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Cookie policy

This website stores nothing on your device

novatren.online sets no cookies at all. Not advertising cookies, not analytics cookies, not “strictly necessary” cookies, not a cookie to remember that you dismissed a banner. It also writes nothing to localStorage, sessionStorage or IndexedDB, and it loads no file from any third-party server. There is nothing stored, so there is nothing to manage.

1. Why there is no consent banner

Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC (the ePrivacy Directive), as implemented in Czech law by Act No. 127/2005 Coll. on electronic communications, requires your consent before a website stores information on, or gains access to information already stored on, your device — with a narrow exemption for what is strictly necessary to deliver a service you asked for.

That requirement is triggered by storing or reading something on your device. This website does neither. Consequently there is nothing for you to consent to, and a banner asking you to consent to nothing would be theatre. We removed the collection instead of adding a dialogue box about it.

The same reasoning applies under the GDPR: with no identifiers set and no data collected, there is no processing of personal data to have a legal basis for. See the privacy policy for the one genuine exception, which is short-lived technical server logs held by our hosting provider.

2. What a cookie is, and what we are not doing with them

A cookie is a small piece of text a website asks your browser to store and send back on every subsequent request. That is how sites recognise a returning browser. The same recognition can be achieved with localStorage, with sessionStorage, with IndexedDB, or by fingerprinting — combining characteristics of your browser and device into an identifier without storing anything at all.

We use none of these techniques. Specifically, this site contains:

3. The one piece of JavaScript on this site, and what it does

There is exactly one script, served from this domain at /js/cta.js. You can read the whole thing; it is about sixty lines and it is commented. It does two things:

  1. If the address you arrived on already contains a campaign parameter — something like utm_source or a click identifier — it copies that parameter onto partner links so the click can be attributed to the right campaign. It reads only the address bar of the page you are already on. It stores nothing and sends nothing anywhere.
  2. It re-applies rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" and the referrer policy to those links after rewriting them, so that a rewritten link is never less disclosed than the markup it came from.

It contains no call to document.cookie, localStorage, sessionStorage, indexedDB, fetch, XMLHttpRequest or navigator.sendBeacon. The site works correctly with JavaScript switched off entirely.

4. How to verify this yourself

Do not take our word for it. This takes about a minute in any modern desktop browser.

Check for cookies

  1. Open this page and press F12 (or Ctrl+Shift+I; on a Mac, Cmd+Option+I) to open developer tools.
  2. In Chrome or Edge, go to the Application tab, then Storage → Cookies in the left sidebar. In Firefox, go to the Storage tab, then Cookies. In Safari, enable the Develop menu in Settings → Advanced, then use Web Inspector → Storage.
  3. Select https://novatren.online. The list will be empty.
  4. In the same panel, check Local Storage, Session Storage and IndexedDB. Those will be empty too.

Check that nothing is loaded from a third party

  1. With developer tools open, go to the Network tab.
  2. Reload the page with Ctrl+F5 (Cmd+Shift+R on a Mac).
  3. Look at the Domain column — you may need to enable it by right-clicking the column headers. Every single request will be to novatren.online. There will be no request to any font, analytics, advertising or CDN host.
  4. Check the Response Headers of the document request. There is no Set-Cookie header.

Check the source

Press Ctrl+U to view the page source. There are no tracking tags, and the only script is the local one described above, which you can read in full at /js/cta.js.

5. What happens when you leave this site

This policy covers novatren.online only. When you follow a partner link or any other external link, you arrive at a website run by a different company, and that company's cookies and tracking apply. Vendors and affiliate networks routinely set cookies to attribute a sale; that happens on their domain, under their policy, after you have left ours. We do not control it and we receive no personal data from it. Read their cookie and privacy policies before entering anything on their site.

6. Controlling cookies generally

Although you have nothing to block here, every major browser lets you view, block and delete cookies and site data for any site you visit, usually under Settings → Privacy. Browsers also offer a setting to block third-party cookies by default, which is worth turning on for the rest of the web.

7. Changes

If we ever introduced anything that stored information on your device, this page would be updated before it went live and the appropriate consent mechanism would be implemented at the same time. Any such change would be material and would be stated plainly here.

Questions: info@novatren.online.