Clear by design.

At a glance

No advertising profile.

Xenon Tide does not use advertising cookies, marketing pixels, Google Analytics, user accounts, or individual visitor profiles. It does not currently measure plays of individual songs as custom analytics events.

Strictly necessary

Essential playback cookie.

When you visit the site, Xenon Tide issues one short-lived first-party cookie so the browser can request protected audio streams from the built-in player.

Name

__Host-xt_playback

Purpose

Authorizes and protects audio playback.

Duration

30 minutes.

Protection

HttpOnly, Secure, and SameSite=Strict.

This cookie is not used for advertising, cross-site tracking, or identifying you by name. Because it is required to provide secure music playback, it is not controlled by a consent preference.

Aggregated insight

Cookie-free web analytics.

Xenon Tide uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand aggregated page visits and website performance. Cloudflare states that this service does not use cookies or local storage, does not fingerprint individuals, and does not collect or use visitors' personal data for Web Analytics.

Service delivery

Ordinary technical requests.

Like any website, Xenon Tide and its hosting and security providers process the network requests needed to deliver pages, images, video, and audio securely. This operational traffic is not used by Xenon Tide to build advertising profiles.

Contact

Questions about privacy?

If you have a question about this notice or the website's use of technical data, contact Xenon Tide at xenontide@gmail.com.