Cookie Policy

Effective date: August 6, 2026

Last updated: October 3, 2026

1. Scope

This Cookie Policy explains how the current PixelArtNow website uses cookies and similar browser storage. It should be read with the Privacy Policy.

2. PixelArtNow application storage

Pixel art and bead-pattern tools use IndexedDB to keep one recent local draft per tool. Drafts contain edited grid cells, palette data, conversion and output settings, a local project identifier, revision and save time. The application does not persist original image bytes, source filenames or paths, or undo history. Downloaded project JSON files have the same boundary. Bead projects can also contain making marks and a saved pattern version for those marks; this lets you view previous progress after edits or board changes. Making marks do not deduct stock. Mosaic work remains temporary. Examples stay unsaved until you edit them or start making progress.

Local drafts serve the save/restore feature and work independently of optional analytics consent. They are not sent to PixelArtNow or analytics services. Resetting the workbench leaves its saved draft available. Use Delete saved draft or clear this site’s browser storage to remove it. Clearing data, storage eviction and private-browser limits may remove drafts or prevent saving. A project file can be imported on another device; it does not include the original image. There is no cloud project recovery.

3. Analytics and advertising

PixelArtNow may use optional analytics services — Google Analytics 4, Plausible Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, and Ahrefs Analytics — to understand page visits, tool completion, and interface problems. These services load only after you accept the analytics choice; they do not load or run before consent.

When you accept, GA4 and Microsoft Clarity may set their own first-party cookies. Plausible Analytics and Ahrefs Analytics are cookieless page-traffic services. Consent is stored in first-party browser storage as only your analytics choice, the policy version, and a timestamp. Analytics events are coarse categories and never include image or export bytes, filenames, exact dimensions, palette identifiers or versions, color codes or selections, material counts, board layouts, transient pattern identifiers, coordinates, or outputs. Optional analytics must not receive bead-tool image or export content, filenames, exact dimensions, cells or coordinates, palette dataset identifiers or versions, color names, codes, values or selections, material counts, board plans, transient pattern identifiers, or free text. Microsoft Clarity masks the complete bead workbench, including upload, previews, cells, reference-color tables, counts, dimensions, board and page plans, replacement controls, status, errors, and exports. Analytics remains optional; rejection or withdrawal does not reduce tool or export functionality. PixelArtNow does not use advertising, remarketing, or ad-personalization cookies.

After analytics consent is withdrawn, PixelArtNow stops sending new optional analytics events and page views immediately. GA4 and Microsoft Clarity receive an updated denial or stop signal where those vendors expose a consent-stop mechanism, and first-party analytics identifier cookies that were placed only by the optional analytics load are cleared where technically supported. Whether an already loaded vendor script can be unloaded depends on the vendor; you may also reload the page or use browser controls to inspect, block, or delete cookies and site storage.

4. Website delivery and security

Cloudflare delivers and protects PixelArtNow and processes ordinary website request and security information. Cloudflare may use strictly necessary security mechanisms when responding to a request. These mechanisms are separate from PixelArtNow tool data and must not be used to store an image, filename, edit history, selected area, or output.

No optional Cloudflare Web Analytics or Browser Insights beacon is active under the current PixelArtNow configuration.

5. Your controls

Choose Accept or Reject in the one-line cookie notice. To change your choice later, select Cookie settings in the footer. It reopens the same notice; Reject also withdraws a previous acceptance. Close dismisses the reopened notice without changing your choice. Details links to this policy.

You can use browser settings to inspect, block, or delete cookies and site storage. Blocking strictly necessary browser or security features may affect whether the website works, but the current image tools do not require optional analytics consent.

6. Changes

PixelArtNow may update this Cookie Policy when browser storage, security services, analytics, advertising, or applicable law changes. The Last updated date will be revised when the policy changes.

7. Contact

For questions about this Cookie Policy, email support@pixelartnow.com. Do not send images, passwords, payment information, or other sensitive personal information by email. PixelArtNow does not promise a response time or guaranteed delivery.

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