Cookies

Cookies are small files a website stores on your device. This Site sets no cookies of its own — no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. Here is everything it keeps in your browser, exactly:

Your progress on the journey

• Roads walked (browser localStorage, portal:v1:seen:…) — remembers which of the paths you have explored, so the banyan knows when every road has known your footsteps. Kept until you clear your browser data. It never leaves your device and is never sent to us.
• This visit’s steps (browser sessionStorage) — the fork’s short-term memory within a single visit. Gone when the tab closes.

Both are functional storage only — the journey works without them; you would simply be asked to walk the roads again.

YouTube, on the Music page

The Music page embeds Akram’s songs in YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). Nothing from YouTube loads until you reach the moonlit screen; once you play a song, YouTube may store data on your device under Google’s privacy policy.

Your control

There is no consent banner because there is nothing non-essential to decline. To remove what is stored, clear this site’s data in your browser’s settings — the journey simply starts fresh. We honour Global Privacy Control and Do-Not-Track by design: there is no tracking to switch off.