Cookie policy

A cookie is a small piece of text a website asks your browser to keep and send back on later visits. Sites use them to remember who you are between pages, and — elsewhere on the web — to track what you do. Similar storage your browser offers, such as local storage, is covered here too.

Sign-in is handled by Clerk. Once you sign in, Clerk sets session cookies (their names begin with __session and __client_uat, plus clerk_active_context) so that each page you open knows it is you. Without them you would have to sign in on every page. They are marked secure, are only sent to this site, and expire when your session does — sign out and they are removed. Clerk may set a small number of further cookies for its own security checks; all of them serve sign-in and nothing else.

Cookies that are strictly necessary for a service you asked for do not need your consent under the laws that govern cookies, and there is no way to use Comp Beast without signing in, so there is no switch to turn these off. You can clear them at any time by signing out or by clearing your browser's cookies for this site.

• Push notifications. If you turn on push for a browser, that browser registers a small service worker and keeps a push subscription. Both are yours to remove: turn push off on your account page, or remove the site's permission in your browser settings.
• Sign-in state. Clerk may keep some sign-in state in your browser's local storage alongside its cookies, for the same purpose and with the same lifetime.

We count page views and measure page speed with Vercel Web Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights. Neither sets a cookie, stores anything in your browser, or assigns you an identifier that persists beyond the day; they cannot recognise you on a return visit or on another site. That is why they appear on this page as a reassurance rather than as something to opt out of. If error reporting is switched on, Sentry likewise sets no cookie.

A banner exists to ask permission for cookies that are not needed to run the site — advertising, cross-site tracking, cookie-based analytics. Comp Beast has none of those, so there is nothing to ask permission for, and a banner would only be in the way. If that ever changes, a consent prompt will be added before any such cookie is set, and this page will say so.

Every browser lets you see, block and delete cookies per site; look for "cookies" or "site data" in its settings. Blocking the session cookies will sign you out and stop you signing back in. For anything else, see the privacy policy.