Last updated: 30 September 2026
Short version: our coloring preferences and unfinished pictures stay in your browser. Google may set advertising cookies as described below. Google Analytics 4 is a separate, optional choice: its tag and cookies load only after you select “Allow analytics”. You can change that choice at any time. For the data involved, see our Privacy Policy.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a website stores in your browser so it can recognise that browser on the next request. “Local storage” is a similar mechanism that stays on your device and is never sent anywhere. This page lists both, because people rightly care about both.
Stored by us
| Name | Type | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| cp-theme | Local storage, not a cookie | Remembers whether you chose light or dark mode | Until you clear your browser data |
| cp-profile, cp-recent-colors, ponpon-coloring | Local storage and IndexedDB, not cookies | Your name and email for the gallery (only if you tick “remember me”), your recent colors, and pages you are still coloring | Until you clear your browser data |
| comment_author_* | Cookie | Remembers your name and email for the next comment, only if you tick the box under the comment form | About a year |
| WordPress session cookies (wordpress_*, wp-settings-*) | Cookie, strictly necessary | Only ever set if you log in to the site’s admin area. Ordinary visitors never receive these. | Session, or as set at login |
Optional Google Analytics 4 cookies
After you choose “Allow analytics”, Google Analytics 4 may set first-party cookies on coloringponpon.com to distinguish visits and measure how pages and tools are used. We do not load the GA4 tag or send analytics events when you decline or have not chosen. Our event parameters include the page path and action name, without your drawing, colors, gallery form entries or full /color/ query string. Google also receives technical browser information.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga, _ga_* | First-party cookies set by Google Analytics 4 after opt-in | Distinguish visits and calculate usage statistics | Up to two years, subject to browser limits and your deletion choice |
| ponpon-analytics-consent | Local storage, not a cookie | Remembers whether you allowed or declined analytics | Until you clear browser data or change the choice |
Stored by Google for advertising
Adverts on this site are served by Google AdSense. Google may set the cookies below on the domains google.com, doubleclick.net and googlesyndication.com. With your consent they are used to personalise adverts to your interests, including across other sites that use Google advertising; without it they are used only for frequency capping, counting views and clicks so advertisers are billed correctly, and detecting fraud. The exact set varies with your region, your choices and your browser; Google keeps the authoritative list on its cookies page.
| Name | Domain | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| __gads, __gpi | coloringponpon.com (set by Google’s script) | Frequency capping, measuring advert views and, with consent, ad personalisation | 13 months |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | Records adverts viewed or clicked and, with consent, builds the interest profile used to personalise them | 13 months |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | Checks whether the browser accepts cookies at all | 15 minutes |
| NID | google.com | Google’s general preference cookie, also used for fraud detection | 6 months |
| FPGCLAW, FPGCLGB (and similar) | coloringponpon.com | Advert click measurement when an advert is clicked | 90 days |
If you decline in the consent message, Google serves adverts in a limited mode that sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. Outside Europe you can achieve the same with the opt-out links below.
Consent
Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland see a consent message on their first visit, provided through Google’s certified consent platform. Nothing in the advertising table above is stored until you choose. Your choice itself is remembered (that is the one thing stored either way) for up to 13 months. To change it, use “Privacy and cookie settings” in the footer of any page. Visitors in US states with privacy laws can use “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” in the footer. Elsewhere we rely on your browser settings and the opt-out links below.
Analytics choice
On your first visit we ask separately whether to allow Google Analytics 4. Until you agree, its script does not load and this site sends no analytics events. If you agree, it counts page views and actions such as starting to color, saving or printing, and downloading A4 or US Letter PDFs. Choose “Analytics settings” in the site footer or coloring tool to change your choice. Withdrawing stops future tracking and clears GA cookies from this site where your browser permits. This is separate from Google’s advertising consent message.
The coloring tool
Your coloring and selected colors stay in your browser and on your device unless you choose to submit the picture to the gallery. If you allow analytics, the tool sends action names such as “coloring started”, “save” and “print” to Google, without the picture or its colors. The tool shows no adverts.
Turning things off
- Consent message (Europe): choose “Do not consent”, or reopen it later from the footer link.
- Google Ads Settings: adssettings.google.com lets you opt out of Google’s advertising cookies across every site that uses them.
- Industry opt-outs: aboutads.info (US) and youronlinechoices.com (Europe) cover many advertisers at once.
- Browser settings: every browser can block third-party cookies, delete cookies on exit, or clear them now. Blocking them does not break anything here, the only effect is that the site forgets your light/dark choice if you also clear local storage.
Changes to this policy
If we add another service that sets cookies or receives data about visitors, we will update this page and ask for consent where required.
Questions: hello@coloringponpon.com. For everything else we do (and do not) record, see the Privacy Policy.
