Cookies

The Hikers doesn't track you. There are no analytics cookies here, no advertising cookies, no fingerprinting, and no third-party scripts watching what you read. We don't plan to add any. The only things we store in your browser are the ones the platform needs to work.

That's also why there's no cookie banner. EU law requires consent for cookies a website doesn't need to provide the service you asked for, and we don't use that kind. This page exists so you can see the full list anyway.

This page covers thehikers.com, run by The Hikers, based in Frederiksberg, Denmark, registered under CVR number 44118599. Our Terms of Service explain who we are and how we handle your data more broadly.

Last updated: 11 August 2026

The cookies we set

Your sign-in. When you sign in, our login provider Supabase sets a cookie that keeps you signed in. Its name starts with sb-, and it's sometimes split into numbered parts. It's how the platform knows it's you on your next visit. Your browser only ever sends it to us, scripts on the page can't read it, and signing out removes it.

Staying signed in. The sign-in cookie is set for up to 400 days and renews itself while you keep using the platform, so in practice you stay signed in until you sign out. That's deliberate: trips are planned over months, and being signed out every week helps nobody. The login page says so too. On a shared or public computer, sign out when you're done; that removes the sign-in cookies right away. What sign-out doesn't clear is the local storage described below, so on a machine that isn't yours, clear the site data too.

th_signed_in. A small marker that says "someone is signed in here" and nothing else; its entire content is the number 1. The public website pages are pre-built for speed and can't see the sign-in cookie itself, so this marker is how the menu knows to show "Open app" instead of "Sign in". It appears when you sign in and disappears when you sign out.

Our development site. While we build, a separate copy of the platform lives at thehikers.app behind a password, and a single cookie called dev_access remembers for seven days that you've entered it. The main site at thehikers.com never sets it.

What we keep in your browser's local storage

Cookies travel to our server with every request. Your browser also has a small storage area that stays on your device, and we use it for conveniences: your theme choice, how you like lists and layouts arranged, drafts of a trip you're planning, your progress through the join form so a closed tab doesn't lose your answers, your pins on the wall, and, if you tick "Remember my email" when signing in, your email address so we can prefill it next time.

The browser never attaches any of this to requests. A draft or a join answer reaches us only when you press send, and the rest never leaves your device at all. It stays there until you clear the site's data in your browser, or until we tidy it up ourselves: old drafts are dropped after a week and join progress after a month, the next time you open those pages. Signing out doesn't clear this storage, which is worth knowing on a computer that isn't yours.

What we don't do

No analytics. No ads. No social media buttons reporting back to anyone. No third-party tracking scripts at all: even the fonts are served from our own servers. The pages come to you from Vercel, our host, and images come from Supabase, our storage provider; the Terms name both. Serving you the page or the picture is all those requests do.

When you support The Hikers, checkout happens on Stripe's own site, not ours. Stripe sets its own cookies there, under its own cookie policy. None of them come back to thehikers.com with you.

Managing cookies

You can delete or block cookies in your browser's settings at any time. If you block them for thehikers.com, the website still reads fine, but signing in stops working: without the cookie, the platform has no way to remember it's you. Clearing the site's data removes the cookies and the local storage together, which also signs you out and discards any unsent drafts.

The legal bit

The EU's ePrivacy rules, and the Danish rules that implement them (we're based in Denmark), require consent for cookies that aren't necessary to provide a service you explicitly asked for. Everything above either signs you in, keeps you signed in on your own device, or remembers a choice you made yourself, stored on your own device. We read the rules the way Denmark's guidance does: that kind of storage is necessary for the service, not tracking, and needs no banner. If we ever want to set a cookie that truly needs consent, we'll ask first, properly, and update this page before we do.

Changes

If what we store changes, this page changes with it, and the date above moves.

Questions

Email hello@thehikers.com.