Cookie Policy
Version 1.0 — Last updated July 18, 2026
ORYN Quest, Inc. ("ORYN Quest," "Company," "we," "our," or "us") provides this Cookie Policy ("Policy") to explain how cookies and similar technologies are used on the ORYN Quest platform, including our websites and mobile applications (the "Platform"). This Policy supplements the ORYN QUEST — PRIVACY POLICY.
The short version: the Platform currently uses essential cookies only. We use no advertising cookies, no analytics cookies, and no cross-site tracking, and the children's play area at /play uses no cookie banner because nothing there requires one.
ARTICLE 1 — WHAT COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES ARE
1.1 Cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on your browser or device by a website. Cookies can be "first-party" (set by the site you are visiting) or "third-party" (set by another domain), and can be "session" cookies (deleted when you close your browser) or "persistent" cookies (retained until they expire or are deleted).
1.2 Local Storage
Local storage is a browser feature that lets a website store information on your device. Unlike cookies, local storage values are not automatically transmitted to servers with each request. The Platform uses local storage for certain on-device preferences and game state, as described in Article 3.
1.3 Mobile Applications
Our mobile applications do not use browser cookies. They use the platform-standard secure storage of your device to hold authentication session tokens — the functional equivalent of the essential cookies described in Article 2 — and on-device storage for the same preferences described in Article 3. Everything else in this Policy (no analytics, no advertising, no cross-site tracking) applies equally to the mobile applications.
ARTICLE 2 — COOKIES WE USE
2.1 Essential Cookies Only
The Platform currently sets essential cookies only. Essential cookies are strictly necessary to operate the Platform and cannot be switched off within the Platform, because signing in and maintaining a secure session depend on them.
2.2 Authentication and Session Cookies (Clerk)
Our identity provider, Clerk, sets cookies to:
- keep you signed in to your account;
- maintain the security and integrity of your session;
- protect against fraudulent requests and session misuse; and
- route you to the correct role-based portal (parent, vendor, or administrator).
These cookies exist so the Platform can function. If you block them, you will not be able to sign in or use account features.
2.3 What We Do Not Use
As of the Last Updated date above:
- NO analytics cookies — no third-party analytics library is installed on the Platform;
- NO advertising or ad-targeting cookies of any kind;
- NO cross-site tracking technologies, pixels, or social-media trackers;
- NO cookie-based profiling for marketing.
2.4 Cookie Reference Summary
For clarity, the complete set of cookie categories in use today is:
- Category: Essential (authentication and session)
Provider: Clerk (first-party operation of our sign-in system) Purpose: sign-in state, session security, request integrity, role-based routing Duration: session cookies expire when the session ends; persistent sign-in cookies expire on the identity provider's schedule or when you sign out
- Category: Analytics — NONE in use
- Category: Advertising — NONE in use
- Category: Social media / cross-site tracking — NONE in use
2.5 Error Monitoring Without Tracking Cookies
We use Sentry for error monitoring so we can detect and fix defects. Sentry is not used to set advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. Error monitoring is disabled entirely in the children's play area (see Article 4). On non-kid-zone surfaces, a small sample of sessions may include session-replay diagnostics used solely to reproduce and fix errors.
ARTICLE 3 — LOCAL STORAGE WE USE
3.1 Theme Preference
Your light/dark theme preference is stored in your browser's local storage. It stays on your device and is not a cookie.
3.2 Kid Zone Game State
Game progress in the children's play area is stored only in local storage on the device, under the keys "oryn-play" and "oryn-play-art." This game state never leaves the device and is never transmitted to our servers. Clearing your browser data removes it.
ARTICLE 4 — THE KID ZONE
The children's play area at /play (including all pages beneath it) is designed for zero data collection:
- no cookie consent banner is shown there, because no non-essential cookies are used there;
- no accounts, no advertising, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind;
- error monitoring (Sentry) is fully disabled for sessions that begin in the kid zone and is stopped when a session navigates into it; and
- the only data associated with play is the on-device local storage described in Section 3.2.
The full commitment appears in the ORYN QUEST — PRIVACY POLICY and the ORYN QUEST — CHILDREN'S PRIVACY POLICY.
ARTICLE 5 — THE CONSENT BANNER
5.1 Choices Offered
Outside the kid zone, the Platform presents a cookie consent banner offering two choices: accepting all cookies or continuing with essential cookies only.
5.2 Current Effect of Your Choice
Because the Platform currently sets essential cookies only, both choices presently result in the same essential-only cookie usage. The banner exists so that, if optional cookie categories are ever introduced, your consent can be captured before any such cookie is set.
5.3 Banner Not Shown in the Kid Zone
The banner is not shown in the children's play area, consistent with Article 4.
ARTICLE 6 — IF WE INTRODUCE ANALYTICS OR NEW COOKIE CATEGORIES
We may in the future introduce privacy-respecting analytics or other cookie categories to improve the Platform. If we do, we will first:
- (a) update this Policy to describe each new category, its purpose, and its provider;
- (b) update the consent banner so that non-essential cookies are set only in accordance with your choice; and
- (c) where the change is material, present the updated Policy for review through the Platform's versioned consent system described in the ORYN QUEST — PRIVACY POLICY.
We will not introduce advertising cookies directed at children under any circumstances.
ARTICLE 7 — MANAGING COOKIES IN YOUR BROWSER
7.1 Browser Controls
Most browsers let you view, block, and delete cookies through their settings, and let you clear local storage. If you block or delete essential cookies, you will be signed out and account features will not function. Because we do not serve third-party advertising cookies, there are no ad-network opt-outs required to use the Platform.
7.2 Do Not Track and Universal Opt-Out Signals
The Platform does not track users across third-party sites or services, so browser "Do Not Track" settings and universal opt-out preference signals (such as Global Privacy Control) do not change our behavior — our default operation already matches the state those signals request. Where a law requires us to treat such a signal as a formal opt-out request, we honor it.
ARTICLE 8 — RETENTION
Cookie lifetimes are set by their purpose: session cookies expire when your session ends, and persistent authentication cookies expire on the schedule set by our identity provider or when you sign out. Local storage values remain on your device until you clear them. Retention of server-side personal information is described in the ORYN QUEST — DATA RETENTION POLICY.
ARTICLE 9 — RELATED POLICIES AND CHANGES
9.1 This Policy should be read together with the ORYN QUEST — PRIVACY POLICY, the ORYN QUEST — CHILDREN'S PRIVACY POLICY, and the ORYN QUEST — DATA RETENTION POLICY.
9.2 We may update this Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last Updated" date and version above, and material changes will be presented through the Platform's versioned consent system and, where appropriate, by notice through the Platform or by email.
ARTICLE 10 — CONTACT
Questions about this Policy or our use of cookies may be directed to:
ORYN Quest, Inc. Email: support@orynquest.com Website: https://orynquest.com