Cookies and storage
We don't track you.
Here is the proof.
This website sets no cookies at all.
No analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixels, no scripts from other companies. That is also why you are not being interrupted by a consent banner: there is nothing here for you to consent to.
What the site does keep is five small settings in your own browser — the language you picked, the light or dark look, and how far you got in the academy. Each one is written only when you press something. The complete list is below, and there is a button that wipes it.
What we checked, and when
On 31 July 2026 we went through this site request by request, the same way anyone else can, and wrote down what actually happens. Saying “we respect your privacy” costs nothing. This is the checkable version.
- No page on this site sends a
Set-Cookieheader. Not the home page, not the radio, not the academy. There are no first-party cookies and no third-party cookies. - There is no Google Analytics, no Google Tag Manager, no Meta or TikTok pixel, no Hotjar, no Plausible, no Matomo — no measurement tool of any kind, self-hosted or otherwise.
- Fonts, images, stylesheets and scripts all come from
stringsvibing.com. Nothing is pulled from a font CDN, an ad network or a social network, so no other company learns that you were here. - The only connections your browser makes outside this website go to our own broadcast server, and they are all ones you asked for: it asks what is playing, it fetches the audio when you press play, it loads the track list when you click into the “wish a song” box, and it sends your vote or your wish when you press the button. Nothing else, and nobody else.
- The only thing kept on your device is browser local storage, listed item by item in the next section.
If you want to confirm any of this yourself, open your browser's developer tools, look at the Network and Application tabs and reload the page. We would rather you checked than took our word for it.
Everything this site stores on your device
Local storage is a small notepad your browser keeps for each website. It differs from a cookie in one way that matters here: it is never attached to network requests. It stays inside your browser and is not sent to us or to anyone else. These five entries are the complete inventory.
| Name | Where | What it holds | Written when | Kept until |
|---|---|---|---|---|
sv-theme |
Everywhere with the light/dark switch — home page, academy, these legal pages. Not the radio page, which has no switch. | The word dark or light |
You press the light/dark switch | You delete it |
djm_lang |
Radio page | A two-letter code for the language you chose | You choose a language | You delete it |
wafer-lang |
Wafer Academy | The word en or cz |
You press the language button | You delete it |
wafer-progress |
Wafer Academy | A list of module numbers you have completed, for example module-07 |
You finish every section of a module | You delete it, or press Reset progress in the academy |
wafer-sections |
Wafer Academy module pages | A list of the individual sections you ticked off | You tick a section as read | You delete it. Reset progress in the academy clears the module list above, but not these ticks — so the honest answer is: until you clear this site’s data. |
That is the entire list. None of these contains your name, your e-mail address, an account, a device identifier or a random visitor number. Nothing links them together, nothing gives you an ID, and no script on this site reads them and sends them anywhere. If you open the site on a different browser or a different device, it knows nothing about you — because there is nothing to know.
Erase it, right now
This button removes the five entries above from this browser. Nothing else is touched, and nothing is sent anywhere — the deletion happens entirely on your device.
You can also do it without trusting our button. In every browser it lives under Settings → Privacy → clear browsing data / site data, or behind the padlock icon in the address bar, where you can choose to delete the data for this site only. In a private or incognito window everything is thrown away the moment you close it.
Deleting is harmless. You lose nothing but your language and colour choice, and — if you use the academy — the ticks marking what you have already read.
Why there is no consent banner
Because there is nothing to ask about, and we would rather explain that than put a pop-up in your way.
The rule that produced all those banners is Article 5(3) of the EU ePrivacy Directive. In the Czech Republic it lives in Section 89(3) of Act No. 127/2005 Coll., on electronic communications, which since 1 January 2022 (through amending Act No. 374/2021 Coll.) requires prior, demonstrable consent before a website stores information on your device or reads information already stored there. That is the strict opt-in rule.
The same provision contains its own exception, in its own words: the duty to obtain consent “does not apply to technical storage or access solely for the purpose of transmitting a message over an electronic communications network, or where it is necessary for the provision of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user”. Remembering the button you just pressed is that second case.
The clearest illustration is the regulator itself. The Czech data protection authority, the ÚOOÚ, publishes a cookie notice on its own website saying that the site uses only technical cookies and that, under Section 89(3), no consent is needed for them — and that site presents no consent bar, only the information. It does not, however, remove the duty to tell you what is stored. This page is how we meet that duty.
Everything we store is the setting you pressed a button to choose. Showing you a window that asks permission to remember the button you just clicked would be theatre. Worse, it would imply we are doing something we are not.
The honest caveat
We are not going to pretend this is beyond all argument. The reference guidance on this exemption — Opinion 04/2012 of the EU Article 29 Working Party — treats “remember my language” storage as exempt from consent for a browsing session or a little longer, and says that if a site remembers a preference for longer than that, it should say so clearly at the place where the choice is made. We keep your choice until you clear it, which is longer. So we say it here in plain words, and we point at this page from the site rather than burying it.
Where exactly the line sits for a preference stored indefinitely is a question we would want a lawyer to confirm rather than decide ourselves. If the answer is that we should ask, we will ask — the banner is already written and waiting, and turning it on is a one-line change. What we will not do is switch it on for show while there is nothing behind it.
What happens that is not storage
Two things about this site involve our server rather than your device, and it would be dishonest to leave them out of a page called “we don't track you”.
- The like / not-for-me buttons. Pressing one sends the name of the track that is playing to our server, so we learn what people enjoy. Nothing is written to your browser, there is no account and there is no visitor ID. What our server records — including the fact that, for now, it also records the IP address the vote came from — is set out in the privacy notice, section 7.
- The “wish a song” box. You can only pick a track that is already in our library, so typing in it first loads that list from our server. Pressing the button sends the track name so it can move up the queue. Nothing is written to your browser and the wish is not stored anywhere afterwards.
- Listening. When you press play, your browser connects to our broadcast server to fetch the audio, which reaches us through a Cloudflare tunnel. Any server you connect to necessarily sees your IP address — that is how the bytes find their way back to you. It is not stored on your device and we do not use it to recognise you.
We do not build profiles, and we do not sell or share what little we have.
What would change this
We are building a radio station and we would eventually like to know whether anyone is listening. If we ever add any of the following, we will switch on a consent banner before it runs, and Reject will be exactly as easy to press as Accept — same size, same place, one click:
- measurement that gives you an identifier of any kind — a cookie, a visitor ID, a fingerprint — even from a self-hosted, privacy-friendly tool, if it is configured that way;
- anything loaded from another company: an embedded video player, fonts from a font CDN, a map, a chat widget, a comment system, a social button;
- advertising, or content and recommendations personalised from your behaviour;
- connecting what you do here with what you do anywhere else.
Counting connections in our own server log — no identifier on your device, nobody followed from site to site — puts nothing on your device and therefore does not trigger a consent banner. If we do that, we will still write it on this page and describe it in the privacy notice, because you should not have to find out by accident.
Whatever changes, this page changes with it, on the same day.
The mobile apps
Cookies are a web-browser mechanism. Our apps — Tiny Strings Radio and the separate paid app Till the End — are not web pages and do not use cookies. What they keep on your phone is covered by the privacy notice, not by this page.
Who runs this site
Driveczech Group s.r.o.
Registered office: Korunní 2569/108, 101 00 Praha 10 – Vinohrady, Czech Republic
Company ID (IČO): 17383447
Managing director: Jan Štim
Telephone: +420 739 421 310
E-mail: [email protected]
If you have a question about anything on this page, or you think we have got something wrong, write to us. We would genuinely rather hear it than not.