Cookies & Local Storage
What stays in your browser
Flight Outlier uses browser storage to keep you signed in and remember useful app state. We do not currently deploy advertising or third-party analytics cookies.
The short version: The member app primarily uses local storage rather than a traditional authentication cookie. Clearing site data can sign you out and remove device-only settings, recent conversation context, or local saves.
1. Cookies, local storage, and caches
A cookie is a small value a website asks a browser to send back with later requests. Local storage is information a site saves in the browser but that the browser does not automatically attach to every network request. A service-worker cache holds app files or previously retrieved resources so pages can load reliably and, in limited circumstances, offline.
All three are forms of browser-side storage, but they work differently. This notice uses “storage technologies” to refer to them together.
2. Storage Flight Outlier currently uses
On a narrow screen, scroll this table left or right to read every column.
| Purpose | What may be stored | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
| Account session | A session token used to recognize a signed-in member. The app currently holds this in local storage and sends it when making authenticated requests. | Until it expires, you sign out, it is revoked, or you clear site data. |
| Appearance and interface | Theme, filter choices, install prompts already shown, and similar interface settings. | Until changed or site data is cleared. |
| Travel preferences and planning | Device-side copies of preferences, watchlist items, point balances, filters, and related planning state. Signed-in versions may also exist in your Flight Outlier account. | Until changed, synchronized, removed by the app, or site data is cleared. |
| Recent AI context | A limited recent conversation and query context used to keep the AI assistant coherent on that browser. | Rolling, limited history until replaced or site data is cleared. |
| Performance and continuity | Feed or result caches, version information, static app files, icons, and other resources needed to load and update the app. | Until stale, replaced by a new version, evicted by the browser, or site data is cleared. |
| Infrastructure security | Cloudflare or another infrastructure provider may use a strictly necessary cookie or similar identifier to protect traffic, manage abuse, or keep a request working. | For the operational or security period set by the provider. |
Some information shown in the app is stored on Flight Outlier’s servers as part of your account, even if the browser also holds a local copy. Clearing browser data does not necessarily delete server-side account information. To request account-data deletion, follow the process in the Privacy Notice.
3. What we do not currently use
Flight Outlier does not currently use:
- third-party advertising cookies;
- cookies that build a cross-site behavioral profile;
- third-party website analytics cookies; or
- cookie-derived personal information to set travel prices.
Optional newsletter providers and third-party sites you reach through Flight Outlier may use their own tracking links, pixels, cookies, or similar tools. Their notices and controls apply once you interact with their service. Flight Outlier does not control storage set on a separate airline, loyalty, booking, or affiliate site.
Because the current site does not deploy optional advertising or analytics cookies, it does not currently present a cookie-consent banner. If we add nonessential technologies, we will update this notice and provide notice or choice before use where required.
4. Your controls
Most browsers let you view, delete, or block cookies and site data by site. Look for settings labeled “Privacy,” “Cookies and site data,” “Storage,” or “Clear browsing data.” You can also use private-browsing mode to limit what remains after a session.
Clearing or blocking Flight Outlier storage can affect the app. You may be signed out, device-only preferences or saves may disappear, and offline or cached content may need to download again. Blocking all storage may prevent account and planning features from working.
Signing out removes the active session credential used by the app, but other functional settings may remain on that browser. On a shared or public device, sign out and clear the site’s stored data when you finish.
5. Privacy signals
Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals are described in the Privacy Notice. Because we do not currently sell personal information or use cross-context behavioral advertising, those signals do not currently change which storage technologies Flight Outlier deploys.
6. Changes to this notice
We will update this notice if our storage technologies or their purposes materially change. The date at the top shows the current version.
7. Questions
Email storage or privacy questions to [email protected].