🍪 Cookie Policy

Last updated: 2026

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data stored in your browser. They let a website remember information about your visit, like whether you're signed in.

How we use them

• Essential cookies: keep you signed in to your account as you move between pages
• Preference cookies: remember settings like your theme
• Analytics cookies: help us understand how the forum is used, so we can improve it
• Advertising cookies: Google AdSense and its partners use cookies to show ads and measure them. Visitors in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland are asked for consent through Google's own consent message before personalised ads are shown

Managing cookies

Most browsers let you block or delete cookies through their settings. Keep in mind that blocking essential cookies will stop you from staying signed in to Hydcircle. If you choose Reject on our cookie banner, Google shows you only non-personalised ads on Hydcircle, based on the page you are reading rather than your browsing history. Ads still appear, and Google may still use cookies to limit how often you see the same ad and to prevent fraud. You can also turn off personalised ads from Google everywhere at Google Ad Settings.

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