Cookies and Local Storage
ClipBack currently uses no advertising or analytics cookies. Everything
listed here is either strictly necessary to provide the service you asked for
(§ 25 Abs. 2 Nr. 2 TDDDG) or stores a preference you set yourself.
Cookies set by ClipBack
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration |
|---|
| session | Keeps you signed in after Google Sign-In and holds the anti-forgery token for forms. Signed, HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite=Lax. Strictly necessary. | 14 days, or until you sign out |
Cookies set by third parties
| Who | When | What |
|---|
| Google (Sign-In) | Only after you click Sign in with Google. The sign-in library is not loaded before that click. | Google sets its own cookies (for example g_state on this site and its account cookies on google.com) subject to Google's privacy policy. |
| YouTube / Google (player) | Only after you have agreed. No player script and no player frame is loaded before that. The notice over the preview image tells you what the click does; the click is both your request for playback (§ 25 Abs. 2 Nr. 2 TDDDG) and your consent to the loading (§ 25 Abs. 1 TDDDG). Your answer is remembered (see the row for clipback_player_consent below, and on your account if you are signed in), so clips start straight away afterwards. Withdraw it with Ask before every clip under Cookie settings; an embed on another website always asks again. | The player is loaded from youtube-nocookie.com (privacy-enhanced mode). Google may still set cookies or use local storage inside the player frame (for example player settings under yt-remote-*), under Google's privacy policy. |
Local storage (your browser only)
These values never leave your browser and are not sent to us.
| Key | Purpose | Duration |
|---|
| clipback-color, clipback-mode | The colour theme and dark/light mode you picked. | Until cleared |
| clipback-volume | Your last player volume. | Until cleared |
| clipback-picker-view | List or tile view in your clip library. | Until cleared |
| clipback_consent | Your choice in the cookie settings dialog, so we do not ask again. Only written if you open the dialog. | Until cleared |
| clipback_player_consent | That you agreed to Google's YouTube player being loaded, and which version of the notice you agreed to — so you are asked once instead of on every clip. Written when you click play. If you are signed in the same answer is also stored on your account, so it applies in your other browsers; withdrawing removes both. | Until withdrawn or cleared |
Preview images
The clip page shows the video's preview image before you click play, and the create page shows a
preview once you have pasted a link. Those images are fetched by our server and delivered from
clipback.tv; your browser does not contact Google for them, no cookie is set and no script runs. The
first request to Google happens when you click play. See the Privacy Policy,
section 6.
Managing your choices
Open Cookie settings (also in the footer of every page)
to see or change your choices at any time. Withdrawing is one click, exactly like accepting:
Ask before every clip revokes your consent to the YouTube player being loaded, on your
account and in this browser at once, and nothing is loaded from Google again until you agree anew.
You can also clear this site's cookies and local storage in your browser. Signing out removes
the session cookie; deleting your account removes the consent record stored on it.
If ClipBack ever adds advertising or analytics that need consent, they will be off by default
and only switched on after you accept them in that dialog.