What a cookie is
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website can ask your browser to store on your device. On your next visit, the browser sends that data back to the website. Cookies are how most of the internet remembers who you are, what you put in your shopping cart, whether you are logged in, and — less charitably — which products you looked at on a competitor's site three weeks ago.
Related technologies include local storage, session storage, IndexedDB, service workers, device fingerprinting, and various pixel-tracking techniques. Different mechanics, same general purpose: recognize a specific device or visitor over time. Throughout this policy, when we say "cookies" we mean this whole family of client-side tracking technology, not just the strict HTTP cookie.
Our position
This site does not set any cookies, and does not use any equivalent client-side storage to identify or track visitors. We made this choice deliberately. stealthPAY is about private, permissionless agent payments; it would be strange if the website that advocates for those properties sold your browsing data to the highest bidder on the way in.
The short version: no cookies, no local storage tracking, no fingerprinting, no advertising pixels, no retargeting, no cross-site identifiers, no cookie banner. This page exists mainly to document that fact so regulators, auditors, and curious visitors can verify it.
What we do instead
We still want to know whether people are reading what we write and whether any pages are broken. So we use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-respecting analytics service that does not rely on cookies. Plausible generates aggregate, anonymized page-view counts from server-side data and standard request headers, without setting any identifier on your device. You show up in a bucket labeled "visits from this country on this day", not as an individual.
For a fuller description of what Plausible receives and how we use it, see our Privacy Policy.
Full inventory
For clarity and audit purposes, here is the complete inventory of client-side storage this site uses or sets:
| Mechanism | Used by stealthpay.org? | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| First-party cookies | None | — |
| Third-party cookies | None | — |
| Local storage | None | — |
| Session storage | None | — |
| IndexedDB | None | — |
| Service workers | None | — |
| Web beacons / pixels | None | — |
| Canvas/WebGL fingerprinting | None | — |
| Advertising IDs | None | — |
If you encounter a storage entry on this domain that is not listed above, it is either a browser extension you have installed or a bug. In the latter case, please let us know at hello@stealthpay.org.
Third-party behavior
A few third-party resources are loaded by this site. None of them set cookies or persistent identifiers on your device through this domain:
- Plausible Analytics — cookieless by design; does not store or set any identifier on your device.
- Google Fonts — serves font files. Google may log the IP address of the font request. No cookies are set on stealthpay.org. We intend to self-host our fonts in a future release to eliminate this request entirely.
- Our CDN / hosting provider — delivers the HTML, CSS, JS and assets. Standard server-access logs are kept for a short rolling window to diagnose operational issues, as described in our Privacy Policy. No cookies are set.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Because we do not track you to begin with, signals like the browser's DNT header or the Global Privacy Control (Sec-GPC) header have no practical effect on this site — there is nothing additional to turn off. We still record no identifying data about your visit. If a future version of this site introduces any tracking (for example if we add an opt-in newsletter sign-up), we will honor these signals where they are legally binding.
How you can verify
You do not have to take our word for any of this. You can verify everything above directly from your browser:
- Open this page in a clean browser profile or incognito window.
- Open the developer tools (F12 or right-click → Inspect).
- Go to the Application tab (Chrome / Edge / Brave) or Storage tab (Firefox / Safari).
- Inspect Cookies, Local Storage, Session Storage, IndexedDB, and Cache Storage for the stealthpay.org origin.
- You should see zero entries for cookies and zero entries for any of the storage mechanisms listed in the inventory above.
If you prefer a one-line command-line check, the HTTP response from this site carries no Set-Cookie header. You can confirm with curl -I https://stealthpay.org/.
Changes to this policy
If we ever introduce a cookie or similar storage — for example to support an optional preference toggle, a newsletter opt-in, or a login flow for a future product — we will update this page, update the effective date, and surface the change prominently on the site before any such mechanism is enabled. Any tracking that is not strictly necessary will require your consent.
Contact
Questions about this policy should be directed to:
Stealth R&D LLC
Email: hello@stealthpay.org
GitHub: github.com/Stealth-R-D-LLC