Cookie policy.

1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file stored by your browser. We use a small set of cookies to keep you signed in and to understand product usage in aggregate.

2. The cookies we use

Essential

• Firebase Auth session — keeps you signed in.
• diaspora_user (localStorage) — caches your display name and avatar so the nav doesn't flash on page load.

Analytics (Firebase Analytics & Google Analytics)

• _ga, _gid — anonymous user counting.
• Firebase IID — anonymized device identifier for aggregate metrics.

Preferences

• theme — your color-mode preference if set.
• locale — your country/city dropdown selection.

3. What we don't do

We don't use third-party advertising trackers. We don't sell or share cookie data with advertisers.

4. Controlling cookies

You can disable cookies in your browser settings. Disabling essential cookies will sign you out and make some features unavailable. To opt out of Google Analytics specifically, install the Google Analytics Opt-out add-on.

5. Changes

We will keep this page in sync with the cookies we actually deploy. If we add new categories (for example, advertising cookies), we'll surface a banner at the top of the site asking for your consent first.

6. Contact

Cookie questions: privacy@diaspora.app.