Cookie and Web Storage Policy

What are Cookies and Web Storage Technologies?

This Cookie Policy informs you about the use of HTTP cookies and HTML5 Local Storage, web beacons and similar technologies by TallyCounter Pro (https://tallycounter.pro/) during your access to our on-line tools. Every file or data point stored on your device is in our opinion 100% transparent.

An HTTP Cookie is a small text file that is placed on your Web browser by a Web site you visit. Cookies help web servers remember your session preferences, maintain your visual theme of choice and offer aggregated analytics. HTML5 Local Storage is a relatively new browser feature that can be used to store key and value pairs of data on your device as part of a web application, without sending that data over the network each time you request it from the server.

The HTML5 Local Storage is used to store the count for each counter.

TallyCounter Pro is different from traditional cloud-based databases that monitor your browsing activity on other servers, it uses HTML5 Local Storage as its main focus and provides you with a fast and private experience:

Counter State Persistence:

If you're using the Simple Counter, Multiple Counter or Tasbih Counter, the counter state, counter intervals and labels used are saved on your device as keys such as tcp_simple_counter and tcp_multiple_counters_data.

Theme Preferences:

Your Dark Mode/ Light Mode choice is stored in Local Storage as tallycounter_theme; this means that your theme is remembered from page to page.

Audio and Vibration Preferences:

Your sound toggle (muted vs unmuted) settings will be stored locally, thus eliminating the need to change your audio settings each time you log in.

Below are three types of cookies used on TallyCounter Pro.

We have three categories of cookies that operate on our domain:

A) Strictly Necessary & Functional Cookies are essential for navigating the site and maintaining its security and usability.

The cookies are required for the basic technical functioning of the site, such as for the secure authentication and management of administrator sessions and for the retention of basic session state information. The cookies are not used for the purpose of collecting information of a personal nature and are not disabling, as the capability to disable them would make the basic functioning of the Website impossible.

B. Analytical & Performance Cookies

We use only minimal server-side analytics, in accordance with the privacy rules, in order to log anonymous visitor data including the number of visits per day, estimated Unique Visitors, top referrals and browsers. This combined data enables our development team to pinpoint performance bottlenecks, keep an eye on server capabilities, and enhance site loading times.

C. Third-Party Advertising Cookies (Google AdSense): These are cookies installed by third parties for advertising purposes.

To keep our counting software free for use of all users worldwide we work together with Google Adsense to display the relevant advertising banners:

Cookies (including DoubleClick cookies) are used by Google and third party advertising companies for advertising purposes based on accessing the TallyCounter Pro site and other sites on the Internet.

To comply with the European and UK Data Protection laws, users in EEA, UK and Switzerland are shown a consent popup to accept or reject cookies for personalised advertising.

4. How to manage, disable and delete cookies

You can choose whether or not to accept cookies and local storage. There are ways to block cookies, or to be warned before the cookie is set, or to get rid of cookies altogether. See the official Web browsers' help documents for details:

Third-Party Cookies in Google Chrome: Settings › Privacy and Security › Third-Party Cookies.

Apple Safari: Preferences › Privacy › Block All Cookies / Manage Website Data.

Mozilla Firefox: Options › Privacy & Security › Cookies and Site Data.

Microsoft Edge: Settings › Cookies and Site Permissions › Manage and Delete Cookies.

Note: Please remember that the counter tallies you have stored on your browser will be lost if you delete Cookies and Site Data / Local Storage. Before cleaning Browser storage, make sure that you export a JSON or CSV Backup first.

5. Updates to This Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be from time to time updated as a result of technical developments or changes in the law. Any changes will be posted on this page with a new date and time.

6. Cookie Related Questions

If you wish to know more about how we use cookies and/or storage on the Web, please send us a message at:

Email: privacy@tallycounter.pro

In this chapter, you'll get a complete overview of the different types of web storage available, as well as an introduction to HTTP Cookies.

While many people on the internet know about traditional browser cookies, they may not know about other client-side storage architectures like HTML5 Web Storage (Local Storage and Session Storage) or IndexedDB. The traditional HTTP cookies were designed in the early 1990s as little bits of text that are passed automatically between the browser and remote web server in an HTTP header. Cookies are sent with each and every asset requested (e.g. images, stylesheets, and scripts) across the Internet, and therefore have a significant impact on network overhead and bandwidth usage.

Modern Web browsers have adapted to this inefficiency by providing Local Storage on the client device in HTML5, allowing Web apps to save up to 5 to 10 megabytes of structured data, without ever sending it over network channels, and directly on the client device within the browser sandbox. This architectural benefit is what TallyCounter Pro leverages: Your counter names, numeric values, step intervals, and session history are located only on your device. No server network overhead is used to read your counter digits and your counts aren't accessible by external parties across network connections.

8. User Rights in relation to Tracking Technologies & Opt-Out Mechanisms

There are international privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the EU ePrivacy Directive, that give users the ability to limit commercial tracking and personalized marketing. It is possible to use the industry-standard opt-out solutions in place by the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) (optout.networkadvertising.org), the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) (optout.aboutads.info) and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) (youronlinechoices.eu) to opt out of third-party advertising cookies for all web browsing sessions.