Cookie Policy

The three cookies

cr_session — an anonymous, random identifier. It is created the first time you open a Roast Night page, to give you a seat at the table, or when you write a joke or cast a vote. It keeps your daily count, holds your seat in a room, and lets jokes you wrote before registering be attached to your account afterwards. It lasts a year and is not readable by scripts.

cr_auth — set when you sign in with the link we email you, so the site knows it is you. It lasts 90 days, or until you sign out. It is not readable by scripts.

cr_lang — remembers the language you chose from the menu, so the site does not keep guessing from your browser. It lasts a year.

All three are strictly necessary under Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive and Article 122 of the Italian Privacy Code, which is why no consent banner is required for them.

What stays on your device

Besides cookies, the site uses your browser's local storage for two things: your Academy exercise drafts and your choice to mute the screen.

Academy drafts use keys that start with comedyroaster:academy:. The Premium notebook keys also contain your user identifier, so two accounts on the same device do not get mixed up.

This data stays on your device and is never sent to us. You can export your drafts from the Academy and delete everything from your browser's settings.

Analytics without cookies

We measure how the site is used with PostHog, on its European infrastructure in Frankfurt. It is configured to keep nothing on your device: no cookies, no local storage. The data stays in memory only while the page is open. It does not collect your IP address and does not identify you: it records page views and a handful of events.

The consequence is deliberate: we can see that a page is confusing, and we cannot follow you from one visit to the next. That trade was made on purpose. It also means there is no banner standing between you and writing a joke.

No third-party tracking

There are no advertising cookies, no social network pixels, and no third-party trackers on this site.

Stripe sets its own cookies during payment, on Stripe's pages, for fraud prevention. That happens on their checkout, under their policy, and only if you subscribe.

Removing them

You can delete cookies at any time from your browser's settings. Delete cr_session and you lose the thread connecting anonymous jokes to a future account, and your place in any Roast Night in progress. Delete cr_auth and you are signed out. Nothing else breaks.

Questions: privacy@comedyroaster.com.