What are we leaving on your device?

This is the rare cookies notice that exists to tell you there are no cookies. ydirection.co sets none — not for analytics, not for advertising, not to recognise you on your next visit. There’s no consent banner because there’s nothing to consent to.

Nothing is written to your device when you read these pages: no cookies, no local storage, no hidden trackers. Everything below is the detail behind that one sentence — and how to check it for yourself.

A cookie is a small piece of text a website asks your browser to store and hand back on your next request. Used well, it remembers a genuine preference. Used the way most of the web uses it, it quietly follows you from site to site so someone can build a profile and sell you something.

We’re telling you what one is because a notice that lists “strictly necessary, performance, targeting” categories without explaining the thing itself is hiding in plain sight. This page does the opposite.

We don’t set first-party cookies, and we don’t load anyone else’s. We don’t write to local storage or session storage either. Close the tab and there’s no trace of your visit left on your device — because we never put one there.

You don’t have to take our word for it. Open your browser’s developer tools on any page here, look under Application or Storage, and you’ll find the cookie and storage lists empty. A claim you can verify in ten seconds is worth more than a paragraph of reassurance.

Consent banners exist because sites set cookies the law says you must agree to first — analytics, advertising, cross-site tracking. We run none of those. There’s no analytics on this site, ours or a third party’s; no ad networks; no “people who viewed this also viewed” machinery.

Adding a banner anyway — the kind that nags you to “Accept All” for cookies that don’t exist — would be the exact dishonesty this practice is built against. So we didn’t. Silence here means nothing is happening, not that we forgot to ask.

Plenty of sites drop a cookie to remember whether you read in one language or another. We keep it in the URL instead: English at ydirection.co, Arabic at ydirection.co/ar. The page you’re on tells the site which language to serve — there’s nothing to store.

That means your choice travels in the link, where you can see it and share it, rather than in a file you can’t. Switch with the EN / ع control any time, and bookmark the version you prefer.

The one place we actively guard is the form on Start, where we slow down automated abuse. That check happens in the moment on our own server, using the network address the request arrives from, and it’s discarded as soon as the brief window passes. None of it is stored on your device, and none of it is a cookie.

How we handle what you deliberately send through that form — and the little your browser reveals with any request — is set out in full in our Privacy notice. This page is only about what we do and don’t keep on your machine: which is nothing.

The most common way a careful site still leaks cookies is through someone else’s embed — a video player, a map, a social widget, a font loaded from a third party. Each of those can set its own cookies the moment a page loads, before you’ve touched anything.

We don’t embed any of them. There’s no third-party video, no social button that phones home, no map iframe. Our fonts are served from this site, not fetched from an outside library, so opening a page here doesn’t quietly announce your visit to anyone else. Where we link out, that’s a link you choose to follow — and once you’re there, their rules apply, not ours.

If the site ever genuinely needs a cookie — something strictly necessary to make a feature work, like remembering a real preference you set — we’ll add it, and we’ll describe it here first: what it’s called, what it does, and how long it lasts. Strictly-necessary cookies don’t require consent, but they do require honesty, and you’ll get it.

Anything beyond strictly necessary — analytics, anything that tracks — would get a real choice: a clear, unticked option you opt into, never an “Accept All” dressed up as the only way through. We don’t expect to go there. If we ever did, this is where you’d read about it before it happened.

Even though there’s nothing to manage, your browser is yours. You can block cookies entirely, clear what other sites have left, or use a private window — and every page of this site will work exactly the same, because none of it depends on a cookie being there.

If your browser sends a “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signal, we honour it by default — we behave as if everyone sent one. The controls live in your browser’s privacy or settings panel; we’re glad if you use them, here and everywhere else.

If we ever start using a cookie, or change how this site stores anything on your device, we’ll update this notice and the date at the top of the page — that line is the version. Nothing here is meant to outlive the truth: when the truth changes, so does the page, before the change reaches you.