Cookie & Privacy Policy
Devyy operates with strict privacy-by-design standards compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), and global privacy controls.
Manage Your Current Preferences
You can modify, grant, or revoke your non-essential cookie consent at any time.
1. What Are Cookies and Local Storage?
Cookies and browser local storage are small text files and cryptographic tokens placed on your computer, tablet, or smartphone when you visit web applications. They allow our platform to recognize your device, maintain your secure authenticated session, remember reader settings, and analyze anonymous platform performance.
2. Categories of Cookies We Use
Crucial for account login, session verification, PostgreSQL security, and CSRF token protection. Without these, Devyy cannot function securely.
Stores your reading progress bar preferences, font scale choices, audio speeds, and pinned tools to deliver a personalized reading experience.
Measures aggregate audience volumes, technical load speeds, and detects broken links. We do not sell or monetize personal tracking data.
Helps discover investigative engineering teardowns and technology categories aligned with your past reading engagement.
3. Specific Cookie Inventory
| Identifier | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| devyy_cookie_consent_v1 | Essential | 12 Months | Records your privacy consent choices |
| devyy_current_user | Essential | Session / 30 Days | Maintains authenticated session & security clearance |
| devyy_bookmarked_ids | Functional | Persistent | Caches your saved articles for offline reading |
| devyy_user_claps | Functional | Persistent | Optimistic interaction tracker for author appreciation |
4. Global Privacy Control (GPC) & Do Not Track
Devyy honors the Global Privacy Control (GPC) standard and browser-level Do Not Track (DNT) signals. If your browser broadcasts an affirmative GPC or DNT signal, our platform automatically sets your non-essential telemetry and personalizing cookies to disabled without requiring manual configuration.
5. Your Legal Rights (GDPR & CCPA/CPRA)
Under applicable data protection laws, you possess the right to:
- Request access to any personal data stored about you.
- Request immediate deletion or erasure of your account and personal identifiers.
- Opt out of any data sharing or profiling.
- Revoke previously granted cookie consent at any time without penalty.
For privacy inquiries or deletion requests, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected].