LEGAL

Cookie Policy

Last updated: March 2026

Cookies are small text files your browser stores on our behalf. We use as few as we reasonably can, and we tell you exactly which ones. Names, purposes, durations.

1. What Are Cookies

A cookie is a small string of text a website asks your browser to remember. Some cookies expire when you close the tab; others stick around for days, months, or years. Some are strictly necessary to run the site; others are optional and help us measure how the product is doing.

In this document, we also use "cookies" loosely to mean similar client-side storage like localStorage, which behaves the same way from a privacy standpoint.

2. Cookies We Use

Here's the full inventory. If we add a new one, this table is the first place we update.

Name	Category	Purpose	Duration
`esyblog_session`	Essential	Keeps you signed in to your account.	30 days
`esyblog_csrf`	Essential	Protects form submissions from cross-site forgery.	Session
`esyblog_consent`	Essential	Remembers your cookie preferences.	12 months
`esyblog_locale`	Preferences	Remembers your language and region.	12 months
`esyblog_theme`	Preferences	Remembers light / dark / sepia reading mode.	12 months
`_eb_analytics`	Analytics	Anonymous aggregated usage (pages visited, time on page).	13 months

Essential cookies are required for EsyBlog to work and cannot be turned off. Preferences and Analytics cookies can be disabled from the cookie banner or your browser settings without breaking the product.

3. Third-Party Cookies

We try to keep the marketing site free of third-party cookies. Our analytics vendor is privacy-respecting and does not share data with advertising networks. Payment pages, when you reach them, may set cookies from our payment processor. Those are required to process your transaction securely and cannot be avoided without also declining to pay.

4. Managing Cookies

You can manage non-essential cookies in three ways:

Use the cookie banner that appears on your first visit, or click "Cookie settings" in the footer to revisit it.
Configure your browser to block or delete cookies. Every modern browser lets you do this; search for "cookie settings" in your browser's help docs.
Use private/incognito mode, which clears most cookies when the window closes.

Blocking essential cookies will break sign-in and form submissions. Blocking analytics cookies won't affect your experience.

5. Contact

Questions about cookies? Use our contact form. For the full picture of how we handle data, see the Privacy Policy.