Privacy & cookies
The site carries no analytics, no advertising and no trackers. Only what it needs to function is stored — the complete list follows.
updated: 2026-09-22
What we collect
- Twitch sign-in. On authorisation Twitch provides an ID, login, display name and avatar; the follow date and subscription status for the FarostG channel are read in addition. This is stored in a browser cookie and in a server-side profile — pupas, roles, lore, everything the profile page shows. Without authorisation the site remains fully readable.
- What you submit yourself. Lore suggestions and problem reports are stored with the page address and the browser version, which is what makes a bug reproducible. A report sent without authorisation is not tied to an account and the IP address is not kept: only an irreversible hash remains, used solely for spam protection.
- The TV: letters and polls. A letter to the studio on /tv is stored like a problem report: with the browser version, and — without authorisation or with «anonymously» ticked — with no name and no account, only a hash of the address for spam protection. Voting requires a Twitch sign-in: a vote is stored with the ID and login and with the IP address, kept to notice several accounts voting from one address; only the site owner sees it, and it never appears in results on the page. A vote can be changed by sending it again.
- Tubbypoly: tables, chat and reports. Both taking a seat and watching a game require a Twitch sign-in. At a table the others see the players' display names and avatars — no account ID is sent to browsers. Viewers are shown as a number only, without names; a viewer's name appears only if they write in the table's chat themselves. A table's host can make it private (a PIN to sit or to watch), switch viewers or their chat off; the server remembers which accounts entered the PIN while the table exists. Next to a player it is shown whether their table page is open right now. While a table exists the server keeps its state and the full record of the game: every move and every message of the table's chat; anyone the table lets in can open the record. A finished game is deleted with its record after 3 days. A report about a player reaches the site owner in the same queue as problem reports: it stores your account, the account of the player it is about, its text and the link to the table, and that table with its record is kept for 30 days instead of three.
- Drafts and favourites. Article text and attached images autosave as a draft — in the browser and on the server, tied to the account, so that a reload loses nothing. A draft and its images are visible to its author only. Favourite marks on art, emotes, merch, teleavatars and voices are likewise private to the account holder; no counter of them exists anywhere. Both are deletable by the author — with the editor's button or the same heart.
- When you were last here. For authorised visitors a single "last seen" timestamp is kept — one row per account, overwritten on every visit. Which pages were opened, any browsing history and the IP address are not stored; for signed-out visitors nothing is stored at all. The profile shows it approximately ("today", "3 days ago") and others can see it. The eye next to that line turns the display off: it then remains visible to the account holder only.
- What is NOT here. No Google Analytics, no advertising pixels, no browser fingerprinting. The server keeps standard technical access logs, used for security only.
Cookies
Cookies appear only after signing in with Twitch or after you pick a language; before that the site sets none. All of them are strictly necessary for the site to work.
| cookie | set when | lifetime | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| locale | when you pick a language (RU/EN) | a year | The chosen site language — ru or en, nothing else. Set by the language button in the header or by opening the English version; without it the language follows your browser settings. |
| farost_session | after signing in with Twitch | 30 days | Signed session: Twitch ID, login, display name, avatar, follow date and subscription status for the FarostG channel. Marked httpOnly and unreadable by page scripts. |
| tw_oauth_state / tw_from | during the sign-in flow | 10 minutes | Protection of the sign-in against request forgery, plus the address to return to after authorisation. |
Logging out deletes the session cookie. It can also be removed manually in the browser settings.
Browser storage (localStorage)
Interface preferences are kept in the browser and are never sent anywhere:
| key | what it stores |
|---|---|
| tts-vol, tts-muted | volume and mute state on /tts, the radio and the TV |
| daily-rail, daily-rail-pos, daily-seen | state and position of the daily sidebar, and the day it was last opened |
| tv-mini-pos | where the small TV window on /tv was left |
| art-adult | whether 18+ material is shown in the gallery |
| art-age-ok | the confirmation of being 18 or older |
| radio | what the radio plays: the track, the spot in it, repeat and “only ♥”, where the player sits |
| pref-daily, pref-fx | the ⚙ switches: the “daily air” button and the effects |
| pref-calm | that this browser cannot keep up with the moving decoration (then it holds still): when that was noticed |
| pref-theme | the chosen theme: dark, light or as the device |
| mp-layout, mp-snd | the widget arrangement and the chosen sounds in Tubbypoly |
Embedded content
Twitch clips inside articles load only when "load" is pressed; no request reaches Twitch before that. The television on /tv switches itself on when someone from its channel list is live: one Twitch player, muted until 🔊 is pressed, that switches between channels without reloading; with nobody live no player loads. YouTube videos are embedded through the youtube-nocookie.com domain, which sets no cookies in advance. The feed at the bottom of /tv shows material from Twitch, YouTube, Telegram and X: as it scrolls into view, those services load it under their own privacy policies. The covers on /archive/games come from the Fandom wiki (static.wikia.nocookie.net), whose delivery network may set a cookie of its own.
Access and deletion
A request about stored data, or for its deletion, goes through "Report a problem" at the bottom of the page. Data is never sold or passed to third parties: the site is a fan project of the FarostG channel.
