Pingle sets no cookies at all. It does store a few small things in your browser, and this page explains each one and lets you turn the optional part off.
Last updated 13 October 2026. Pingle is operated by LuxVibeWeb Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under number 16954810, registered office 12 Beech Road, Epsom, KT17 4NH. Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office, reference ZC211919.
No cookies. Not one. No advertising, no third-party trackers, no cross-site tracking, no fingerprinting, and nothing shared with anyone for marketing.
We store a small amount of data in your browser's own storage. Most of it exists purely so the app works: your half-finished event and the links to events you have created. One item is optional: an anonymous id used to count visits, which is off unless you allow it.
Separately, our hosting provider counts page loads by section of the site, such as “create”. That stores nothing on your device and is explained below.
You can change this at any time, and nothing about the service works differently either way. Turning analytics off does not limit any feature.
You have not chosen yet, so it is currently off.
These are stored because they are how the service does the thing you asked it to. Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, storage strictly necessary to provide a service the user requested does not need consent. We would rather list it anyway than leave you guessing.
| Name | What it is for | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|
| pingle_event_draft | Your half-finished event, so a stray tap or a lost signal does not wipe the form. | Until you finish the event, or 7 days. |
| pingle_host_events | The events this browser holds a host link for, so you can find them again without an account. | Until you clear it. Up to 30 events. |
| pingle_consent | Your answer on this page. We have to remember it in order to honour it. | Until you clear it. |
| base44_* items | Your sign-in session, if you create an account. | Managed by our hosting provider, Base44. |
pingle_host_events is worth knowing about. It is what lets the home page say “pick up where you left off” when you have no account. It contains links that grant control of your events, so on a shared or public computer, clear your browser data when you finish.
If you allow it, we store one item, pingle_usage_session, a random id in your browser's session storage. It exists so we can tell that four page views were one person moving through the site rather than four separate people.
| Property | Detail |
|---|---|
| Type | sessionStorage. Not a cookie, and never sent to another site |
| Lifetime | Deleted the moment you close the tab |
| Scope | This site only. It cannot follow you anywhere, or recognise you on a later visit |
| Shared with | Nobody. The counts are stored in our own database |
What we record alongside it:
| Recorded | Not recorded |
|---|---|
| Which page, and which step of the create flow | Your IP address |
| Whether you are on mobile, tablet or desktop | Your browser or device fingerprint |
| Which occasion and theme were picked | Your name, email or phone number |
| Which field blocked you, so we can fix the form | Anything identifying you, even when signed in |
| The site that referred you, hostname only | The full referring address |
| Whether a session was signed in, yes or no | Which account it was |
Never recorded: your links. Host links and invitation links are secrets. Before any page address is stored, the token is stripped out: /manage/abc123… is recorded as /manage/:token. There is an automated test that fails the build if that ever stops being true.
Counts are kept for 25 months, then deleted.
Pingle runs on Base44. Each time a page loads, the site tells Base44 which section of the site it was: only the first part of the address, such as create, manage or rsvp-event. Never the rest of the address, so never an invite or host link. This feeds a simple visit count in Base44's dashboard.
| Property | Detail |
|---|---|
| Stored on your device | Nothing. No cookie, no local or session storage, no id |
| Sent | The section name, as an ordinary request to our own site |
| Who sees it | Base44, our hosting provider, which already handles every request to the site |
| Affected by your choice above | No. Your choice covers storage on your device, and this uses none |
Like any website request, it reaches Base44 with your IP address and browser details, which is how the internet works rather than something we add. We do not receive or use those for analytics.
Everything above lives in your own browser, so you can remove all of it without asking us. In your browser settings, clear site data for pingleapp.co.uk. In Chrome and Edge it is under Privacy and security; in Safari under Manage Website Data; in Firefox under Cookies and Site Data.
One warning: clearing site data also removes pingle_host_events, which is how this browser remembers events you created without an account. If you have not had your host links emailed to you, save them somewhere first, or use Find my event to have them sent again.
Blocking storage entirely will stop draft-saving and the “pick up where you left off” shortcut from working, but you can still create and share events.
Questions about any of this? Email privacy@pingleapp.co.uk.