Cookies and Local Storage Notice

Cookies are small text files stored on your device by a website. Local storage, IndexedDB, and similar browser storage mechanisms can retain preferences, tool state, or media on your device. Session or technical identifiers may also be used by hosting, content delivery, and analytics infrastructure.

This Notice describes technologies that may be used on https://defaultfile.com and related Service pages. For broader privacy practices, see our Privacy Policy at https://defaultfile.com/legal/privacy.

India's Digital Personal Data Protection framework does not create a standalone cookie law, but cookies and similar technologies that process digital personal data are subject to applicable notice and consent requirements. In the EEA/UK, non-essential cookies generally require prior consent under ePrivacy rules read with the GDPR.

Strictly necessary / essential. Technologies required to provide a service you request, maintain security, load the site, or remember choices that are integral to a feature you actively use.

Functional / preference storage. Browser local storage, IndexedDB, or similar mechanisms used to remember preferences and local tool state. Examples include simplified language toggles, Color Lab saves, Stage Shot layout preferences, and local media used inside Stage Shot. These technologies support the feature you request and are not used to track you across unrelated third party sites.

URL state. Some tools place configuration data in the query string of the URL so that a design can be reopened or shared. This is not a cookie, but it can expose configuration details to anyone who receives the link.

Hosting and delivery. Our hosting provider or content delivery network may set strictly necessary cookies or process technical logs required to deliver pages securely and reliably.

Fonts and third party resources. The Service may load fonts or other resources from third party providers (including Google Fonts). Those providers may receive technical request data such as your IP address when resources are fetched.

Usage analytics. We use Firebase Analytics (Google Analytics for Firebase) for first party usage measurement. Analytics cookies or similar identifiers may be set or read to distinguish sessions or browsers, measure page views, and understand how the Service is used. Analytics is classified as non-essential. We do not use advertising or cross site tracking cookies on the Service.

Visitor count. We set a first party httpOnly cookie so we can count unique browsers and show an aggregate visitor total in the site footer. The cookie holds a random identifier. It is not used for advertising or cross site tracking.

Functional local storage may include site specific keys for simplified language preferences (UX Principles and UX Process), Color Lab saved labs, Stage Shot stage ratio, and Stage Shot timeline minimize state. Values remain on your device unless you clear them or the feature removes them.

Stage Shot may store screens, plates, logos, audio, and related media in IndexedDB on your device so compositions can be worked on locally. Clearing site data removes that local media.

When Firebase Analytics is configured for the deployment, the Service initializes analytics in the browser. The analytics provider may set cookies or use local storage and related identifiers under names commonly associated with Google Analytics or Firebase Analytics. We use this for usage measurement and product improvement, not for advertising on our behalf.

When the visitor counter is configured, the Service may set a first party cookie named df_vid after a browser loads the site. The server uses that cookie to count the browser once and to show an aggregate visitor total in the footer. Clearing site cookies may cause a later visit to be counted again.

We do not currently use local storage or IndexedDB to store passwords, payment card numbers, or government identifiers.

We do not currently set first party advertising cookies. Where applicable law requires consent or comparable choices before non-essential analytics cookies are set, we will implement those controls as required.

Essential and functional technologies required to deliver a feature you request may operate without optional consent where permitted by applicable law.

Usage analytics is non-essential. The visitor-count cookie is also non-essential. For marketing cookies or additional non-essential technologies that process personal data, and where consent is required for analytics in your jurisdiction, we will: (a) keep this Notice itemised with categories, purposes, and retention details we can state; (b) obtain consent or provide legally required choices before setting those technologies, where required; (c) allow withdrawal of consent that is no more difficult than giving it; and (d) keep records of consent where required for accountability.

We use essential and functional storage to operate the Service, remember settings, keep local tool media available, maintain security, and improve reliability. We use analytics to understand aggregate usage and improve the Service. We use a first party visitor cookie to maintain an aggregate unique-visitor total. Where applicable law distinguishes strictly necessary technologies from optional ones, essential technologies may be used without consent, while non-essential technologies will be handled in accordance with applicable requirements including India's DPDP Act (where personal data is processed) and EEA/UK ePrivacy and GDPR rules (where they apply).

You can clear cookies and site data through your browser settings. Doing so may reset preferences, remove local Stage Shot media, clear analytics identifiers, reset the visitor-count cookie, and affect how the Service functions.

Most browsers allow you to block third party cookies or all cookies. Blocking essential technologies may impair the Service. Blocking or clearing analytics cookies may limit our ability to measure usage.

Browser vendors publish instructions for managing cookies. For example, see support documentation for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, or your browser of choice. Steps vary by browser and device.

We cannot delete cookies, local storage, or IndexedDB from your device for you, because they are stored locally. After you change preferences, older cookies from prior settings may remain until you clear them manually.

If you share a configuration URL, recipients can view the encoded state. Treat share links as potentially public.

If you have questions about our use of these technologies, contact privacy@defaultfile.com.

Local storage preferences and IndexedDB media persist until you clear them or the feature removes them. Server side logs retained by hosting providers follow those providers' retention practices and our operational needs. Analytics cookie and identifier lifetimes follow the analytics provider's defaults and our Firebase / Google Analytics configuration. The visitor-count cookie lasts up to 400 days or until you clear site data. The aggregate visitor total is stored until we no longer operate the counter.

We may update this Notice when our use of cookies or similar technologies changes, including if consent controls, accounts, or Paid Plans are introduced. The "Last updated" date reflects the latest revision.

Questions about this Notice may be sent to privacy@defaultfile.com.

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