Cookies and storage

What Ridden keeps on your device, why, and for how long.

Ridden shows no cookie banner, and that is not an oversight. We only use what the site needs to work: no tracking, no advertising. Visitor statistics are counted without cookies and without keeping anything that can be traced to you. For functional cookies and statistics like these the law requires that we tell you about them, on this page, not that we ask permission.

Cookies

Language choice1 year

Remembers whether you read the site in English or Dutch, so you don't have to pick again every visit.

Sign-in session8 hours

Keeps you signed in. Only set if you have an account and sign in.

Storage in your browser

Not cookies, but still kept on your device. None of it is ever sent to us — it stays in your browser.

Theme preferenceUntil you clear it

Whether you want the site light or dark.

Profile picture cacheUntil you close the tab

Stops us fetching your profile picture again and again within one visit.

What third parties see

A few parts of the site are served by others. They set no cookies, but they do see your IP address — unavoidably, because your browser fetches those files straight from them.

  • Image CDN — serves the park and ride photos
  • Map tiles — only on pages with a map
  • Typefaces — serves the site's fonts
  • Database and sign-in system — hosted in the EU
  • Video thumbnails — only for videos creators link to rides; the video itself does not play on Ridden
  • Visitor statistics — from our hosting provider: counts page views and visitors without cookies; your IP address is not kept

Clearing them yourself

Everything above can be cleared from your browser settings, under site data for ridden.app. You will be signed out and your language and theme go back to the default. The site keeps working.

If this changes

The moment anything arrives that does set cookies or follows you across sites, the picture changes: consent up front becomes required and a choice screen appears. This page will be updated before anything like that goes live.

Contact

Ridden is run by Lars van de Donk. Questions about your data can go to privacy@ridden.club

Last updated: 13 September 2026