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Cookie Policy

Every cookie this site can set, named, with what it does and how long it lasts. None of them for advertising.

Last checked 31 August 2026

The short version

Two cookies come from Google Analytics and count visits. One is a 15 minute security token for the contact form. One remembers your game. A fourth group belongs to the ChatDivo chat widget in the corner of the page, which stores your conversation so it survives a page change. There is no advertising cookie, no cross-site ad tracker and nothing sold to anyone. Block the lot in your browser and every page and both games still work. This page is kept for transparency, not for search traffic.

What a cookie is here

A cookie is a small piece of text a site asks your browser to keep and send back on the next request. On Thankot.com they do three jobs and no others: count visits in aggregate, protect the contact form from automated abuse, and remember where you were in a game.

Nothing here identifies you by name, because the site has no accounts and never asks for one. The one place you can give us a name and an email address is the contact form, and that does not go into a cookie.

The cookies, one by one

This is the complete list. If your browser shows something on this domain that is not in the table, we want to hear about it.

Cookies this site can set, August 2026.
CookieSet byWhat it doesExpiresType
_gaGoogle Analytics 4Gives your browser a random identifier so repeat visits are not counted as new people. Carries no name or email.2 yearsAnalytics
_ga_T0G2MVEPYKGoogle Analytics 4Holds the session state for our property, G-T0G2MVEPYK, so a visit reads as one session rather than ten.2 yearsAnalytics
csrf_tokenThankot.comAnti-forgery token issued when you submit the contact form. Encrypted, holds only an expiry timestamp.15 minutesEssential
Game state, named after the game storeThankot.com, via pinia-plugin-persistedstateRemembers your Bagh Chal board or Langur Burja round between visits. SameSite=Strict, never sent to another site.Until you clear your browser dataFunctional
ChatDivo widget storageChatDivo (chatdivo.com), a third partyKeeps your chat session and message history so the conversation survives moving between pages. Set by ChatDivo, not by us, and we cannot read it. The exact names are theirs to change.Set by ChatDivoFunctional, third party

The analytics cookies

Google Analytics 4 runs on this site under the measurement ID G-T0G2MVEPYK, loaded from googletagmanager.com on the live site only. It sets _ga and _ga_T0G2MVEPYK and reports a page view each time you open or navigate the site.

We look at it for one reason: to see which pages get shown in search results and never clicked, so we can rewrite them. We do not run Google Ads, remarketing, Google Signals or any advertising product, and Google is never sent an email address, a name or a user ID from here.

These two cookies are the only ones you can refuse without losing anything at all.

The security and game cookies

The csrf_token value is created when you submit the contact form. It is AES encrypted, expires 15 minutes after it is issued, and contains an expiry timestamp and nothing else. It stops a script on another site from posting the form on your behalf. The picture code beside it is generated by our own server, not by Google reCAPTCHA, so solving it tells no third party anything about you.

Game progress is saved by pinia-plugin-persistedstate in a first party cookie named after the game store, set to SameSite=Strict. It stays on your device. We do not read it on the server, log it or connect it to anything else.

Turning them off

There is no cookie banner on this site. Blocking cookies is done in your browser, which is a better place for the decision than a banner that nags on every visit.

  • Block everything from this domain: your browser's site settings, under cookies and site data. Articles, maps and both games still work; only saved game progress goes.
  • Block analytics only: a content blocker, or Google's own opt-out add-on for desktop browsers.
  • Clear what is already there: clearing site data for thankot.com removes every cookie in the table above.

Private or incognito windows drop all of them when you close the window.

When this list changes

If we add a tool that sets a cookie, it goes in the table on the same day, and the date at the foot of the page moves. We have no plans to add advertising, and adding it would mean rewriting this page rather than quietly extending it.

What we do with the data behind these cookies is set out in the privacy policy.

Spotted a cookie we have not listed?

Send us the name and the page you saw it on, at contact@thankot.com. We will explain it or remove it.

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Last updated 31 August 2026. Read this alongside the privacy policy and the terms of use.