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Last updated 16 July 2026

How Cortex works

The Cortex site runs entirely in your browser. Everything you see on it is pulled straight from Torn's official API to your device and stays there.

The auction userscript is the one exception, and it works the other way around: it reads no personal data at all and instead asks a Cortex service for public auction prices. Details are in the auction script section below.

Your API key

You paste your Torn API key once. It is saved only in your browser and is only ever sent to Torn's official API at api.torn.com. We never receive it, it is never logged, and you can remove it at any time.

What is stored on your device

  • Your API key.
  • Your settings, like theme and layout.
  • A rolling history of your own stats, used for the trend charts.
  • For the auction tool, a local record of completed sales so prices load quickly on your next visit.

All of this lives in your browser only. No cookies, no analytics, no tracking.

Where your data goes

  • Game data requests go directly to api.torn.com, tagged with comment=Cortex so they show up in your own API log.
  • The site's files are served as static files by Cloudflare Pages, which never sees your key or your data.
  • The auction script asks the Cortex price service for the item and perk IDs on the page you are viewing. It sends no key and nothing that identifies you.
  • FFScouter features are off by default. Only if you turn them on does your browser talk to ffscouter.com, using a separate key you provide.

The auction script

Cortex RW Auction Insights values the items on the Auction House page you have open. It needs no API key and makes no requests to Torn.

Prices come from a Cortex service running on Cloudflare, which collects completed auction sales through Torn's official API and keeps them in a database. That database holds public sale records only: item, perk, roll, rarity, quality, price, time, and the buyer and seller names Torn itself publishes with each sale. It holds nothing about you, and nothing is linked to you.

When you open the Auction House, the script sends that service the item and perk IDs on the page you are viewing so it can return the matching prices. No key, no account details, nothing identifying you. It reads only the page you are actively looking at, only while that tab is visible, and it does not watch other pages or run in the background.

Completed sales are also cached in your own browser so a repeat visit loads quickly. Clearing your browser storage removes that copy.

Removing your data

  1. Remove your key from the tool's settings.
  2. Clear this site's storage in your browser.
  3. Optionally delete the key from your Torn API settings.

Nothing was stored anywhere else, so there is nothing to request from us.

Contact

Questions? Reach Shield [3516052] in Torn.