Strua — Cookie Policy

Strua does not set cookies

Not "only essential ones." None.

Loading strua.app sets zero cookies. Signing in sets none either — your session is kept in your browser's own storage rather than in a cookie. Our analytics set none. There is no advertising or cross-site tracking technology on this site to set one; what our cookieless analytics do receive is set out in the Privacy Policy and the Consumer Health Data Notice.

Then why does this page exist

Three reasons.

Because Stripe sets cookies when you pay. If you open checkout, Stripe sets its own cookies to process the payment and detect fraud. Those are Stripe's, governed by Stripe's terms, and they are set when you open checkout or your billing portal (both Stripe-hosted pages) — not merely by browsing the site, and not if you never go near them. See Stripe's cookie settings and privacy policy. Stripe acts partly on our instructions and partly as an independent controller for its own fraud-prevention and legal-compliance purposes.

Because Cloudflare runs a human check on the sign-in forms. The check (Turnstile, on the sign-up, sign-in, email-verification, password-reset and account-deletion forms and the clinician application form) runs in Cloudflare's own frame from challenges.cloudflare.com under Cloudflare's privacy policy. Turnstile can be configured to place a clearance cookie on a site; as ours was configured on the day this policy took effect, it placed none on strua.app (we checked the sign-up page directly). What it stores on Cloudflare's own domain is Cloudflare's, and Cloudflare also uses what it receives to improve its bot-detection service.

Because "no cookies" is not the same as "nothing is stored." It is the more important half of the story, and a cookie policy that omitted it would be technically true and practically misleading.

What Strua stores in your browser instead

Strua keeps your work in your browser's own storage — localStorage and IndexedDB — rather than in cookies. That includes:

• your entries, reflections, mood check-ins, journal and worry dumps
• your sign-in session
• your preferences and settings

This is not a workaround. It is the point: through ordinary use of the tools, the app does not transmit what you write, so it has to live somewhere on your device.

Two consequences worth knowing.

Clearing site data deletes your writing. If you clear stored site data for strua.app in your browser, your entries go with it, and we cannot recover them because we never had them. Export anything you want to keep first. This is the single most important sentence on this page.

Local is not the same as private from everyone. Anyone who can use your device and browser profile can open your entries. If you share a computer, use a separate browser profile.

Managing what is stored

• Chrome / Edge: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and site data
• Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
• Safari: Settings → Safari → Advanced → Website Data

Blocking or clearing Strua's storage will sign you out and remove your entries. Blocking Stripe's cookies may prevent a purchase from completing.

Analytics

Our analytics provider, Plausible, sets no cookies and does not follow you between sites.

Cookieless does not mean nothing is received: serving any page means the provider gets the technical data every browser sends, including your IP address, which it turns into a rotating daily identifier and does not retain. Page addresses are rewritten in your browser first, so an address that would name a tool, meditation or ritual arrives as a generic placeholder; public pages on the site are counted by their own address.

The fuller account, including how referral tags are filtered and how we treat analytics under Washington's health-data law, is in the Consumer Health Data Notice.

Children

Strua is for adults 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has created an account, email Dr.G@strua.app and we will delete it.

Changes

If this policy changes materially we will tell you before the change takes effect and update the date above. Previous versions are kept and available on request.

Strua, LLC · Dr.G@strua.app · Florida, United States.

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