Browser marks · half a year

What your browser keeps on this garden

You arrive. A small panel asks what we may store. That is the whole arrangement. Ideas That Grow Pte. Ltd. writes as little as we can into your browser. We do not run advertising tags. We do not score you for a media buy. We do not sell a list built from these marks. The privacy page covers personal data in the round. This note is only about storage on the machine in front of you.

Date of this text: 02 September 2026.

A walk through a first visit

Picture the first time you open ideasthatgrow.life. The page can be read without any optional tool. Then the panel titled Cookie choices appears. You have three doors. Allow everything. Refuse the extras. Or open a short tray and pick by hand. Allowing everything means we remember that decision and, if you later open the contact page, a map from Google may load. Refusing the extras means we remember the refusal, so the panel does not chase you from room to room, and the map stays unloaded. Picking by hand lets you leave the map off while still letting the site remember that you answered. Each of those doors writes a first-party mark that remains for six months unless you clear it sooner.

If you have already answered, you will not see the panel again until the six-month shelf ends, or until you wipe the site’s stored data, or until we plant a new optional tool and must ask afresh. Want to change your mind before then? Come back to this note, or clear the site data in your browser settings, and answer again. The file /js/main.js, loaded with defer, is what checks that stored answer. Your reading of the copy does not wait on the panel.

Bed one — marks we need

Some storage is required for the garden to behave as designed. It remembers whether you allowed, refused, or mixed the optional map. It may keep a short session mark so a form field does not forget itself while you type. It is not a profile. It is not shared with an advertising network. In the tray, that first box is shown as on and locked, because we cannot honour a decision we are forbidden to remember. Blocking every cookie in the browser may make the panel reappear more often. The public sentences still render. The HTML and our own style sheet do not depend on a third-party tag to be readable.

Necessary marks are first-party. They stay with ideasthatgrow.life. We do not pass them to a broker. If a quiet anti-clutter field on the contact form is filled by a machine, that submission may be discarded; that is a server decision, not a marketing cookie.

Bed two — the optional map

The second bed is optional. It exists so that contact.php can show a street map of 40 Duxton Hill, #03-01, Singapore 089617, using Google Maps. Nothing loads from Google’s map service until you allow that bed. If you leave it off, you still have the address, the telephone, and the mailbox in ordinary text. You can still find the room. You simply do not pull map tiles into the page.

There is no third bed. We have not planted an analytics suite. We have not planted a social plug-in farm. We have not planted a test harness that would need its own tick. If that ever changes, this page changes first, and the panel asks again.

How long each mark lives

Our own preference record lives for six months from the moment you save it. After that window the panel may return, so a choice is not treated as permanent. Half a year means a frequent visitor is not quizzed weekly. It is short enough that we do not pretend a tick lasts forever. Clear the site data and the record vanishes with it. Session-only marks die when the tab closes.

Tokens that Google may set, once you have allowed the map, follow Google’s own clocks. We do not set those clocks. They may outlast or undercut our six-month shelf. The only duration we promise for a record we write is six months for the preference itself.

Names on the toolshed

First party: Ideas That Grow Pte. Ltd., 40 Duxton Hill, #03-01, Singapore 089617. Our script writes the preference so the panel and the map checkbox stay consistent as you move between rooms. Questions about that record: privacy@ideasthatgrow.life or hello@ideasthatgrow.life.

Named third party: Google, for Google Maps on contact.php. If you allow that bed, the browser may fetch tiles, scripts, and related files from domains Google controls. Google itself may then see a technical address, a browser type, a coarse location inferred from that address, and how you touch the map controls. We are not sent a labelled file about you as a result of that fetch. Google’s published rules for Maps govern that trail. As of this date this garden has not authorised any further third-party cookie supplier on ideasthatgrow.life.

The managed cloud host that serves the Singapore region delivers HTML, CSS, and scripts. We do not treat that host as a cookie vendor. It is not placing a marketing mark on your machine on our behalf. Type for this garden is requested from Google Fonts (Fraunces and Manrope). That request may let Google see a technical address in order to send the type files. That is a display choice. It is not a brief about your organisation. If you block third-party fonts, you still receive the markup and our style sheet.

Saying no, and changing your mind

The shortest refusal is the button that rejects the extras. The map will not load. You can also open the tray, leave the map box empty, and save. Later, if you allowed the map and now want a quieter contact page, return here, use the tray, or wipe the stored data and answer the panel again. Browser settings can block or delete cookies for every site you visit. If you block even the necessary marks, the panel may nag. The public text remains.

Turning off Google products you meet on other websites is something you handle with Google’s own settings and with your browser. This garden does not run those products. Our only ask is that the map bed be a distinct, reversible choice. If the panel is clumsy on the device you are using, you can still reach us by telephone and email: +65 6822 4703 and hello@ideasthatgrow.life, Weekdays 09.00–18.00 Singapore time.

A shelf of six months

When you allow everything, refuse the extras, or save a mixed tray, we write a tiny first-party note that remains for half a year. That note is memory of a choice. It does not let us bolt on extra suppliers later in silence. If we ever added another optional tool, we would rewrite this note and ask you again. Until then, six months on the panel means half a year, unless you change the answer sooner. There is no silent upgrade from refuse to allow. The tray holds two boxes: necessary stays on; the Google Maps box may be switched. Saving commits that pair.

Cookie choices do not replace your rights to see or correct personal data held in our mailboxes and files. Those rights live on the privacy page. A tick in a browser is not a waiver of the 2012 statute.

If we plant something new

If beds, durations, or vendors change, we update this note and the date at the foot. If we add another map, or a measurement script, we will ask you again. We will not stretch an old half-year answer in silence. We may tidy a sentence without wiping your answer if the suppliers and jobs stay unchanged.

Date of this text: 02 September 2026. Last updated the same day. Issued by Ideas That Grow Pte. Ltd., 40 Duxton Hill, #03-01, Singapore 089617.