Legal

Cookies & Storage

Short version: we don't use tracking cookies, and we don't need a consent banner.

0 Tracking cookies
1 localStorage key (theme)
0 Third-party storage
0 Consent banners required

This page describes every form of device storage Plandentic uses on plandentic.com. We have intentionally designed this site to require no consent banner - by avoiding all non-essential cookies and storage. The only thing we save on your device is your theme preference, and only if you choose to change it.

Tracking cookies we use

None. We do not use:

Third-party tracking cookies
Advertising or retargeting cookies
Social-media cookies (Facebook, LinkedIn, X / Twitter pixels)
Analytics cookies that identify you across sessions or sites
Browser fingerprinting or other invasive tracking technologies

This is a deliberate product decision, not an oversight - see our Privacy Policy for the full privacy-first stance.

Other device storage we use

The ePrivacy Directive applies to any storage on your device - cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB. So even though we don't use cookies, we want to be transparent about the one piece of localStorage we do use:

Theme preference

Key: theme · Storage: localStorage · Value: "light", "dark", or "system"

When you click the theme toggle in the header, we save your choice in your browser so the site remembers it next time you visit (and applies it before the first paint, so you don't see a "flash" of the wrong theme). It contains only the preference value - no identifiers, no PII, no tracking flags - and is never transmitted to us or any third party.

Under ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3), storage is exempt from prior consent when it is "strictly necessary for an information society service explicitly requested by the user". A theme toggle the user clicks is the explicit request; saving the chosen value is the technical implementation of it.

This is the same legal basis used by Notion, Linear, Vercel, GitHub, and is consistent with German DPA guidance and iubenda's classification of preference storage. The strictly-necessary exemption applies as long as:

The storage contains only the preference value (it does)
It is never transmitted to a third party (it isn't)
It is only written on explicit user action, no silent profiling (it is)

Analytics

We use Plausible Analytics - a privacy-first, GDPR-compliant tool that:

Does not use cookies or any device storage
Does not track visitors across websites
Collects only anonymous, aggregated statistics (page views, referrers, device categories)
Cannot be traced back to individual users
Is hosted in the EU on EU-owned infrastructure

Because Plausible processes no personal data and stores nothing on your device, it does not require consent under GDPR / ePrivacy. It will not appear in any "Accept / Reject cookies" dialog, because none is required.

What would change in the future

If we ever add any of the following, this page will be updated and a consent mechanism will be introduced where required by law:

User authentication on the marketing site (would introduce session cookies)
Marketing pixels or retargeting tags (Meta, LinkedIn, Google Ads, etc.)
Embedded third-party media that sets cookies (e.g. youtube.com - we'd use youtube-nocookie.com instead)
Live-chat widgets that drop tracking cookies
A/B testing tools or session-replay tools

Today, none of these are present.

How to clear or disable storage

You can clear our theme preference at any time by clearing site data for plandentic.com in your browser, or by switching your browser to "private" / "incognito" mode (which discards all storage when the window closes).

In your browser settings you can also block all storage for this site. The only consequence is that your theme choice will not persist between visits - every page load will fall back to your operating-system theme.

Questions about how we handle device storage?

Email us