Strictly necessary
Always on. These do not track you across sites and are not used for analytics or advertising.
anchor_session
- Provider
- Anchor
- Category
- Strictly necessary
- Duration
- 8 hours
- Party
- First party
- Purpose
- Keeps you signed in to the console. Scripts cannot read it (HttpOnly).
anchor_csrf
- Provider
- Anchor
- Category
- Strictly necessary
- Duration
- 8 hours
- Party
- First party
- Purpose
- Protects console changes against cross-site request forgery. The console reads it and sends it back with each change.
anchor_oauth_state
- Provider
- Anchor
- Category
- Strictly necessary
- Duration
- 10 minutes; deleted when sign-in completes
- Party
- First party
- Purpose
- Ties a Google or GitHub sign-in, or an account link, to the browser that started it, so it cannot be forged.
anchor_return_to
- Provider
- Anchor
- Category
- Strictly necessary
- Duration
- 10 minutes; deleted when used
- Party
- First party
- Purpose
- Returns you to the console page you asked for after you sign in again.
anchor_consent
- Provider
- Anchor
- Category
- Strictly necessary
- Duration
- 12 months
- Party
- First party
- Purpose
- Remembers your cookie choice, the policy version and when you chose.
__cf_bm, cf_clearance, _cfuvid
- Provider
- Cloudflare
- Category
- Strictly necessary
- Duration
- __cf_bm 30 minutes; cf_clearance as set by the security check; _cfuvid until the browser closes
- Party
- Set by Cloudflare on this site's domain
- Purpose
- Set by Cloudflare's network, which protects this site, only when it needs them: to tell people from automated traffic, to remember a passed security check, and to apply rate limits fairly.
Paddle checkout
- Provider
- Paddle
- Category
- Strictly necessary
- Duration
- Set by Paddle; see Paddle's cookie policy
- Party
- Third party (paddle.com)
- Purpose
- Only when you open checkout to subscribe: Paddle, our payment provider and merchant of record, loads its checkout and uses its own cookies and storage to take the payment and prevent fraud.
Cloudflare Turnstile
- Provider
- Cloudflare
- Category
- Strictly necessary
- Duration
- For the challenge; nothing on this site's domain
- Party
- Third party (challenges.cloudflare.com)
- Purpose
- Only on the contact page, and only while the check is switched on: checks that a person, not a bot, is sending a message, so the form stays usable and free of spam. It loads in Cloudflare's own frame; Cloudflare states it sets no cookies, and anything it keeps stays in that frame. No other page loads it.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anchor_session | Anchor | Keeps you signed in to the console. Scripts cannot read it (HttpOnly). | 8 hours | First party |
| anchor_csrf | Anchor | Protects console changes against cross-site request forgery. The console reads it and sends it back with each change. | 8 hours | First party |
| anchor_oauth_state | Anchor | Ties a Google or GitHub sign-in, or an account link, to the browser that started it, so it cannot be forged. | 10 minutes; deleted when sign-in completes | First party |
| anchor_return_to | Anchor | Returns you to the console page you asked for after you sign in again. | 10 minutes; deleted when used | First party |
| anchor_consent | Anchor | Remembers your cookie choice, the policy version and when you chose. | 12 months | First party |
| __cf_bm, cf_clearance, _cfuvid | Cloudflare | Set by Cloudflare's network, which protects this site, only when it needs them: to tell people from automated traffic, to remember a passed security check, and to apply rate limits fairly. | __cf_bm 30 minutes; cf_clearance as set by the security check; _cfuvid until the browser closes | Set by Cloudflare on this site's domain |
| Paddle checkout | Paddle | Only when you open checkout to subscribe: Paddle, our payment provider and merchant of record, loads its checkout and uses its own cookies and storage to take the payment and prevent fraud. | Set by Paddle; see Paddle's cookie policy | Third party (paddle.com) |
| Cloudflare Turnstile | Cloudflare | Only on the contact page, and only while the check is switched on: checks that a person, not a bot, is sending a message, so the form stays usable and free of spam. It loads in Cloudflare's own frame; Cloudflare states it sets no cookies, and anything it keeps stays in that frame. No other page loads it. | For the challenge; nothing on this site's domain | Third party (challenges.cloudflare.com) |
Analytics
Off by default. Used only after you choose Allow analytics. Analytics measures page performance (loading speed and responsiveness), errors, and which features are used, so we can find what is slow or broken. It never records session replays, form values, page text, or your account or organization details. Page addresses lose their query strings, and identifiers in them are replaced.
Our own analytics uses Grafana Faro. It sends data only to this site, which forwards it to our monitoring server; logs are kept for 14 days and traces for 48 hours.
com.grafana.faro.session
- Provider
- Anchor (Grafana Faro, hosted by us)
- Category
- Analytics
- Duration
- Until the tab is closed
- Party
- First party
- Purpose
- A random id for this browser tab, so performance measurements and errors from one visit can be grouped. Never linked to your account or organization. Stored in sessionStorage.
com.grafana.faro.lastNavigationId
- Provider
- Anchor (Grafana Faro, hosted by us)
- Category
- Analytics
- Duration
- Until the tab is closed
- Party
- First party
- Purpose
- Links the timing of one page load to the previous one in the same tab. Stored in sessionStorage.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| com.grafana.faro.session | Anchor (Grafana Faro, hosted by us) | A random id for this browser tab, so performance measurements and errors from one visit can be grouped. Never linked to your account or organization. Stored in sessionStorage. | Until the tab is closed | First party |
| com.grafana.faro.lastNavigationId | Anchor (Grafana Faro, hosted by us) | Links the timing of one page load to the previous one in the same tab. Stored in sessionStorage. | Until the tab is closed | First party |
Changing your choice
Use the choices on this page, or Cookie settings at the bottom of every page and in the console's menu. Withdrawing is as easy as allowing: switch analytics off and save. Analytics stops at once, the page reloads so no analytics code stays in memory, and the analytics cookies and storage are deleted. You can also delete cookies in your browser settings.
Your choice is kept for 12 months. We ask again after that, or sooner if this policy changes in a way that needs a new choice.
Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal or a Do Not Track request, we treat it as a refusal: analytics stays off and cannot be switched on from this browser while the signal is sent.
Who we are and how to contact us
Anchor is a product of ZafTech Solutions, operated from Ethiopia and hosted in Germany. For questions about cookies or your data, email [email protected] with "Privacy" in the subject. Our privacy policy explains how we handle personal data and your rights.
Policy version 1 · Last updated 25 October 2026