Cookie & Local Storage Policy

IPasteIt may partner with third-party advertising networks, including Google AdSense, to display non-intrusive advertisements supporting our hosting and bandwidth costs: • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to ipasteit.bond or other websites. • Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. • You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings (https://adssettings.google.com) or AboutAds (https://www.aboutads.info). • Essential operations such as anonymous paste creation, burn-after-reading, and curl streaming do not require advertising cookies.

When you log in to an authenticated IPasteIt account, our authentication provider sets an encrypted HTTP-only session cookie (e.g. 'sb-access-token'). This cookie is strictly necessary to maintain your authenticated state across page requests. It is flagged Secure, HttpOnly, and SameSite=Lax.

To provide a high-performance, developer-tailored experience, we store non-sensitive interface preferences in your browser's localStorage: • 'ipasteit-theme': Saves your visual appearance preference ('dark' vs 'light'). • 'ipasteit-editor-settings': Retains soft-wrap, tab size (2 vs 4 spaces), and syntax preferences in memory so you don't need to reconfigure the editor on every visit. • Anonymous Management Tokens: If saved by your browser, management tokens allow you to retain edit and deletion authority over your anonymous pastes without logging in.

You can purge localStorage and cookies at any time through your browser's Developer Tools or Settings menu (Clear Site Data for ipasteit.bond). The core editor and raw endpoints will continue to function seamlessly without persistent cookies.