Last updated: August 2026
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1. What Cookies Are
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store and hand back on later visits. It typically holds an identifier or a short preference value. Related technologies — local storage, session storage and pixel-sized tracking images — work differently but serve comparable purposes, and this policy covers them collectively. Cookies cannot read files on your device, access your storage or run programs; they only carry the small values written to them.
2. How We Use Cookies
solidexplorer.best is a reading site: articles, capability overviews and reference material. Our use of cookies is correspondingly narrow. We use them to remember that you have dismissed the cookie notice, to hold display preferences between pages, to keep the site stable and secure, and — where analytics is enabled — to count visits in aggregate so we know which guides deserve expansion. We do not use cookies to build advertising profiles or to identify you personally.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
- Essential cookies. Required for the site to function: load balancing, basic security measures, and remembering that the cookie banner has been acknowledged so it does not reappear on every page. These cannot be switched off without breaking normal browsing, and they are not used for tracking.
- Analytics cookies. Used to understand traffic in aggregate — page views, entry pages, rough session duration, broad device category. Reports are read as totals and trends; where the provider supports it, identifiers are truncated or anonymised. These are set only where you have consented, if consent is required in your region.
- Preference cookies. Remember non-essential choices such as a layout or reading option so the site behaves consistently when you return. They store a setting value, nothing more.
We do not use advertising, retargeting or cross-site profiling cookies on solidexplorer.best.
4. Managing Cookies
You are in control. Every mainstream browser lets you view stored cookies, delete them individually or entirely, block third-party cookies, and refuse new ones — usually under Settings, then Privacy or Site Data. Private or incognito windows discard cookies when the window closes. On Android, the same controls live in the browser's site settings, and you can clear storage for a single site rather than all of them.
Blocking essential cookies may cause notices to reappear on every page or reset preferences on each visit, but the informational content of the site remains readable.
5. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be set by services we rely on rather than by us directly — for example an analytics platform or a content delivery network. If a page embeds external media or links to a cloud provider's documentation, that third party may apply its own cookies once you interact with it. We do not control those files and recommend reviewing the relevant provider's own cookie and privacy notices. Our approach to data more broadly is described in the Privacy Policy.
6. Changes
If we add, remove or change the way we use cookies, this page will be updated and the date at the top revised. Where a change requires fresh consent, we will ask for it again through the site notice.
7. Contact
For questions about cookies or local storage on solidexplorer.best, email support@solidexplorer.best or use the details on our Contact page.