Two cookies, and one of them asks.

Why there is no banner

A consent banner exists to ask permission before a site stores or reads something on your device that it does not strictly need. This site stores nothing of the kind when you arrive. There is no third-party analytics, no tag manager, no advertising pixel, no session recorder, and no third-party font. The site counts its own visits, but with no cookie and nothing stored on your device and without keeping your address, which is the anonymous audience measurement that needs no consent; the privacy page says exactly what is counted — every byte of this page comes from this domain, so no other company learns your address by you reading it.

Two kinds of page are the exception, because they cannot work without it. Where you can sign in with Google — the sign-in page, the account page before Google is linked, and the page that adds a television to your licence — Google’s sign-in script loads from accounts.google.com. On the card payment page, Stripe’s script loads from js.stripe.com and may set cookies of its own to detect fraud. Those are Google’s and Stripe’s, under their own policies; loading either tells that company your IP address and which page you opened. The privacy notice lists both.

There is exactly one cookie here that is not strictly necessary, it is set on exactly one page, and that page asks you first. A question put where it applies is worth more than a wall shown to everyone, and it is what the law asks for rather than a softer substitute.

The two of them

lumen_session

Kind	Strictly necessary
Lifetime	Until you sign out, or 30 days
What it does	Keeps you signed in to your account — and, for a partner, to their partner space. Set only after you sign in, first-party, and read only by this site and its API.
Consent	Not required — without it there is no account to look at.

lumen_aff

Kind	Not necessary — asked for
Lifetime	90 days
What it does	Records which partner referred you, so their commission can be calculated if you buy. Set on the partner-link page only, and only if you say yes there.
Consent	Asked before it is set. Declining sets nothing and costs you nothing.

Changing your mind about the partner cookie

Withdrawing consent has to be as easy as giving it. Deleting the lumen_aff cookie in your browser removes it, and nothing re-creates it unless you follow another partner link and say yes again. You can also write to support@lumentv.app and ask us to drop the click record on our side.

Refusing it changes nothing about the price you pay or what the product does. The only thing it changes is whether a partner is credited.

On a partner’s own phone

Nothing more than for anybody else. A partner signs in like any account holder, with Google or with an email address and a password, and the lumen_session cookie above is how the pages a device’s code opens know to offer that partner the button that attaches the device to them. Signing out ends it.

Until 1 October 2026 the partner page kept a partner key in the browser’s local storage, under lumen_partner. It is no longer used, and the partner pages delete it if they find it.

Light or dark

The button beside the menu switches this site between its light and its dark theme. Until you press it, nothing is stored: the site follows what your device asks for. Once you press it, your choice is kept in this browser’s own storage, under lumen-theme, holding the word light or dark and nothing else. It is never sent to us or to anybody, and it is not a cookie. Keeping a setting you asked for is what the law calls strictly necessary, so it needs no consent; clearing this site’s data in your browser removes it.

What the television stores

Both television apps, the one for LG and the one for Android TV and Google TV, keep your playlists, favourites, groups, hidden channels, parental locks, profiles, settings and where you were in what you were watching, in the television’s own storage. That is not a cookie and it does not leave the set by itself: it is how the app remembers your setup between switching it on and off. A backup is the only copy that travels, and only because you took one — through our server for ten minutes on its way to your phone, and into your account only if you keep it there.

On Android TV and Google TV, that storage is the app’s own, which other apps cannot read. It holds the settings and lists above, with the playlists, the licence, the television’s secret and the list of what you were watching encrypted under a key the Android keystore holds; the channels, films, series and programme guide read from your playlist, in a database; and the pictures they name, in a cache. Recordings are kept apart, in the app’s own folder on the television or on a drive plugged into it, and that folder is less private: on Android 8, 9 and 10, another app you have allowed to read the television’s storage can read it too, and a drive can be read by any computer it is plugged into. The app opts out of Android’s device backup, so none of it is copied to a Google account. Uninstalling the app deletes it, and clearing the app’s storage in the television’s settings deletes the setup; the privacy notice says what happens to recordings on a drive.

Trailers. When a trailer plays, the app shows YouTube’s own player, from youtube-nocookie.com, inside the app, and YouTube may keep identifiers of its own in the app’s web storage, under Google’s privacy policy. Nothing asks you first. On the home screen a trailer starts by itself after a moment, because Autoplay previews is on unless you turn it off (an Android television short of memory starts with it off). To stop that, open Settings → Home screen on the television and turn off Autoplay previews; a trailer then loads only when you ask for one on a film’s page. Clearing the app’s storage deletes what YouTube kept. This is true of the Android app, and of the LG app whenever a trailer plays on it. The privacy notice says what else YouTube receives.

Related

The privacy notice covers everything that is not a cookie: what the account holds, what a television sends, who else sees any of it, and how long any of it is kept.