COOKIES

We don't set any of our own.

A practical breakdown of which cookies might appear when you use Islamic Prayer Times, who sets them, and how to block them if you'd rather not have them.

Effective date · May 2026
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    What cookies are

    Cookies are small text files stored on your device by the websites you visit. They can be set by the site you're on ("first-party") or by other services embedded into that site ("third-party").

    Cookies are not inherently bad — they can remember your dark-mode preference or your shopping cart. The concern is usually tracking cookies that follow you across the web.

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    First-party cookies — we don't set any

    islamicprayerstimes.com does not set any cookies of its own. There are no analytics scripts, no advertising pixels, no preference cookies, no session cookies. The site is fully static for most pages and stateless for the rest, so there is no need.

    If you visit only the homepage, country listings, or city prayer-time pages, no cookies of any kind are set on your device by anyone.

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    Third-party cookies that may appear

    A small number of cookies may be set by external services embedded in the site. These are all functional — they exist because a specific feature you used loaded code from another provider, not because we are tracking you. The full list:

    • Google Maps Platform

      When you type a city into the search input

      Powers the place-name autocomplete dropdown. Google sets and reads its own cookies on its domain — we never see them.

      Cookies typically set: NID, OGPC, AEC, __Secure-1PSID, __Secure-3PSID

      Read their cookie policy
    • Vercel

      On every request (hosting provider)

      Vercel may set a short-lived bot-mitigation cookie on the islamicprayerstimes.com domain in unusual cases (DDoS protection). It contains no user-identifying data and is not used for tracking.

      Cookies typically set: _vercel_jwt (rare, only when challenged)

      Read their cookie policy
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    How to block these cookies

    Because we don't set first-party cookies, the cleanest approach is to manage third-party cookies in your browser directly — they apply to every site you visit, not just ours.

    • Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data → "Block third-party cookies"
    • Safari: Settings → Privacy → "Prevent cross-site tracking"
    • Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection → "Strict"
    • Brave / Arc / Vivaldi: ship with strong anti-tracking by default — no extra steps needed.

    Note: if you block Google Maps cookies the city autocomplete may stop working. You can still browse cities through the World directory instead.

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    Changes to this page

    If we ever introduce a feature that sets first-party cookies, this page will be updated before that ships and we will say so clearly in our Privacy Policy. The effective date at the top of this page tracks the last revision.

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    Questions?

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