Cookie Policy

1. Your Choices

Basic website statistics and optional Google Analytics have separate controls in Privacy settings. Basic website statistics are on by default, subject to your saved objection, browser privacy signals, available preference storage and the applicable-law requirements described below. The basic-statistics information is independent of the optional Google Analytics choice: leaving the Google Analytics checkbox unchecked does not itself turn off basic statistics. Google Analytics requires an explicit browser choice and a valid signed-in Google session in every location, including when location is unknown. Necessary sign-in, security, language and choice preferences are separate. You can sign in and use the Service without enabling Google Analytics.

Marketing registration presents one optional, initially unchecked Google Analytics choice when no grant is saved. For a new choice, the first unchecked Google Continue highlights it in red without navigating or saving a decision; pressing Continue again with the box still unchecked proceeds without Google Analytics and records a Google Analytics-only refusal. When a refusal is already saved, continuing unchecked proceeds immediately and preserves that refusal; a fresh explicit checked Continue can change it to an opt-in. A saved grant is not requested again. These actions do not change the independent basic-statistics preference. Checking the box permits immediate continuation and records explicit opt-in, but Google Analytics still waits for a valid signed-in Google session. Existing historical broad analytics refusals keep both statistics options off until you explicitly change the relevant choice. Settings and withdrawal remain available. We use sanitised page views and broad confirmed-purchase metrics; we do not send media, prompts, filenames, card details, Stripe session identifiers, account/job identifiers, or full query strings to Google Analytics.

2. Basic Website Statistics

Basic website statistics use limited cookie-free measures to improve the website. Cloudflare Web Analytics, only when configured, measures aggregate page views, navigation and page performance, only on public pages and without query strings. Our own first-party log counts sign-in steps from short labels such as the step reached, the reason a Google prompt ended, the page type and campaign labels; this funnel collector sets no cookie and records no IP address, user agent or visitor identifier, and its log lines are kept for up to 30 days. First-party sign-in counts can remain active when no Cloudflare token is configured. Neither measure is Google Analytics, and neither uses advertising features, session replay or a visitor profile, or is used for advertising, profiling or retargeting. This description of the funnel collector does not mean the entire Service or its infrastructure never processes IP addresses: necessary hosting, network and rate-limit processing is separate.

The Basic website statistics control in Privacy settings lets you turn these basic measures on or off together, free of charge and independently of Google Analytics. We also honour Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals where the browser provides them, and exclude browsers deliberately marked as internal team traffic. The opt-out is a first-party browser preference and is not sent to an analytics provider. Cookie-free measurement is not automatically exempt from data-protection or consent requirements; where applicable law requires consent, we must obtain it before the affected measurement or disable that measurement.

3. Sign-In Cookies

You can decline optional analytics and still sign in and use ClipIntent. Google sign-in requires necessary Google and ClipIntent authentication and session cookies. Choosing to sign in requests authentication; it is not consent to Google Analytics. If you block all necessary cookies in your browser, sign-in and core features cannot work.

4. Analytics and Other Tools

Google Analytics runs only with explicit opt-in and a valid signed-in Google session. There is no automatic regional consent or signed-out Google Analytics measurement. Saved Google Analytics refusals, GPC/DNT and unavailable preference storage keep it off. You may withdraw in Privacy settings without changing your basic-statistics preference. We use analytics for product measurement, not advertising or retargeting, and do not use session replay or heatmaps. Turning off either statistics option does not disable the account, upload/job, billing and security records needed to provide and protect the Service.

Team members can deliberately mark a browser profile as internal on the internal analytics setup page. This first-party marker labels optional analytics events as internal for reporting; it contains no name, email address or account identifier, is not access control, and can be removed on that page. It is separate for each browser profile and temporary in private browsing.

5. Changing Your Choice

Use Privacy settings, linked as "Privacy settings" in the site and application navigation, to review separate Basic website statistics and optional Google Analytics on/off controls. Turning Google Analytics off withdraws its consent and removes reachable Google Analytics cookies from this browser; turning Basic website statistics off stops the basic measures without changing your Google Analytics choice. Previous broad refusals remain effective for both options until you explicitly change the relevant choice. You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Google's privacy information is available in the Google Privacy Policy.

Necessary first-party refusal preferences named clipintent_analytics_denied and clipintent_aggregate_analytics_denied may be retained for up to one year. They contain only the refused statistics scope, no identifier, and preserve the respective choices across sign-in or navigation when browser storage cannot save a new choice. A fully saved explicit opt-in clears the corresponding refusal. Historical broad refusals remain effective until you change the relevant choice.

6. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.

7. Contact

For questions about cookies, contact privacy@clipintent.com.