Cookies and Storage
Effective October 17, 2026. This short notice explains what GospelShelf keeps on your phone or computer. We use no advertising cookies and no cross-site tracking. Because we keep only what the site needs or what you ask for, we do not show a cookie banner.
What We Keep on Your Device
| Name | What It Does | When | How Long |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Host-gs_sess (cookie) | Keeps you signed in to your free profile (coming soon). Page scripts cannot read it. | Only after you sign in. | 30 days without use, or until you sign out. |
| __Host-gs_u13 (cookie) | Remembers that someone on this device chose Under 9 or 9-11 on the profile age question, so a profile is not offered. Contains no personal information. | Only after that answer (profiles are coming soon). | 1 year. |
| googtrans (cookie) | Remembers your language for the translation tool. | Only after you choose a language other than English. | Until you choose English again or clear it. |
| Local storage (names starting with “gs”) | Remembers your church, age group, callings, language, text size, place in the Bible reader, discipleship plan checkmarks, saved books and similar settings, so pages fit you. | When you make a choice. | Until you clear your browser’s data. Never sent to us unless you create a free profile, which keeps a copy in sync. |
| Security check (Cloudflare Turnstile) | Confirms a person, not a robot, is creating a profile or signing in. | When you create a profile, and after two wrong passwords. | Short-lived. Not used for advertising. |
Other Companies
Retailers such as Amazon set their own cookies, including affiliate cookies, on their own sites when you follow a link. Our signup form provider (Beehiiv, including its attribution.js script, which is not loaded on pages for children), Cloudflare’s sign-in security check and Google Translate may use their own storage under their own policies. Our fonts are stored on our own site. Free profiles are not switched on yet, so the sign-in cookie below is not used today. We honor Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals; see our Privacy Policy. See our Privacy Policy.
Your Choices
- Sign out in My Profile to remove the sign-in cookie.
- Choose English in the language menu to stop translation.
- Clear this site’s data in your browser settings to remove everything stored on your device.
- Delete your free profile at any time in My Profile.
Questions: support@gospelshelf.com.