What are cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently and to provide information to the site owners.
What we store
This app sets no cookies. It keeps a few items in your browser's local storage, which stays until it is removed:
- Sign-in (
boi_access_token,boi_refresh_token,boi_user): while you are logged in, your session tokens and the basic details of your account (name, picture), so that you stay signed in between visits. Logging out removes them, and ends the session on our server too. - This notice (
boi_cookie_consent): that you have seen the cookie notice, so that it is not shown again. - Notifications (
boi_notifications_seen): when you last opened your notifications, so that only newer ones are marked as new. - Explore view (
boi_explore_view): whether you last browsed the ideas as threads, to read or as cards, so that Explore opens the same way.
And one item in session storage, which your browser removes when you close the tab:
- Your first sentence (
boi_idea_sentence): the idea you typed on the homepage before joining or logging in (or on the first step of posting, before it is saved), so that you don't have to type it again when you post it. It is strictly necessary for posting the idea you asked to post, and is kept only until you continue: it is removed as soon as it is used.
While you are signed in, an idea you are writing is saved as a draft on our server as you go, not in your browser. It waits under My ideas, Drafts, until you post it or discard it.
Your notification settings are kept with your account on our server, not in your browser.
Statistics without cookies
To improve Bay of Ideas and find what doesn't work, the app sends usage statistics to our own server. Nothing is stored in your browser for them:
- A visit number in memory. When the page loads, the app makes up a random visit number and keeps it only in the open page. Closing or reloading the tab forgets it.
- What is measured: which pages are visited, for how long and how far down; which main buttons are used; how forms are used (time spent in a field, how many changes, whether something was pasted, and the length of the text in broad ranges); how fast pages load; and errors in the app.
- Never what you type. The statistics don't contain the text of your ideas, messages, comments, searches or any other field, nor your password. Searches you submit are handled by our server as described on the privacy page.
- Kept for up to 12 months, on our own servers. No other company receives them, and they don't follow you to other sites.
How we use the statistics, the legal basis and your right to object are on our privacy page.
Third parties
None. The app has no advertising and no third-party analytics, and loads nothing from other sites: fonts, icons and images are served by Bay of Ideas itself, and the usage statistics go to our own server. Links that members add to their ideas and profiles lead to other sites, which have their own policies.
Managing it
Logging out clears the sign-in data. Clearing this site's data in your browser settings removes everything listed above; you will then need to log in again.
The full policy
Cookies are covered in more detail in our privacy policy, along with everything else we do with personal data.
Contact
If you have any questions about our cookie policy, write to hello@bayofideas.com.