What we do and do not measure
CURA carries no advertising, no advertising pixels, and no third-party trackers. Nothing on this site follows you to another one.
We do count visits, because we need to know whether the site works and whether anyone is finding it. That counting runs on our own server, on software we host ourselves. It sets nothing on your device, stores no identifier for you, and no other company receives any of it.
What is stored on your device is the four items below, all set by CURA itself, and none of them is for measurement.
How the counting works
When you open a page, the page tells our own server that a page was opened. It records the address of the page, the site you arrived from if any, a rough country from your network address, and whether you are on a phone or a computer.
It does not store a number that identifies you, so we cannot follow one person from page to page across days, and we cannot tell one returning visitor from two new ones. That is a real loss of accuracy and we accept it, because the alternative is putting an identifier on your device.
The software is Umami, and it runs on our own server in Singapore alongside everything else. It places no cookie and no other identifier on your device.
If your browser sends a "do not track" signal, we honour it and nothing is counted at all.
What is stored
| Name | Type | Lasts | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| cura_access | Cookie, strictly necessary | 15 minutes | Keeps you signed in between one page and the next. |
| cura_refresh | Cookie, strictly necessary | 30 days | Lets you come back later without typing your password again. Revoked when you sign out. |
| cura-locale | Cookie, preference | 1 year | Remembers whether you are reading English or Chinese. Set only when you switch language. |
| cura-theme | Local storage, preference | Until you clear it | Remembers light or dark. Never sent to our server. |
Why there is no cookie banner
What needs consent is storing or reading something on your device that is not necessary for a service you asked for. Our counting stores nothing on your device at all, so there is nothing to consent to.
The two sign-in cookies are what "keep me signed in" means, and the two preference items only exist because you chose a language or a theme. A banner asking permission to remember that you clicked "Chinese" would be theatre.
We chose the measurement tool to make this true, rather than choosing a tool and then asking you to accept it. If we ever adopt something that does put an identifier on your device, this page changes and a banner appears with it.
Turning them off
Your browser can block or clear any of these. Blocking the sign-in cookies will stop you being able to sign in, because they are the mechanism, not a side effect. Blocking the preference items only means the site forgets your language and theme.