Cookie Policy
How BoardCraft uses cookies.
BoardCraft uses essential cookies and similar technologies to keep the app secure and working, and gives you a choice about optional analytics and marketing technologies.
Cookie policy details
Effective date: June 20, 2026
Last updated: June 20, 2026
1. About This Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how BoardCraft uses cookies, local storage, session storage, scripts, software development kits, pixels, device identifiers, and similar technologies when you visit or use the BoardCraft website, editor, dashboard, templates, account features, billing pages, and related services.
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
2. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, phone, tablet, or other device when you visit or use a website. They can help a website remember information about your visit, such as login status, security state, preferences, device settings, or previous actions.
Similar technologies can store or access information on your device in other ways. In this policy, we use "cookies" as shorthand for cookies and similar technologies unless the context requires a narrower meaning.
3. Why BoardCraft Uses Cookies
- Keep the Service secure and prevent fraud, bot activity, unauthorized access, and misuse.
- Allow you to create, sign in to, and remain signed in to your account.
- Verify email status, route users correctly, and protect restricted areas of the Service.
- Remember cookie choices and privacy preferences.
- Save certain editor, interface, font, color, and account preferences.
- Support billing, subscription, checkout, and account-management workflows.
- Understand how users interact with BoardCraft when analytics consent is enabled.
- Diagnose technical issues, crashes, and performance problems.
- Measure product communications and marketing activity where permitted and enabled.
4. Categories We Use
Strictly necessary cookies
These are required for BoardCraft to function securely and correctly. They support authentication, session management, protected app routing, email-verification checks, admin/editor access controls, account restrictions, billing flows, security, and consent preference storage. Because these technologies are necessary to provide the Service you request, they may be used without consent where applicable law allows.
Functional preference technologies
These help BoardCraft remember choices such as recent colors, recent fonts, editor state, interface preferences, dismissed notices, and similar settings. Some preferences are saved in localStorage or sessionStorage rather than traditional cookies.
Analytics and performance cookies
Analytics and performance technologies help us understand product usage, page views, feature adoption, export activity, and technical performance. BoardCraft uses Firebase Analytics only after analytics consent is enabled. Sentry may be used for error reporting, diagnostics, security monitoring, and performance monitoring.
Marketing cookies
Marketing technologies may help measure campaign effectiveness, waitlist/signup activity, product lifecycle communications, and promotional activity. BoardCraft may use Loops for marketing communications and product-related messages. Browser-side marketing cookies, pixels, retargeting scripts, or similar tools stay off unless you enable marketing cookies. BoardCraft does not load ad pixels by default.
Third-party service technologies
Some BoardCraft features rely on third-party services. Firebase and Google Cloud support authentication, analytics, storage, and infrastructure; Cloudflare Turnstile supports abuse prevention; Freemius supports checkout and subscription management; Sentry supports diagnostics; Loops supports communications; and Google services may support sign-in, fonts, or related functionality. Third-party providers may process information under their own policies when you interact with their services.
5. Cookie and Storage Table
| Category | Purpose | Examples | Consent | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Authentication, signed-in sessions, routing, protected app access, email verification checks, account restrictions, security, and core app features. | boardcraft-session, boardcraft-role, boardcraft-email-gate, boardcraft-banned, Firebase authentication, BoardCraft server cookies | Not optional where legally exempt | Session to about 30 days; the server session cookie is up to 7 days |
| Consent preferences | Remember whether you accepted all cookies, rejected non-essential cookies, or chose analytics and marketing preferences. | boardcraft_cookie_consent_v1 in localStorage | Required to remember your choice | Until you clear browser data or BoardCraft updates the consent version |
| Security and anti-abuse | Protect contact, waitlist, account, checkout, and app workflows from automated abuse, fraud, and malicious traffic. | Cloudflare Turnstile, BoardCraft security checks | Usually not optional where used for security | Session or provider-defined duration |
| Functional preferences | Remember editor choices, interface state, recent colors, recent fonts, and similar app preferences. | BoardCraft localStorage, sessionStorage, editor and font preference storage | Depends on purpose and applicable law | Session or until cleared/reset |
| Analytics and performance | Measure page views, feature usage, product events, authenticated usage state, errors, diagnostics, and performance. | Firebase Analytics, Sentry | Yes where required; Firebase Analytics starts only after analytics consent | Provider-defined duration |
| Marketing | Measure product communications, waitlist/signup activity, lifecycle events, and future browser-side marketing or attribution scripts if enabled. | Loops, BoardCraft marketing events, future marketing scripts | Yes where required; browser-side marketing cookies stay off unless enabled | Provider-defined duration |
| Billing and subscription | Load checkout, process subscription workflows, manage customer portals, prevent payment fraud, and confirm billing status. | Freemius checkout and customer portal technologies | Depends on provider purpose and applicable law | Provider-defined duration |
This table describes categories of use rather than every provider cookie that may exist at a given time. Provider cookie names, expiration periods, and storage behavior can change as third-party services update their systems.
6. Local Storage and Similar Technologies
BoardCraft uses browser storage in addition to traditional cookies. For example, your cookie preference is stored in localStorage using boardcraft_cookie_consent_v1. BoardCraft may also use localStorage or sessionStorage for recent colors, recent fonts, editor preferences, temporary UI state, and other app settings.
Local storage and similar technologies can remain on your device until you clear browser data, change your browser settings, or BoardCraft removes or replaces the stored value. Where required by law, we will obtain consent before using non-essential local storage or similar technologies.
7. How We Obtain Consent
Where required by applicable law, BoardCraft asks for your consent before placing or accessing non-essential cookies or similar technologies. Our cookie consent tool allows you to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or choose whether to allow analytics and marketing technologies.
Your consent is voluntary. Public parts of BoardCraft remain available without accepting non-essential cookies, although some specific features may need essential cookies or third-party technologies to function. BoardCraft does not treat silence, continued browsing, inactivity, or closing the cookie banner as consent where applicable law requires affirmative consent.
8. Managing Your Preferences
You can change your analytics and marketing cookie choices at any time from the "Cookie settings" link in the site footer. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before withdrawal.
You can also use your browser settings to view cookies, delete cookies, block third-party cookies, block all cookies, or clear local storage and other browsing data. Browser controls vary by browser and device.
Blocking or deleting cookies may affect BoardCraft functionality, including sign-in, account access, editor preferences, checkout, exports, template previews, protected media, and security controls.
9. Do Not Track and Browser Privacy Signals
Some browsers offer "Do Not Track" settings or similar privacy signals. Because there is no universal standard for interpreting all Do Not Track signals, BoardCraft may not respond to every such signal.
BoardCraft does not currently sell personal information for monetary consideration or knowingly share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. Where applicable law requires us to recognize legally valid browser-based privacy preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control or similar signals, we will process those signals in accordance with applicable law.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our use of cookies, local storage, service providers, legal obligations, or BoardCraft features. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date and may provide additional notice through the Service, by email, or through our cookie preference tool.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, contact BoardCraft at support@boardcraft.app. For more information about how we handle personal information, please review our Privacy Policy.