Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how ooddle uses cookies and similar technologies (browser local storage, session storage) when you use our website and app. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

ooddle's approach: only what's strictly necessary. We do not use advertising cookies, cross-site tracking pixels, or third-party analytics cookies that profile you across the web.

1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file stored on your device when you visit a website. Cookies let the site recognise your browser, keep you signed in across pages, and remember preferences. The Service also uses browser local storage and session storage, which serve a similar purpose. In this policy "cookies" includes all of these.

2. Cookies we use

The cookies we set fall into two categories:

Strictly necessary cookies. Required for the Service to function. Without them you cannot sign in, navigate, or use core features. Specifically:

• An authentication-session cookie that keeps you signed in between pages and expires when you close your browser or sign out.
• A CSRF protection cookie that prevents cross-site request forgery on form submissions.
• A theme preference cookie / local-storage entry that remembers whether you chose light or dark mode.
• Day-scoped local-storage entries that cache your dashboard data so the page paints instantly on revisit; these clear automatically at the next day boundary or on sign-out.

Functional cookies. Improve the experience but the Service still works if your browser blocks them. We use these for:

• Remembering small in-app choices (e.g. whether you've collapsed a card, dismissed an onboarding tip).
• An anonymous session-id used solely to deduplicate page-view counts inside our own infrastructure.

We do not set advertising or marketing cookies. We do not use third-party analytics cookies that profile you for ad-targeting (no Google Analytics ad cookies, no Meta Pixel, no LinkedIn Insight tag, etc.).

3. Email open and click tracking

Emails we send (the daily Insight, the Sunday Letter, transactional messages) include a 1×1 pixel and click-tracking redirects. These exist solely so we can measure aggregate engagement with our own email programme inside ooddle. They are not shared with third-party ad networks. To stop them, set your email client to block remote images, or unsubscribe from the relevant cadence at Settings → Email.

4. How to control cookies

You can clear or block cookies through your browser settings. Modern browsers also let you reject third-party cookies entirely; ooddle's site continues to work because we don't rely on third-party cookies for core functionality. Blocking strictly-necessary cookies will prevent you from signing in.

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, ooddle treats it as a valid request to opt out of any "sale" or "sharing" of personal information. We don't sell or share for cross-context behavioural advertising in any case (see our Do Not Sell or Share notice), so the GPC signal is honoured by default.

5. Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when our practices change. We'll revise the "Last updated" date at the top and, for material changes, give notice through the app or by email.

6. Contact

Questions about this policy? Email us at support@ooddle.com.