Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies enable a website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

Why Cookies Are Used

Slug Generator uses cookies and similar technologies to enhance your user experience, guarantee the security of our services, and analyze how our website is utilized. We believe in being transparent about our data practices, which is why we strictly categorize the types of cookies we use and their specific purposes.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions.

• Routing & Security: We use a Content Delivery Network (Cloudflare) which may place an essential cookie (e.g., __cfduid or similar routing tokens) to identify trusted web traffic, mitigate malicious activity, and route your request to the nearest edge server for optimal performance. These are strictly necessary for security and performance.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies allow our website to remember choices you make when you use the tool, providing a more personalized and seamless experience.

• Tool Preferences: When you modify settings in the Slug Generator (such as choosing a custom separator, toggling emoji removal, or setting a maximum length), we may store these preferences in your browser's local storage or a functional cookie. This ensures that the next time you visit, your preferred settings are already loaded, saving you time.
• Theme Selection: If you toggle between light mode and dark mode, a functional cookie or local storage key will remember this preference for subsequent visits.

Analytics Cookies

We are committed to privacy and do not use invasive third-party analytics cookies that track your browsing behavior across other websites. We do not use Google Analytics or similar invasive trackers. Any analytics we gather are purely server-side (counting total page hits and bandwidth usage) which do not require dropping tracking cookies on your device.

Advertising Cookies

Slug Generator is currently a free, ad-free utility. We do not use any advertising cookies, tracking pixels, or retargeting technologies. We do not sell your data to third parties, nor do we profile your interests to serve advertisements.

Third-Party Cookies

Because we rely on Cloudflare for global asset delivery and DDoS protection, Cloudflare may set strictly necessary cookies to perform these security and routing functions. However, we do not embed third-party social media widgets (like Facebook Like buttons) or third-party comment systems (like Disqus) that would introduce unnecessary third-party tracking cookies into your browser.

Cookie Duration

The length of time a cookie will stay on your browsing device depends on whether it is a "persistent" or "session" cookie.

• Session cookies: These cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser (or once your session ends).
• Persistent cookies: These cookies stay on your device until they expire or are deleted. For example, a cookie storing your tool preferences might be set to expire after 30 or 90 days.

Browser Cookie Controls

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like your preferred slug separator.

You can find information on how to manage cookie settings on the most popular browsers here:

• Google Chrome
• Apple Safari
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Edge

If you do not want your browser preferences to be saved by our tool, you can simply clear your browser's local storage or use your browser's "Incognito" or "Private" browsing mode.

Consent

By continuing to use our website without changing your browser's cookie settings, you consent to our use of strictly necessary and functional cookies as described in this policy. Because we do not use invasive tracking or advertising cookies, explicit opt-in banners are not deployed, in accordance with the ePrivacy Directive exemptions for strictly necessary functional cookies.

Changes to Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this page indicates when it was last updated.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us via our Contact Page.