Cookie Policy

Last updated: February 4, 2026

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. At Talebot.io, we use cookies to personalize your neural storytelling experience.

2. Exhaustive Inventory of Cookie Interactions

Talebot utilizes a sophisticated array of cookies to ensure platform integrity and user experience optimization. Our inventory includes:

Session & Authentication (Strictly Necessary)
  • session: Encrypted Flask session ID for user authentication (Persistent).
  • csrf_token: Cross-Site Request Forgery protection for form security.
  • remember_token: Long-term authentication state for returning users.
  • __stripe_mid: Stripe fraud detection and risk assessment.
  • __stripe_sid: Stripe session tracking for secure checkouts.
  • talebot_player_state: LocalStorage sync for global audio persistence.
Personalization & Experience
  • audioEnabled: User preference for autoplay narrations.
  • theme_pref: UI color scheme and glass-morphism depth settings.
  • voice_pref: Preferred AI narrator voice (e.g., GuyNeural).
  • lang_pref: Default interface and translation language.
Performance & Third-Party Integrity
  • _ga / _gid: Anonymous usage metrics (if Analytics is enabled).
  • ls.hit.count: Local hit counter for rate-limiting visualization.
  • neural_link_lat: Cached latency data for faster AI responses.
  • DALL-E-cache: Temporary metadata for cover art previews.

3. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service and deliver features. For example:

  • Stripe: Uses cookies to process payments and prevent fraud.
  • OpenAI: May use cookies related to the API interactions for security and quality of service.
  • Google Fonts: May be used to deliver high-quality typography to your browser.

4. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience, as it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information.

5. Updates to This Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.