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What Behind the Doors keeps

Checked October 8, 2026By the Threshold Desk

Behind the Doors holds on to almost no information about its readers. One small setting, the light or dark theme, stays in the reader's own browser tab and is not sent anywhere.

One setting, one tab

The counter sets no cookie, but each view goes to a tallying service with your IP address and browser type. Theme and tool settings may be saved in your browser. It is held in sessionStorage, a small space inside that one browser tab. Closing the tab clears it. Nothing about the choice leaves the browser, and other tabs do not share it.

Serving-now marks on the venue pages work differently. Kitchen and bar hours are kept as weekly time ranges in Edmonton time, and the reader's browser compares them with its own clock. That check runs on the reader's device, so nothing is stored and nothing is sent. Holiday schedules sit outside this review, so a reader should confirm them with the venue directly, on its own site.

What the site never asks for

Behind the Doors has no forms or accounts, so nowhere to enter a name. Its cookie-free visit counter passes your IP address and browser type to an outside service. The site is a guide rather than a casino: no bets are taken, there is no cashier, and no payment details pass through it.

Every paid link points to the same online casino partner; each is tagged Ad, and they appear on no page except the home page. The site is paid a commission for these links, and the partner behind them can change. A reader who follows one leaves this site for the partner's, which has its own privacy rules. Links to venues, regulators and help services are not paid.

Questions

Does Behind the Doors use cookies?

The site keeps one setting: the light or dark theme, held in sessionStorage in the open tab and cleared when that tab closes. There are no accounts and no analytics, and the theme choice is not sent anywhere.

Does the serving-now list know where I am?

It does not know where a reader is. The marks compare weekly kitchen and bar hours, kept in Edmonton time, with the clock in the reader's browser. Location plays no part in the check.

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