Cookies

Videographer.org is built to be light on tracking.

The three cookies we set

vgr_session — set when you finish signing in, so we know it's still you on the next page. Strictly necessary. Signing out clears it. First-party, HttpOnly (JavaScript can't read it), SameSite=Lax, and it expires after 30 days.

vgr_org_next — set when you START signing in, before any session exists. It remembers which page you were heading for so you land back there instead of on the homepage — and it never leaves this site, which is why the sign-in redirect cannot be steered anywhere. First-party, HttpOnly (JavaScript can't read it), SameSite=Lax, and it expires after 10 minutes.

vgr_org_intent — set alongside it, and only when there is something to remember about what you were doing. Cleared rather than carried over when there is not. First-party, HttpOnly (JavaScript can't read it), SameSite=Lax, and it expires after 10 minutes.

That's the whole list

No advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking, no third-party analytics.

What we count instead

We keep counts of page views, stamped to the hour rather than the second, and we don't record the page you arrived from. See Privacy for exactly what that means.

See also Privacy and Terms.