Cookie policy
This site sets no cookies. This page exists so you can verify that rather than take it on trust.
Last updated: 22 August 2026
What a cookie is, briefly
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep, so it can recognise you when you return or as you move between pages. Several other technologies do the same job by different means: local storage, session storage, tracking pixels, and device fingerprinting.
What this site uses
None of them.
There are no cookies, no local or session storage, no pixels, no fingerprinting and no third-party scripts. Nothing is written to your device beyond the ordinary browser cache holding the page, the stylesheet and the fonts so that the site loads faster next time. That cache is managed entirely by your browser and contains nothing about you.
| Technology | Used here | Why not |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary cookies | No | The site holds no session state, so there is nothing to remember |
| Preference cookies | No | No settings persist between visits |
| Analytics cookies | No | We use no analytics at all |
| Advertising cookies | No | There is no advertising on this site |
| Local or session storage | No | Your text is held in memory only, then discarded |
| Tracking pixels | No | No images or scripts are loaded from third parties |
| Device fingerprinting | No | No profiling of any kind |
Why there is no banner
Consent banners exist to satisfy the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations and the EU e-Privacy Directive, which require consent before storing or accessing information on your device, except where it is strictly necessary to deliver a service you asked for.
Because nothing is stored, nothing requires consent, and a banner would be asking you to agree to something that does not happen. If that ever changes, a consent mechanism will appear before any such technology is used, and declining will not restrict access to any tool.
Checking for yourself
This takes about thirty seconds and is worth doing on any site that makes claims like these.
- Open your browser's developer tools, usually F12 or Cmd+Option+I.
- Go to the Application or Storage panel and look at cookies and local storage for this domain. Both should be empty.
- Open the Network panel and reload. Every request should be to counter-word.com and nowhere else.
- Type into a counter with the Network panel open. No new requests should appear at all.
The embeddable widget
The widget you can place on your own site follows the same rules: no cookies, no storage, no third-party requests. Embedding it does not create a consent obligation for your visitors, which is one of the reasons it was built that way.
For everything else about data, see the privacy policy. Questions to contact@counter-word.com.
Common questions
Really no cookies at all?
None. You can confirm it in your browser's storage panel in a few seconds, which is a better basis for believing it than this sentence.
Will you add analytics later?
If we do, it will be a cookieless, aggregate service that does not identify individuals, and this page and the privacy policy will be updated before it goes live.