Cookie Policy
1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains what A Cup of Crime stores on your device when you visit, why, and how to control it.
A Cup of Crime is deliberately light on tracking. It runs no advertising, no analytics package and no social-media pixel, so it has no reason to set tracking cookies. The only storage involved is local storage on your own device, described below, which the Site cannot read back once it is gone.
This policy supplements the Privacy Policy and should be read alongside it.
2. Cookies versus local storage — what the difference is
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to store and send back on later visits. Local storage is a more modern feature that lets a website store data directly on your device, where it stays until you clear it.
The Site does not set advertising, analytics or preference cookies. Everything it stores is through local storage — which is why this page talks mostly about that.
3. What the Site stores on your device
3.1 Your votes
When you rate a review with stars, or call its verdict fair or unfair, the Site stores a tiny marker on your device (for example acoc_vote_show_endeavour). It does this so your chosen stars stay lit and your verdict stays highlighted when you come back to the page. It is, in effect, a “you already voted this way” reminder, held entirely on your machine.
3.2 Your Top 5 list
If you use the Top 5 tool, the Site stores your chosen five shows (under a key like acoc_top5) so your list is still there when you return. Nothing about your list is sent to the Site’s server; it is kept only on your device.
4. What the Site collects on its server
The only data the Site’s server holds from your visit is a salted, one-way hash of your IP address, recorded when you cast a vote so the tallies cannot be inflated (details in the Privacy Policy). That is not stored on your device and is not a cookie.
5. Third-party requests
The Site loads its display fonts from Google Fonts, so when you view a page your browser requests those files from Google’s servers. Google’s handling of that request is governed by Google’s own privacy policy, not this one. The Site itself receives nothing from it and sets no cookies through it.
6. Managing and clearing site data
Because the Site’s storage all lives on your own device, clearing it is straightforward and harmless — you will simply need to re-pick a Top 5 or re-enter a vote.
Every browser lets you clear site data:
- Google Chrome — Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data.
- Mozilla Firefox — Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data.
- Microsoft Edge — Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Cookies and site data.
- Safari — Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data.
You can also open your browser’s developer tools and remove storage for a specific site, or browse in a private window so nothing persists once you close it.
Because the Site sets no cookies and keeps nothing except local storage on your machine, there is nothing to “opt out of” beyond clearing that storage — and no targeted advertising to decline.
7. Do Not Track
The Site does not track you across websites, so it has nothing to change in response to browser “Do Not Track” signals.
8. Changes to this policy
If the Site ever introduces cookies — for example, an analytics tool or a comments feature — this policy will be rewritten honestly to say what is set and why, with a new “last updated” date. Until then, what you see here is the whole picture.
9. Contact
David O’Connell
A Cup of Crime
Email: admin@acupofcrime.com
Phone: (631) 956 4581
10. Related policy
The Privacy Policy explains more about the limited information the Site holds and how you can exercise your rights over it.