Cookie Notice
Last updated: July 11, 2026
ChikaBebe uses three cookies. All three are essential, which means the site cannot work without them. We do not use a single cookie for analytics, advertising or tracking, so there is nothing here for you to turn off.
The cookies we set
- A sign-in cookie, which keeps you logged into your account. It is readable only by our server, not by any script, and it expires after 30 days or when you sign out.
- cb_lang, which remembers whether you chose English, Russian or Bulgarian, so the site does not reset to English every time you arrive. It lasts a year.
- cb_cookie_ok, which remembers that you have already seen the notice at the bottom of the screen, so we do not show it to you again. It lasts a year.
That is the complete list. There is no fourth cookie.
Things stored on your device, but not cookies
Your browser also keeps a few things in local storage, on your own device. They never leave it and we cannot read them from our servers: your answers in the workbook, which video lesson you last watched, and where you left off. This is what lets you close the tab and come back without losing your place. Clearing your browser data will erase them.
If you are signed in, your workbook answers are also saved to your account, so they follow you from your phone to your laptop. You can download or delete all of it from your account page at any time.
What we do not use
- No analytics cookies. We do not use Google Analytics or any alternative. We do not measure your visit or know which pages you read.
- No advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no Facebook pixel, no retargeting.
- No social media widgets, no like buttons, and no embedded content that reports back to another company.
- No third-party fonts. This one is worth spelling out: many websites load their fonts from Google, and that quietly sends the visitor's IP address to Google on every single page load, with no cookie involved and no consent asked. ChikaBebe serves its fonts from its own servers, so that does not happen here.
Bot protection
Our forms are protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks that a form is being filled in by a person rather than a script. Turnstile is designed as a privacy-preserving alternative to reCAPTCHA: it does not use cookies to track you and does not follow you across other websites. Without it, our contact form and our sign-in emails could be used to flood a stranger's inbox.
Why there is no accept or reject choice
Consent banners exist because sites set cookies you did not ask for and do not benefit from. We do not set any of those. Under EU and UK rules, cookies that are strictly necessary to provide a service you asked for do not require consent, and every cookie we set falls into that category. The small notice at the bottom of the screen is there to tell you this, not to ask your permission for something we are doing behind your back.
How to remove them
You can delete cookies at any time in your browser settings. If you remove the sign-in cookie you will simply be signed out. If you remove cb_lang the site will start in English again. Nothing breaks permanently.
Questions about cookies or anything else on this page: contact@chikabebe.com.
If you find a cookie on this site that is not listed above, please tell us. That would be a bug, and we would want to fix it.