Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how MegDB.Com uses storage technologies in your browser, what choices you have and how to control them.

MegDB.Com uses browser localStorage (not traditional HTTP cookies) as its primary storage mechanism. This was a deliberate architectural decision to ensure your personal data never leaves your device and is never transmitted to our servers.

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website when you visit it. They are sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises the cookie.

Key types of cookies:

• Session cookies: Expire when you close your browser
• Persistent cookies: Remain on your device until deleted or expired
• First-party cookies: Set by the website you are visiting
• Third-party cookies: Set by a domain other than the one you are visiting
• Essential / Strictly Necessary: Required for the website to function
• Analytics / Performance: Measure how a website is used
• Marketing / Advertising: Track users for targeted advertising

MegDB.Com chose localStorage to ensure your data cannot be read by our servers or any third-party network request.

MegDB.Com sets exactly three localStorage items:

These are the only storage items MegDB.Com sets. We do not set any items for advertising, tracking or analytics.

5.1 TMDb (The Movie Database)
MegDB.Com loads data and images from TMDb's servers (api.themoviedb.org, image.tmdb.org). TMDb may set cookies or use other storage in accordance with their Privacy Policy (themoviedb.org/privacy-policy).

5.2 YouTube / Google
When you click the play button to watch a trailer, a YouTube player is loaded. At that point YouTube may set cookies including:

• PREF — YouTube user preferences
• YSC — Session tracking to prevent abuse
• VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE — Viewing statistics

These cookies are controlled by Google and subject to their Cookie Policy (policies.google.com/technologies/cookies). Trailers are never autoloaded— YouTube cookies are only set if you click the play button.

MegDB.Com explicitly does NOT use:

• Google Analytics, GA4, Google Tag Manager
• Facebook / Meta Pixel, Twitter / X Pixel, TikTok Pixel
• Hotjar or Microsoft Clarity (session recording)
• Segment, Amplitude or any analytics platform
• Any demand-side advertising platform (DSP)
• Retargeting, remarketing or cross-site tracking
• Device fingerprinting

Delete MegDB.Com localStorage items:

• Chrome: F12 → Application → Local Storage → megdb.com → delete keys
• Firefox: F12 → Storage → Local Storage → megdb.com → right-click → Delete All
• Safari: Develop → Show Web Inspector → Storage → Local Storage
• Edge: F12 → Application → Local Storage → megdb.com

Or: Browser Settings → Privacy → Clear browsing data → Cached images and files & Cookies → Clear.

Block third-party cookies (including YouTube):
Modern browsers allow blocking all third-party cookies in settings. Extensions such as uBlock Origin provide additional control.

MegDB.Com's own localStorage is strictly functional and does not require consent under the EU ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) or the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), because it is used solely to provide features you have explicitly requested.

Third-party cookies (YouTube) are loaded only when you take an explicit action (clicking the play button). We do not present a cookie consent banner for our own storage because we set no non-essential cookies on our side. If integrations expand in the future, a consent mechanism will be implemented before those integrations go live.

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our storage practices or for legal or regulatory reasons. The “Last Updated” date at the top reflects the most recent revision.

Questions about this Cookie Policy: megdb.com/contact — subject line “Cookie Policy Enquiry”.