The site keeps a small handful of strictly necessary local entries and one optional analytics signal. The full inventory is below in plain language.
A local entry is a small piece of information stored on the visitor's device by the browser. On this site, two strictly necessary local entries are written on first visit: the eighteen-or-older confirmation and the consent record. They are written both as cookies and as localStorage entries so the cabinet remembers the confirmation across pages even when the file is opened from a local file:// URL by a quality-assurance reviewer.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
vqz_age_ok | Cookie + localStorage | Records the visitor's eighteen-or-older confirmation. Only mechanism by which the cabinet renders. | 180 days | Necessary for the visitor's own request (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)) |
vqz_consent_v2 | Cookie + localStorage | Records the visitor's choice on the cookie notice (accept-all, reject-non-essential, or per-category). Used to gate the analytics signal. | 180 days | Necessary for the visitor's own choice (ePrivacy) |
| Signal | Defaults to | Becomes granted only after |
|---|---|---|
analytics_storage | denied | Visitor accepts the cookie notice with the analytics toggle on. |
ad_storage | denied | Visitor accepts the cookie notice with the advertising toggle on. |
ad_user_data | denied | Visitor accepts the cookie notice with the advertising toggle on. |
ad_personalization | denied | Visitor accepts the cookie notice with the advertising toggle on. |
functionality_storage | denied | Visitor accepts the cookie notice with the analytics toggle on. |
personalization_storage | denied | Visitor accepts the cookie notice with the advertising toggle on. |
security_storage | granted | Always granted (anti-fraud, no personal data). |
The cookie notice can be reopened at any time from the small "Cookie settings" pill in the corner of every page. Visitors can also clear both local entries from their browser's site-data settings; the cabinet will simply ask for the eighteen-or-older confirmation again on the next visit.
All major browsers expose a per-site privacy panel where local entries can be cleared individually. Chrome and Edge: settings, then privacy and security, then site settings, then BorealisFalls. Firefox: shield icon in the address bar, then site permissions. Safari on macOS: preferences, then privacy, then manage website data. Safari on iOS: settings, then Safari, then advanced, then website data.
No third-party cookie is set before the visitor accepts the cookie notice. Google Fonts caches by file rather than by visitor and is not used as an identifier. The site does not embed third-party widgets and does not load advertising tags.
This inventory complies with the Yukon's adoption of federal personal information rules under PIPEDA, with PIPA-BC and PIPA-AB for visitors elsewhere in western Canada, with Quebec's Loi 25, and with the GDPR Art. 13 transparency requirements for visitors from the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom.
When this inventory is updated we record the change in the workshop notes on the front of the atrium and bump the version field on the consent record to one. Visitors with an older version see the cookie notice again the next time they open the site.
BorealisFalls is a free social entertainment site for adults. Confirm being eighteen years of age or older to step under the colonnade. The confirmation is stored on this device for one hundred and eighty days and never travels off this device.