1. What cookies are
Cookies are small pieces of text a website stores in your browser and receives back on later visits. “Local storage” and “session storage” are similar browser features that keep data only in your browser; they aren’t sent to us. This policy covers all three.
2. Everything we store
| Name | Type | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| kr_session | Cookie | Keeps you signed in. Set on this site and on each forum’s own address when you sign in there. | 30 days, or until you sign out |
| kr_oauth_… | Cookie | Ties a sign-in to the browser that started it, so nobody else can complete it. | 5 minutes |
| kr-theme | Local storage | Remembers light or dark mode, if you chose one. | Until you clear it or choose “System” |
| kr-essential-cookies | Local storage | Remembers that you’ve seen the cookie notice, so it doesn’t keep appearing. | Until you clear it |
| kr-draft:… | Session storage | Keeps a post you’re writing if the page reloads. | Until you post, discard it, or close the tab |
kr-quote:… | Session storage | Carries a selected quote to the reply editor. | Until the reply editor opens or the tab closes |
3. Why we don’t ask for consent
Privacy law, including the EU ePrivacy rules and the GDPR, lets websites use cookies without consent when they are strictly necessary for a service you asked for, such as staying signed in, or when they only remember a choice you made. Everything above is in that category. That’s why our notice tells you about cookies instead of asking you to accept them: there is nothing optional to accept or reject. If we ever add optional cookies, we will ask for your consent first and you will be able to refuse them.
4. Sign-in providers
When you choose to sign in with Google, GitHub, Apple or your organisation’s single sign-on, you visit that provider’s own site for a moment. While there, it may set its own cookies under its own policies. Kosharoad never loads those providers’ scripts or cookies into our pages.
5. Controlling cookies
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block kr_session, you can still read every forum, but you won’t be able to sign in. Clearing site data also resets your theme and the cookie notice.
Forums on their own domains, such as rustforums.com, set their own copy of the session cookie on that domain. The same policy applies there.
6. Contact
Questions about cookies: hello@peragolabs.com.