1. What Are Cookies and Web Storage Technologies?
Cookies are small alphanumeric data files placed on your computer, tablet, or smartphone when you visit a website. In addition to traditional cookies, modern real-time communication platforms like emerald chat leverage browser local storage (`localStorage`) and session storage (`sessionStorage`) to preserve operational states without degrading connection speeds.
Unlike commercial advertising hubs, emerald chat does not deploy invasive cross-site third-party tracking cookies or sell marketing profiles to data brokers.
2. Strictly Necessary Technical Cookies
These cookies are essential for navigating the site, authenticating securely, and preventing cross-site request forgery (CSRF) exploits.
| Cookie Identifier | Category | Duration | Functional Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
em_sess_token |
Strictly Necessary | Session | Securely carries ephemeral JSON Web Token for authenticated chat authorization. |
csrf_shield_key |
Security | Session | Protects forms against cross-site request forgery injections. |
guest_uuid |
Operational | 24 Hours | Maintains active temporary queue routing for Anonymous Guest Mode. |
3. WebRTC Configuration & LocalStorage Tokens
To guarantee that video and audio calls connect seamlessly without requiring you to reconfigure device permissions every few minutes, emerald chat stores user preferences inside client-side `localStorage`:
- Audio/Video Device IDs: Remembers your chosen microphone and webcam inputs so you don’t have to re-select hardware on each stranger match.
- Volume & Mute Flags: Preserves user-defined speaker settings and microphone states.
- Interest Filter Tags: Caches favorite topic keywords (e.g., gaming, coding, music) for quick recall during queue pairing.
4. Security & Anti-Bot Protection Storage
To defend our community against malicious link-posting scripts, virtual webcam loop attacks, and ban-evasion rings, emerald chat computes a one-way hardware signature stored in session memory. This security token ensures that violators penalized by human moderators or AI computer vision cannot immediately rejoin and harass conversationalists.
5. Managing and Disabling Cookies
You maintain total control over your cookie preferences. Most modern web browsers (including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge) provide settings allowing you to inspect, block, or delete cookies:
To clear active tokens, simply clear your browser cache or click "Exit Session" in your user dashboard.
6. Policy Amendments and Inquiries
Emerald Chat periodically reviews this Cookie Policy to reflect protocol updates, WebRTC networking upgrades, and international regulatory shifts.
For questions regarding storage practices on emerald chat, contact: [email protected].