Cookie Policy
Last updated: September 27, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains what browser cookies are, which ones SINK uses today, and how you can manage them.
1. Introduction
Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser so it can work across pages. SINK only uses the cookies it needs to sign you in and remember your language. Some player and interface preferences are kept in your browser's storage instead.
2. Strictly necessary cookies
Every cookie SINK sets is ours, and none of them track you. One keeps you signed in, one recognises this browser, two remember your language, and the rest only last the few minutes a sign-in, account link or email change takes. Without the sign-in cookies you can't use the parts of SINK that need an account.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Duration | First or third party |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Host-sink_session | Keeps you signed in to your SINK account and protects what you do while signed in. Only the SINK website can read it. | Up to 90 days. You're signed out sooner if you don't use SINK for 30 days, and staying active doesn't extend the 90 days. | First-party |
| __Host-sink_access | Lets the player start an audio stream without checking with your account first. Only the SINK website can read it. | As long as you're signed in. It's renewed while you use SINK and removed when you sign out. | First-party |
| __Host-sink_installation | Recognises this browser as one device, so signing in again doesn't add a new device to your account. Never used for advertising or tracking. | 400 days, or until you clear your cookies | First-party |
| __Secure-sink_login_continuation | Holds your sign-in open while you enter the code we emailed you. | Until you finish signing in or close the browser, and never more than a few minutes | First-party |
| __Secure-sink_oauth_google, __Secure-sink_oauth_apple | Makes sure a Google or Apple sign-in finishes in the same browser that started it. Also used when you link one of those accounts, change your email or delete your account. | 12 minutes | First-party |
| __Secure-sink_oauth_continuation | Remembers where you were after signing in with Google or Apple, when you still need to enter an emailed code, confirm it's the same account or confirm deleting your account. | 10 minutes | First-party |
| NEXT_LOCALE | Remembers the language you last used, so opening sink.fm takes you straight to it. | Until you close your browser | First-party |
| sink_language | Remembers your account's language, so a link in another language opens in yours. | Until you sign out or clear your cookies, and at most 400 days | First-party |
3. No analytics, advertising, or tracking cookies
SINK performs no website or product analytics. There is no analytics tag, no measurement or advertising cookie, no remarketing pixel, and no third-party tracker on any page — so there is nothing to consent to and no analytics preference to manage.
4. How to manage cookies
Most browsers let you inspect, block, or delete cookies in their privacy or security settings. If you clear or block the SINK session cookie, you may be signed out and need to sign in again.
5. Contact
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, contact hello@sink.fm.