Cookie information
lumenrec.com sets no cookie of its own. One value is kept in the local storage of your browser so that the information notice at the bottom of the page is not repeated on every visit, and Cloudflare, the network that delivers these pages, may set service cookies of its own. That is the whole list, and this page describes it in full.
1. What is stored on your device
| Name | Category | Purpose | Duration | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lumen.cookiePref | Strictly necessary preference (local storage, not a cookie) | Remembers that you answered the information notice, so it is shown once instead of on every page | Until you clear the site data in your browser | First party, written by this site, never sent to a server |
| __cf_bm | Security | Set by Cloudflare where its bot management is active, to tell an ordinary browser from automated traffic | About thirty minutes, renewed while browsing | Third party, Cloudflare, Inc. |
| cf_clearance | Security | Set by Cloudflare after a protection challenge has been passed, so the check is not repeated at every request | Up to one year, at the provider’s setting | Third party, Cloudflare, Inc. |
No other value is written. There is no advertising identifier, no visitor identifier, no cross-site tag and no social network widget on any page of this site.
2. What the site does not use
There is no analytics account behind these pages: no page-view counter of the operator’s own, no heat map, no session recording and no A/B testing tool. Nothing measures which entry you read. The operator learns about traffic only from the technical logs of the providers, described in the privacy information.
3. What Cloudflare may add
Cloudflare is used as a content delivery network and as protection for the site. Besides the cookies listed above, its platform can insert a small performance script into the delivered page to report loading measurements to the network account. That insertion is made by the provider, not by the editorial pages, and it collects timing figures rather than anything identifying a reader. It is named here because a reader who inspects the page may see it and deserves an honest explanation.
4. The notice at the bottom of the page
The notice is informational. Nothing on this site waits for your answer, because there is nothing to hold back: no tracker starts when you accept and none is blocked when you decline. Both buttons write the same single key described in the table, and the notice then stays closed on that browser. Declining leaves the site fully readable.
5. How to remove what is stored
Clearing the site data or the browsing data for lumenrec.com in your browser removes the preference key, after which the notice appears again on the next visit. Cookies set by Cloudflare are removed by the same action. Every current browser also allows cookies and storage to be blocked for a site altogether; this site remains fully usable if you do that.
6. Changes and questions
If a new technical component is ever added, the table above is updated before it goes live and the date at the top of this page is moved forward. Questions go to press@lumenrec.com or to Oksana Melnyk, 4696 Boul Bourque, Sherbrooke, QC J1N 2A8, Canada. The terms and conditions cover the use of the site itself.