Cookies and storage on your device
Version 1.5. Effective from 26 October 2026.
At a glance
- No advertising cookies, and no tracking across other websites.
- One cookie keeps you signed in. The rest are small notes the browser keeps so the app works.
- Analytics that follow your use of the app run only if you say yes.
This page lists every one, what it is for, and whether signing out clears it. Strictly necessary storage needs no consent. Anything that follows you as a person does. Anonymous statistics sit between the two: we tell you, and you can turn them off.
How you found us is read from the link you joined with. No cookie. See the privacy notice.
Essential: needed for Dishcourse to work
No consent. Without these you could not sign in, keep a draft, or use Your Taste Map.
| Name | Kind | What it holds | How long | Cleared when you sign out? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
sb- | Cookie | Your sign-in session. | Until you sign out, or 400 days | Yes |
sb- | Cookie | A one-time code while you confirm your email or reset a password. | Until that step completes | Yes |
dc. | Local storage | Your analytics choice, so we do not ask again. | Until you change it | No: it is a choice about this browser, not about you |
dc. | Local storage | Whether you have opted out of anonymous statistics. | Until you change it | No: it is a choice about this browser, not about you |
dishcourse. | Session storage | The ingredients you have picked and what you typed, while you move around the app. | Until you sign out or close the tab | Yes |
dc. | Session storage | Your last few orders sent to the kitchen, including what you typed, so the recipes page can read them without putting your words in the web address. | Until you sign out or close the tab | Yes |
dishcourse. | Session storage | Your last few orders in this tab, including what you typed, so asking again for the same thing counts as the same request. | Until you sign out or close the tab | Yes |
dc. | Session storage | Your answers so far in the weekly shop questions, so a reload does not lose them. | Until the plan arrives, you sign out, or the tab closes | Yes |
dc. | Session storage | The Taste Map answers in this tab, and a scrambled code made from your diet and bans so answers are thrown away when those change. | Until you sign out or close the tab | Yes |
dc. | Session storage | The ingredients you have looked up on Your Taste Map in this tab. | Until you sign out or close the tab | Yes |
dc. | Local storage | Your favourite ingredients on Your Taste Map, so it opens quickly. The name holds your account's random ID and a scrambled code made from your diet and bans. | Refreshed after 24 hours | Yes |
dishcourse. | Local storage | Which lines of a shopping list you have ticked. Ticks only, no item names. | 24 hours after you last touched it | No: it holds nothing about you |
Preferences
How you like the app to look. No consent. No personal information, so they stay when you sign out.
| Name | Kind | What it holds | Cleared when you sign out? |
|---|---|---|---|
dc. | Local storage | Up to ten recent star ingredients, so the experimental card does not repeat itself. | No |
dc. | Local storage | Whether the recipe view uses large type. | No |
dc. | Local storage | Whether measurements are converted. | No |
Anything above that does hold something of yours is cleared when you sign out.
Anonymous statistics: on by default, easy to turn off
We count visits and page speed without cookies and without identifying you. Vercel does the counting. A scrambled form of the request is thrown away after 24 hours, so a visit cannot be tied to you. Addresses are stripped of anything you typed before they are counted.
Turn this off for this browser here. The same switch is in Account. Off stores one preference, dc., so we remember.
Anonymous statistics. We count visits and page speed without cookies or identifying you.
Product analytics: off unless you turn it on
If you allow it, when you join, here or in Account, we record which parts you use, how fast pages load on your device, and a view of the session, with what you type hidden. PostHog, in Germany, holds that. An AI service, Google in the United States, may review that view for PostHog to help us find problems. Your name, email, ingredients, cravings, diet and allergies are not sent. The only identifier is your account's random ID. Its keys in this browser, names beginning ph_, are removed when you turn this off or sign out. Events are kept 12 months. Replays are kept 30 days. AI review notes are kept 12 months. Saying no costs you nothing.
Questions
Email headchef@dishcourse.net. Our privacy notice covers the rest.