SeanBot. Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 15. April 2026

This page covers cookies and browser storage for sean.bot.nu and the SeanBot dashboard. It sits alongside the Terms of Service & Privacy Policy, which covers what the bot stores on Discord; this page is only about your browser.

1. Cookies and this site

A cookie is a small file a site asks your browser to keep and send back with later requests. Sites use them for things like sign-in, preferences, and tracking. This policy says which of those, if any, apply here, because the answer is shorter than most cookie policies.

In short

  • This website sets no cookies at all.
  • The theme accent and palette you pick are kept in your browser's localStorage, not in a cookie, and are never sent to us.
  • We use no analytics, advertising, or tracking cookies or pixels.
  • The dashboard sets one essential session cookie after you sign in with Discord. Without it you cannot stay signed in.
  • That is the whole list, which is why this site shows no cookie banner.

1.1 Cookies on this website

sean.bot.nu is a static page. There is no login, no server-side session, and no personalisation stored on a server, so there is nothing for us to put in a cookie.

Three small values are stored in your browser instead. None is a cookie: they stay on your device, they are never sent to our servers, and nothing else can read them.

Name Stored in What it does Lasts until
seanbotAccent localStorage Remembers the theme accent you choose in the header colour picker, so every page opens with the accent you picked instead of the default gold. You clear site data for sean.bot.nu
seanbotPalette localStorage Remembers the palette you choose in the header menu, so every page opens with the surfaces you picked instead of the default Original. You clear site data for sean.bot.nu
seanbot.publicStats sessionStorage Caches the live server count for one minute, so the Communities card does not call the dashboard on every page view. You close the tab
seanbot.publicServers sessionStorage Caches the list of communities shown in the Communities deck for one minute, so that section does not call the dashboard on every page view. You close the tab

All three are strictly functional and exist only because they make the page work better for you. You can delete any of them at any time (see section 1.4), and the site keeps working without them: the accent falls back to gold and the two caches are simply filled again.

1.2 Third-party services the pages load

Loading a page here also means your browser requests a few files from other companies. The site serves its own typefaces, so no font request leaves this origin. We do not control the requests that do leave, and we do not receive anything back from them:

  • unpkg (unpkg.com) serves the Phosphor icon stylesheets.
  • Discord serves any community icon a card shows in the Communities section, when that card has one.
  • The SeanBot dashboard answers the request for the live server count. That request is anonymous: it sends no cookies and no credentials, and it asks only for a public total.

These are ordinary requests for files and data, not embedded widgets, and they do not set cookies in the context of our pages as far as we can tell. The providers do see your IP address and browser string while serving the request, and they handle that under their own privacy policies, not this one. If you block these requests, the site still works, though icons or the live count may be missing.

1.3 Cookies on the dashboard

The dashboard is the signed-in web panel for server admins and staff, and it runs at a different address from this site. It needs one cookie to work, and that is the only one it sets.

Name Stored in What it does Lasts until
session Cookie (strictly necessary) Keeps you signed in after you authorize with Discord, and carries the CSRF token that protects dashboard actions against cross-site requests. It is set as HttpOnly, Secure, and SameSite=Lax, so page scripts cannot read it, it is only sent over HTTPS, and it is not attached to cross-site requests. Eight hours have passed since sign-in, or you sign out

Signing in goes through Discord's own OAuth page on discord.com. Anything Discord stores in your browser during that step is a Discord cookie governed by Discord's policies, not this one. If you block the session cookie, the dashboard cannot keep you signed in; the rest of the site is unaffected.

Like this website, the dashboard sets no analytics, advertising, or "remember me" cookies, and no third-party tracker runs on it.

1.4 Managing cookies and site data

You are in control of everything described above, and none of it is required to read this site:

  • See what is stored. Open your browser's developer tools and use the Application (Chrome, Edge) or Storage (Firefox) panel. Cookies and storage for the current site are listed there.
  • Clear it. In your browser settings, find the cookies and site data section, search for sean.bot.nu and dashboard-seanbo.vercel.app, and delete what you find. Clearing the site data resets your theme accent to the default gold.
  • Block it. Blocking cookies for the dashboard means you will have to sign in again on every visit, or you may not be able to sign in at all. Blocking storage for this site only costs you the remembered accent and a slower live server count and Communities deck.
  • Private windows. Anything stored is discarded when the private window closes, and nothing about the site's behaviour changes while it is open.

1.5 Changes to this policy

If we ever add a cookie or a tracker that is not strictly necessary, this page and the date at the top will be updated before it goes live, and it will be opt-in rather than silent. Material changes follow the same notice period as the Terms of Service: at least 30 days, announced by the updated date on this page.

1.6 Contact

Questions about this page, or a request about your data, go to the same place as everything else: Discord DM @energetic_starfish_67605. Your data rights and the contact details for formal requests are set out in section 2.3 of the Terms of Service & Privacy Policy.