This page lists everything CheckBusiness stores in your browser: cookies, and
also the entries we keep in local storage — the rules are the same for both, even
though only one of them is called a cookie.
Nothing here is used for advertising. Analytics is the only optional item, and it
stays switched off until you agree to it.
A cookie is a small file a site asks your browser to keep and send back on the
next request. Local storage does the same job with a different mechanism: the
browser keeps the value until it is removed, and the page reads it with
JavaScript. European rules on cookies cover local storage too, so both are
described here.
What we store and why
Necessary — the site cannot work without these, and they need no consent:
cb_cms_jwt — a cookie holding your signed-in session. It is httpOnly
(JavaScript on the page cannot read it), SameSite=Lax, sent only over HTTPS in
production, and it expires after 7 days.
cb_access_token — a local-storage entry holding the token that unlocks the
analysis engine in your browser. It is valid for at most 2 hours and never
past the end of a paid period.
A session cookie set by our content system for the few seconds of a Google
sign-in round trip; it disappears when the round trip ends.
ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization, analytics_storage —
local-storage entries that record the choice you made in the cookie banner. We
have to store your answer somewhere, including the answer "no". They stay until
you clear them.
Analytics — optional, only after you agree:
_ga and _ga_<id> — Google Analytics cookies that let us count visits and see
which pages are used. Google sets them for up to 2 years. Without your
consent they are never created.
Local storage, spelled out
Three of the entries above are not cookies but local storage: the analysis token,
and the record of your consent choices. We list them because they are stored on
your device just the same, and because you can inspect and delete them yourself in
your browser's developer tools, under "Local storage" for this site.
The analysis token is what makes the engine process your whole file instead of a
short demo. Deleting it signs you out of the engine, not out of the site.
Analytics and your consent
Before you answer the banner, analytics is set to "denied" — the tag is loaded
with that default in place, so no analytics event is sent while we do not have
your answer. When you agree, the same signal is switched to "granted" and Google
Analytics starts counting.
We do not use cookies for advertising or for building profiles, and we do not
share analytics data with anyone else.
Managing your choices
You can change your mind at any time through the cookie preferences link in the
footer of every page. Withdrawing consent stops further analytics collection; it
does not delete what was already collected, which you can ask us to do by writing
to checkbusiness.pl@gmail.com.
Your browser can also block or delete everything described here. If you block the
necessary items, signing in and running a full analysis will stop working — that
is a technical consequence, not a penalty.
Changes to this policy
When we add or remove something stored in your browser, this list changes with it.
The date of the current version is shown at the top of the page.