Cookie Policy
Last updated: 14 November 2026
This page explains the browser storage used by CutNoodle for optional analytics, Google AdSense when active, and Adsterra on reading pages and X tools. The site and all of its tools continue to work if you decline optional analytics or personalised advertising.
1. Before you choose
Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and Umami are not loaded and no analytics cookie is created before you make a choice. Your choice is saved under cutnoodle.analytics-consent.v1 in local storage. Local storage stays in your browser and, unlike a cookie, is not attached to every request. It contains only granted or denied.
2. Optional analytics cookies
If you allow analytics, Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity may create these first-party cookies:
_ga: distinguishes browsers for analytics; normally kept for up to two years._ga_<container-id>: preserves session state; normally kept for up to two years._clck: preserves the pseudonymous Clarity visitor ID and preferences for this site._clsk: connects page views into one Clarity session recording.
Umami is enabled by the same choice but creates no cookie and saves nothing in your browser. These services are used only to measure use of the site and its tools. In Google Analytics we keep advertising storage, advertising user data, advertising personalisation and Google signals disabled. Clarity also receives an explicit ad_storage: denied signal, so we do not use it for Microsoft Ads.
3. Advertising
When advertising is active, Google and participating advertising vendors may use first-party or third-party cookies and similar storage to serve ads, limit how often they appear, prevent fraud and measure performance. Depending on your location and choices, Google may use advertising cookies to personalise ads based on visits to CutNoodle and other sites. Non-personalised ads may still use storage for frequency capping, aggregated reporting and fraud prevention.
Adsterra banners appear only on selected guides, comparisons and other reading pages, and on the X tool pages, where starting a tool also opens an Adsterra ad page in a new tab. Their scripts are not requested, and the ad tab does not open, until you allow advertising in the privacy choices shown on those pages. Adsterra and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar identifiers to serve and measure ads, limit frequency and prevent fraud. The exact identifiers and lifetimes are controlled by those providers. Read the Adsterra Privacy Policy for more information. You can change your Adsterra choice through "Cookie settings" in the footer of a reading page or an X tool page.
In the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, a Google-certified consent message manages advertising choices where consent is required. Declining personalised advertising does not prevent you from using CutNoodle. When advertising is active, you can revisit those choices through Google's privacy choices control. You can also manage personalised advertising in Google's Ads Settings and read more about Google's advertising technologies.
4. What analytics does not receive
Our analytics events are designed not to send X usernames, searches, filenames, images, video or audio, editor content, exported files or free-form error messages. Clarity receives page structure and interaction data such as clicks, scrolling and navigation, but the entire page is explicitly masked before it is uploaded. Media processing remains in your browser.
5. Change or withdraw your choices
Select "Cookie settings" in the footer of any page to change the CutNoodle analytics choice. Turning analytics off stops future measurement by all three services and removes the Google Analytics and Clarity cookies that CutNoodle can access. Clearing this site's browser storage resets the choice and the analytics panel will appear again. Adsterra advertising can be changed through "Cookie settings" on a reading page or an X tool page. Google advertising choices are managed separately through the Google consent message described above.
6. Other storage
Some editing tools use IndexedDB to keep temporary project state in your own browser so that a reload does not discard your work. This is functional local storage, not advertising or analytics, and your media is not uploaded. Hosting and security providers may process ordinary request information as explained in the Privacy Policy.
X Country Battle keeps one local storage entry, cutnoodle.cup.votes.v1, with the X Country Cup matches this browser has voted in and the country chosen, so the page does not offer the same vote twice. It holds no identifier, is not sent to us and is not used for analytics or advertising.
The aggregate successful-completion counter described in the Privacy Policy does not read or write cookies, local storage or another browser identifier. It receives a new random event ID with the tool name only, so retrying one completion does not increase the count.
7. Contact
For questions about cookies or privacy, email support@cut-noodle.com.