Cookies

Bunny Shield relies on cookies to support its abuse mitigation features, protect against automated bots, and maintain legitimate user access. These cookies enable the service to validate users efficiently while maintaining security and performance.

Cookie Usage

Each cookie employed by Bunny Shield serves the essential purpose of ensuring that legitimate users can interact with websites protected by this service. At the same time, these cookies are instrumental in preventing abuse and minimizing the impact of bot traffic or other malicious automated behaviour. As these cookies focus exclusively on verifying the authenticity of user interactions, they contribute to a secure and trusted browsing experience without overstepping into the collection of unnecessary or personal data.

Privacy and Compliance

As outlined above, all the cookies listed above are strictly necessary to deliver the services provided by Bunny.net to our customers unless otherwise specified.

Bunny.net encourages customers to disclose the use of these cookies to their end users. Depending on regional legal requirements, you may need to inform your users about the use of these cookies and the reasons behind their presence, ensuring proper consent or disclosure in accordance with local regulations.

• Bunny Shield ensures that these cookies never track user behaviour beyond verifying legitimacy of the browser request. They do not contain personally identifiable information and exist only as short-lived, first-party cookies dedicated to ensuring secure, legitimate user access. By implementing these practices, Bunny Shield maintains a balanced approach, promoting user trust while fulfilling its security obligations.

Cookies

bunny_shield

• The bunny_shield cookie serves as a temporary indicator that a user has successfully completed the JavaScript Proof-of-Work (PoW) challenge. Once set, this cookie helps Bunny Shield recognize validated users without repeatedly subjecting them to the challenge, thereby streamlining subsequent visits and enhancing overall user experience.

bunny_shield_chk

• The bunny_shield_chk cookie functions as a checksum or validation token to ensure the integrity of the first cookie. This second cookie prevents tampering, forgery, or any unauthorized manipulation of the validation data, further reinforcing the legitimacy and security of the user session. Both of these first-party, functional cookies collectively safeguard the user journey, preserve performance, and maintain the highest standards of data protection.

B_ID

• The B_ID cookie is a persistent, first-party identifier used by Bunny Shield’s bot detection system. It assigns a unique ID to each browser session, allowing the system to reliably distinguish between legitimate users and potentially malicious actors. By maintaining this session-level identity, Bunny Shield enhances behavioral analysis and improves the accuracy of long-term bot mitigation strategies without collecting personally identifiable information.

B_BD

• The B_BD cookie is used to capture a detailed, non-invasive fingerprint of the user’s browser environment. This includes characteristics such as rendering behavior, device attributes, and feature support. The fingerprinting process supports Bunny Shield’s efforts to identify automation patterns and detect spoofed or emulated clients, all while preserving user anonymity. As a functional security measure, B_BD reinforces session integrity and contributes to a more robust defense against sophisticated threats.