third-party checkout or payment infrastructure
`Google AdSense`	Marketing	Serves ads on the site, only after you allow Marketing cookies; Google may set its own advertising cookies	Provider-controlled	Third-party advertising

10. Browser Instructions

In addition to the preferences panel above, you can control cookies and local storage directly through your browser:

Chrome — Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
Firefox — Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
Safari — Settings → Privacy → Manage Website Data
Edge — Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies

Warning: Disabling essential cookies or clearing local storage may reset preferences, interrupt tool sessions, or prevent some features from working correctly.

If you have questions about our use of cookies, contact us at [email protected] or visit our Privacy Policy.

11. Changes to This Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated periodically to reflect new tools, infrastructure changes, account availability, payment systems, analytics settings, or legal requirements.