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Cookies and local storage
Last updated: 15 August 2026
The short version
This website stores nothing on your device until you say it may. There are no advertising cookies, no tracking pixels and no profiles — not as a setting you can turn on, but because none exist on the site at all. If you choose "Reject", the only thing kept is a note that you said no.
What is set, and only after you agree
| Name | Type | Set by | Purpose | Kept for | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
saiva_consent | First-party cookie and localStorage | This website | Remembers the choice you made here, so you are not asked again on every page. | 180 days | Strictly necessary |
saiva_attr | sessionStorage | This website | Remembers which link brought you here, so we can tell whether the festival calendar or a search result is what helps families find Gurukkal. Cleared when you close the tab. Set only if you accept measurement. | Until the tab closes | Measurement |
_ga, _ga_* | First-party cookie | Google Analytics 4 | Counts visits and distinguishes one visit from another. Advertising features and cross-device signals are switched off, and IP addresses are truncated. | Up to 2 years | Measurement |
_clck, _clsk | First-party cookie | Microsoft Clarity | Links the pages of one visit together so a layout problem can be seen end to end. Never runs on the request form or the preparation page. | Up to 1 year | Session replay |
If a name above is not in your browser, that tool has not been switched on for this site yet. Nothing loads while its account ID is blank.
What is not here
- No advertising or remarketing tags of any kind.
- No social media tracking pixels. The Facebook and LinkedIn links in the footer are ordinary links — they load nothing until you click them.
- No fingerprinting, and no attempt to identify you across other websites.
- No third-party cookies set by this site.
Third parties that see something about you
Some things are unavoidable when a page loads. These are the ones on this site:
- Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com) — serves the typefaces. Receives your IP address as an ordinary part of delivering a file. Sets no cookies. This happens on every page and is not covered by the choice above, because the page cannot be rendered without it.
- Cal.com — the scheduling service. Loads only on the last step of the request form, and only once you get there. Anything you type into it goes to Cal.com, not to this website.
- Your host keeps ordinary server logs, including IP addresses, for security and troubleshooting. That is true of every website.
- Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity — only if you accept, as described in the table above.
- Hugging Face and jsDelivr — only if you press "Enable advanced AI" in the assistant, which downloads an open-source language model to your own device. Nothing you type is sent anywhere; the model runs in your browser.
Changing your mind
Use — it is in the footer of every page. You can switch categories on or off, or clear the choice entirely. Withdrawing is exactly as easy as agreeing, and takes the same number of clicks.
Tools that have already loaded on the page you are looking at cannot be unloaded from it. Reloading the page after you withdraw stops them.
Browser privacy signals
If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, this site treats that as a "no" and does not ask you again. You will not see the banner at all.
Questions: gurukkalkumar@gmail.com · See also Privacy Policy and Your privacy choices.