Cookie & Storage Policy

1. Introduction & Core Philosophy

This Cookie and Storage Policy (the "Cookie Policy") complements our overarching Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. It governs how Our Dream AI Ltd., along with its worldwide affiliates (collectively, "Our Dream AI", "Company", "we", "us", or "our"), utilizes HTTP cookies, flash cookies, web beacons, HTML5 local storage (localStorage), session storage (sessionStorage), and client-side database caching technologies across our primary domains—including ourdream.ai, en-ourdreamai.us, and associated application programming interfaces (collectively, the "Platform" or "Services").

In alignment with European Union Directive 2002/58/EC (ePrivacy Directive), Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR Recital 30 and Article 5(3)), the UK Data Protection Act 2018, and California Consumer Privacy Act regulations (CCPA/CPRA), we provide transparent, granular insight into why data files are placed on your terminal device, what technical objectives they accomplish, how long they remain active, and how you retain total autonomy to delete or restrict them at any time.

2. What Are Cookies and Client-Side Storage Technologies?

When you visit an interactive web platform, modern web browsers exchange and maintain small technical packages of data between your hardware and the web server. These include:

• HTTP Cookies: Miniature text strings (often containing encrypted, pseudonymous alphanumeric tokens) transmitted by web servers to your device. When your browser navigates between different pages or returns to our Platform, the cookie is re-transmitted to authenticate who you are and preserve platform state. Cookies may be temporary ("Session Cookies", which automatically terminate once you close your browser application) or enduring ("Persistent Cookies", which remain stored in your browser directory until their pre-set expiration date or manual clearance);
• HTML5 Web Storage (Local and Session Storage): Modern web specifications allowing client applications to store structured key-value data directly within your browser's persistent sandbox. Local storage permits significantly faster access speeds than traditional cookies and does not transmit data back and forth within HTTP request headers, conserving network bandwidth and reducing generation latency;
• IndexedDB: A transactional, object-oriented client database utilized locally within modern browsers to temporarily buffer rich visual assets, such as thumbnail portraits and character backstories, enabling instant page switches without recurring server queries;
• Cryptographic Verification Beacons: Lightweight inline cryptographic verification handshakes used solely during WebSocket handshakes to verify the integrity of live streaming text tokens and real-time voice calls.

3. Categories of Technologies Used on Our Dream AI

Unlike commercial advertising conglomerates, Our Dream AI segments browser storage into strictly operational categories:

A. Strictly Necessary & Security Technologies

These items are indispensable for the Platform to function securely and reliably. Without these files, user authentication fails, secure TLS sessions cannot be confirmed, character generation requests cannot be routed to dedicated GPU nodes, and automated DDoS attacks cannot be mitigated. Because these are strictly mandatory to provide the services explicitly requested by you, they do not require prior opt-in consent under Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive.

B. Functional & Preference Technologies

These technologies enable our web interfaces to remember the functional preferences you select during your sessions. This includes your active AI companion selection (e.g., Aubrey, Miranda, Tracy), your preferred conversational neural engine (Balanced, Lively, Muse, Genius, or Mastermind), audio volume presets, and your UI theme selections (such as high-contrast dark mode). If these keys are cleared, the Platform will revert to default settings on your next visit.

C. Operational Performance & Diagnostic Telemetry

To maintain our sub-200ms inference speeds and 99.98% cluster uptime, we use lightweight, fully anonymized performance counters. These diagnostic metrics evaluate whether our WebSockets are transmitting token responses without packet drops, calculate aggregate cluster latency, and diagnose browser rendering crashes. These counters do not identify individual users or link to personal identity records.

4. Detailed Cookie Inventory & Expiration Table

The following matrix details the active cookies utilized across our Platform, their technical function, domain provider, and retention lifespan:

5. HTML5 Local Storage & Client-Side Sandboxing

In addition to standard HTTP cookies, Our Dream AI relies extensively on HTML5 localStorage to power our rapid client interface. Web storage offers distinct privacy advantages over traditional cookies: its contents are sandboxed solely within your local browser, are never automatically attached to outgoing HTTP request headers, and cannot be intercepted by intermediate proxy nodes.

The primary localStorage keys managed by our application include:

• od_local_theme: Remembers visual UI display states, high-contrast settings, and animation preferences (e.g., enabling or disabling background particle effects);
• od_draft_prompt: Temporarily caches text prompts you enter into our image and character synthesis bars, preventing accidental text loss if you refresh your browser window;
• od_audio_vol: Stores your preferred volume level for voice calls and companion speech synthesis playback;
• od_cache_roster: An indexed local cache of public companion profile metadata (avatars, names, and introductory lines) to permit instantaneous switching between characters without incurring repeated server payloads.

6. Absolute Zero Third-Party Advertising Policy

The vast majority of consumer websites deploy tracking cookies associated with advertising platforms (e.g., Meta Pixel, Google AdSense, Criteo, TikTok Pixel, or surveillance data broker networks). These third parties build cross-site behavioral dossiers by tracking which web pages you visit, how long you stay, and what products you inspect.

Any third-party integration that does touch our domain is strictly operational. For example, our authorized payment processor (Stripe/Paddle) may initialize fraud-prevention cookies (such as __stripe_mid) strictly when you open the checkout portal to verify payment legitimacy and prevent credit card fraud under PCI-DSS compliance.

7. Real-Time Inference Telemetry & Error Handling

Generating neural text responses and photorealistic images requires coordinating complex hardware clusters across North America and Europe. To ensure smooth system performance, our servers monitor high-level telemetry data:

• Token Generation Throughput: We measure the rate at which our neural network outputs words per second to detect server congestion;
• WebSocket Reconnection Handshakes: Diagnostic keys verify whether network jitter disconnected your chat stream, allowing the system to seamlessly reconnect without dropping your conversation;
• Shader & Canvas Compatibility: Minor hardware capability indicators evaluate whether your device supports WebGL acceleration for video rendering, preventing crashes before visual playback begins.

8. Cross-Session Memory Persistence & User Privacy

A core innovation of Our Dream AI is persistent episodic character memory—the ability for companions like Aubrey or Miranda to remember shared conversations, personal preferences, and roleplay storylines across days and weeks.

Users occasionally inquire whether episodic memory is stored within their browser cookies. It is not. Storing complex memory vector graphs within browser cookies would present severe privacy and performance vulnerabilities. Instead:

1. Your device maintains only an encrypted, random session token (__od_session_jwt);
2. Your conversational history and memory embeddings remain isolated in our tenant-partitioned cloud vector database;
3. When you clear your history or click "Clear Companion Memory" inside the chat settings, your browser commands our servers to immediately decouple and delete all associated context tokens from the neural pipeline.

9. How to Manage, Block, or Delete Cookies

You retain complete legal and technical authority to manage, restrict, or purge cookies and browser storage at any time. You can control these settings through several mechanisms:

A. Browser-Level Controls

Every major web browser provides configuration settings enabling you to inspect, reject, block, or delete cookies and web storage. Below are direct instructions for standard browsers:

• Google Chrome: Navigate to Settings > Privacy and Security > Third-Party Cookies. Here you can block third-party cookies, manage site-specific permissions, or clear all stored site data;
• Apple Safari (macOS / iOS): Open Settings > Safari > Advanced, and enable Block All Cookies or configure Prevent Cross-Site Tracking;
• Mozilla Firefox: Access Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data. Select Strict protection to automatically block cross-site tracking cookies;
• Microsoft Edge: Go to Settings > Cookies and Site Permissions > Manage and Delete Cookies and Site Data to customize tracking prevention levels.

B. Clearing HTML5 Local Storage

Because local storage keys do not expire automatically like standard cookies, you can clear them directly by choosing "Clear Browsing Data" in your browser and checking "Cookies and other site data", or by opening your browser's Developer Tools (F12) > Application > Local Storage > Clear All.

10. Global Privacy Control (GPC) & Do Not Track (DNT)

Some web browsers transmit automated "Do Not Track" (DNT) signals or modern Global Privacy Control (GPC) headers to websites you visit. Because industry consensus on standard DNT responses remains fragmented, our Platform does not alter its operational backend behavior upon receiving older DNT headers.

However, because Our Dream AI already completely refrains from selling, leasing, or sharing personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising, our default operating configuration already delivers the protections sought by Global Privacy Control and California CPRA opt-out standards.

11. Impact of Blocking Strictly Necessary Storage

While you hold the absolute right to block all cookies and disable local storage via browser preferences, please be advised that doing so will degrade your experience on the Platform:

• You will be unable to log in or maintain an authenticated session, as cryptographic session tokens cannot be held in memory;
• Your active companion selection, chosen chat models (Genius/Mastermind), and prompt history will not be saved between page reloads;
• The live chat workspace may display reconnection errors because sticky load-balancing cookies will be inaccessible to our GPU cluster.

12. Modifications to this Policy & Contact Inquiries

We may periodically revise this Cookie Policy to reflect technical modifications to our neural infrastructure, newly supported browser capabilities, or evolving legal frameworks. Whenever material adjustments are implemented, we will update the "Last Revised" date at the summit of this page. Your continued navigation of the Platform constitutes acknowledgment of the revised practices.

If you have questions, regulatory feedback, or technical inquiries regarding our cookie standards, please contact our Data Protection Office: