Cookie Policy

This is a current-state page. It describes what ChristmasCountdown.io stores in your browser today, not what a site like this one could store in future.

Optional Google Analytics cookies

Google Analytics 4 (GA4), measurement ID G-GJQFRNDN9E, helps us understand aggregate usage and improve the site. Analytics is optional. Until you choose Accept analytics, no Google tag loads and no analytics request is sent. Decline leaves analytics off. You can reopen Cookie settings in the footer at any time to accept or decline. Closing the choice without accepting leaves analytics off on a first visit.

After acceptance, GA4 may set cookies such as _ga and _ga_GJQFRNDN9E to distinguish browsers and sessions. Analytics includes visited pages and titles, referring pages, interactions, timestamps, browser and device details, language, approximate location and cookie identifiers. Google receives your IP address as part of technical requests but GA4 does not log or store individual IP addresses. Google supplies the analytics service; read Google's Privacy Policy and Google's information about partner sites.

Withdrawing consent stops future analytics by reloading the page without the Google tag. We remove accessible Google Analytics cookies for this site; cookies outside our access can be removed through your browser settings. Withdrawal does not erase data already sent to Google. We do not offer marketing or advertising consent here and do not load Google Tag Manager. Pages that reserve advertising space are house promotion pointing at our advertising page, and they load no third-party code.

Browser storage the site does use

Some features remember a choice so the site is usable across visits. These use localStorage, which is browser storage on your own device rather than a cookie, and the values never leave your browser:

• your analytics consent choice, accepted or declined, under christmas-analytics-consent,
• the snow animation on or off preference,
• progress inside interactive tools, for example ticked items in the Christmas checklist.

Clearing your browser storage removes them. You lose only the saved preference, nothing else.

Technical cookies from hosting

Our hosting and content delivery layer may set strictly technical cookies needed to deliver and protect the site. These are not used to profile you or to build an advertising audience.

Links to other sites

When you follow a link to an outside site, that site can set its own cookies under its own policy. That happens after you leave this site and is outside our control.

If this changes

If our use of cookies or browser storage changes, we will update this page and the privacy policy to describe those changes.