What this site stores.

We would rather say this plainly than pad it out. If that changes — and it may, since a product in development eventually needs to understand how it is used — this page will be updated before anything goes live, and consent will be requested first where the law requires it.

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store, and which the browser sends back on later visits. It is how a site recognises that two visits came from the same browser.

Cookies are not the only mechanism of this kind, and a policy that only mentioned cookies would be misleading. The related technologies:

• Local storage — data kept in your browser that, unlike a cookie, is not automatically sent to the server. This site uses it for one preference.
• Session storage — the same idea, but cleared when you close the tab. This site uses it for one note, described in section 03.
• Pixels and beacons — a tiny invisible image or script whose only purpose is to report that you loaded a page. None here.
• Device and browser fingerprinting — identifying a visitor from the characteristics of their browser rather than from stored data. Not used, and not planned.
• Software development kits (SDKs) — the equivalent inside a mobile app. Relevant to the Companion App when it is released, not to this website.

A first-party cookie is set by the site you are visiting. A third-party cookie is set by another company whose code the site has embedded — and it is third-party cookies that do most of the cross-site tracking people object to.

The complete inventory for this website, in full:

That is the entire list. There is no third entry.

Three things that are not us

The early-access sign-up. When you press the button on the sign-up form, the email address, optional first name and interests you entered are sent to MailerLite, the email service we use to run the early-access list. Nothing is sent before you press it, no MailerLite script is loaded on this site, and no cookie is set. What happens to those details is set out in the Privacy Policy.

Web fonts. This site loads its typefaces — Cormorant Garamond and Frank Ruhl Libre — from Google Fonts. That request goes to Google's servers and Google may log it as an ordinary server request. No cookie is set by it, and it is not used to track you across sites. It is a genuine third-party request, so it is disclosed here rather than passed over.

Hosting. Serving a web page requires a server to receive the request. Our hosting provider may process ordinary request information — such as IP address and the page requested — in order to deliver the site and keep it secure. That is infrastructure rather than tracking, but it is processing, so it is stated.

These are the standard categories, with an honest statement of what DAOasis uses each for today. Naming them now means that if one is ever introduced, you can see exactly what changed.

No third party sets a cookie through this website. There is no embedded video player, no social widget, no chat widget, no advertising network and no analytics provider in it.

The one third-party request the site makes is for its web fonts, described in section 03.

If you follow a link from DAOasis to another company's website, that site's own cookies and policies apply from the moment you arrive. We have no control over them, and no visibility of them.

Since this site sets no cookies, there is nothing here to refuse. The controls below matter for the web generally, and will matter here if this page ever changes.

Clearing the one thing we do store

To remove the appearance preference, clear site data for this website in your browser settings, or use your browser's private browsing mode, in which nothing persists after you close the window. Removing it simply means the site opens in its default dark appearance next time.

Browser controls

Every major browser lets you view and delete stored data, block third-party cookies, block all cookies, and clear everything when you close it. These settings are found under Privacy, Security or Site settings, depending on the browser. Because those menus move between versions, we would rather point you to your browser's own current help pages than print instructions here that will be wrong within a year.

Blocking all cookies and local storage will break many websites. On this one, the only effect is that your appearance choice is forgotten.

Wider controls

Your browser may also offer a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal. This site does no tracking for those signals to switch off, so they make no difference here — but they are worth having switched on generally.

In many jurisdictions — including the UK and the EU — a website must obtain consent before setting anything that is not strictly necessary, and must make refusing as easy as accepting.

This website does not currently display a cookie banner, and does not currently need one, because it sets no cookies and runs no analytics. The stored items are a preference you set yourself by using the appearance control and a session-only note about the opening animation, which are the kind of thing consent requirements are designed to permit. The early-access form is something you choose to submit, not a tracking technology; agreeing to be emailed is part of that form, and is covered in the Privacy Policy.

There is no consent management platform on this site. That is an accurate reflection of there being nothing to consent to, rather than a gap. If analytics or any non-essential technology is introduced, a compliant consent mechanism will be implemented before it goes live — with genuine choice, refusal as easy as acceptance, and the ability to change your mind later. Status: Consent mechanism required before any analytics are added.

This page carries the date it was last updated. It will be revised whenever what the site stores changes — and in particular before any analytics or non-essential technology is introduced, not after.

The Companion App is a separate matter. When it is released, it will disclose its own storage and SDKs, and this page will be updated to cover it.

Questions about this page can go to info@daoasis.xyz, or through the Contact page. Broader questions about information handling are covered in the Privacy Policy.