Cookies
Timelines Cookies and Storage
What the archive and its panel store in your browser, what is requested from other servers and why your permission is not needed.
The archive sets no cookies
timelines.profblu.com sets no cookies, carries no advertising pixels and does not measure visits. The typefaces are served from this same server, not from Google Fonts. It stores three things in your browser, and none of them is a cookie:
| What is stored | What for | How long | Is your permission needed? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whether you pressed «Still» | so that pages do not move the next time you come back | in your browser, until you press it again or delete it | No, it is a preference you choose |
| Whether you answered «Not now» to the prompt to install the archive as an app | not to show you the prompt again while you stay in that tab | in your browser, only while the tab is open | No, it is essential to respect your answer |
| The home page, the icons and the last pages you read (sixty at most) | to open the archive and reread those pages offline | in your browser, until you delete it; the oldest go away on their own as new ones come in | No, it is essential for offline reading to work |
What you choose on each page —the lens, the chapter, the open gallery— is not stored anywhere: it goes in the page address or lives in the browser's memory while the page is open.
The copies of pages you read never include videos, images from other servers or anything that comes from YouTube.
What is requested from other servers
| What | From whom | When | What it receives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photographs and freely licensed clips | Wikimedia Commons (upload.wikimedia.org) | when you open the page that contains them | your IP address and your browser details. Photographs are requested without cookies and without saying which page you are reading; clips, like any video, say they come from timelines.profblu.com but not from which page |
| The still frame of a YouTube video | YouTube (i.ytimg.com) | when you open the page that contains it | your IP address and your browser details, without cookies and without saying which page you are reading |
| The player of a YouTube video | YouTube (www.youtube-nocookie.com) | only when you click the video | whatever YouTube collects from a player, under its policy (policies.google.com/privacy): it may store data in your browser from that moment |
Until you click a video, nothing from the YouTube player is loaded. Clicking is your decision to watch it there.
In the panel
The panel my.timelines.profblu.com is used only by the team that writes the archive, and stores the same as every panel on the platform:
| What is stored | What for | How long | Is your permission needed? |
|---|---|---|---|
| What keeps your session open without typing your password again | not to ask for your password on every page | in your browser, until you delete it; it stops working when you sign out | No, it is essential for this to work |
| Which organisation you are working with | to show you that organisation's data | in your browser, until you delete it | No, it is essential for this to work |
| The language you chose | to show you the panel in that language | in your browser, until you delete it | No, it is essential for this to work |
| The appearance you chose (light or dark) and whether you left the side menu collapsed | to open the panel the way you left it | in your browser, until you delete it | No, it is essential for this to work |
| A single-use value that completes sign-in and is deleted as soon as it finishes | to let you in with your platform account | in your browser, only while the tab is open; in practice, the seconds sign-in takes | No, it is essential for this to work |
| The filters you left set on a table | not to make you set them again | in your browser, until you delete it | No, it is essential for this to work |
The panel does not measure visits or load anything from third parties either.
Why we do not ask for consent
Everything stored is strictly necessary to give you what you yourself asked for: reading without motion, rereading offline, not repeating a prompt, signing in to the panel. That is exactly what is exempt from consent under Article 122 of the Italian Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali and Article 22(2) of the Spanish LSSI, which transpose the same European rule. The YouTube player is only loaded when you ask for it with a click.
How to delete it
From your browser settings, like any other site data. If you delete the data of timelines.profblu.com, the pages saved for offline reading are deleted too. In the panel, deleting what keeps the session open signs you out.
Technical detail, for those who want it
The exact names under which each thing is stored:
| Exact name | What it is |
|---|---|
timelines:quieto (localStorage) | the «Still» preference |
timelines.pwa.install-dismissed (sessionStorage) | the «Not now» of the install prompt |
timelines-shell-v1, timelines-pages-v1 (Cache Storage, kept by the service worker /sw.js) | the home page, the icons and the pages you read, for offline reading |
admin-timelines.admin.rt (localStorage) | what keeps the panel session open |
admin-timelines.admin.org (localStorage) | which organisation you are working with |
timelines.admin.lang (localStorage) | the language you chose in the panel |
@prosecco/admin-shell.theme, @prosecco/admin-shell.sidebar (localStorage) | the light or dark appearance and the side menu |
identity.pending-authorization (sessionStorage) | the single-use value that completes sign-in to the panel |
timelines.admin.*-filters, one per table (localStorage) | the filters you left set |