COOKIES

How and why we use cookies

Cookies keep you authenticated, remember preferences, and power lightweight analytics. We keep them minimal and transparent.

Last updated December 30, 2025

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1. What are cookies?

Cookies are tiny text files stored on your device so websites can remember you. Venture Creative Media also uses local storage for low-latency preferences inside the Chrome extension and dashboard.

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2. How we use cookies

Every cookie serves one of three purposes. When a cookie is optional we label it clearly in the product.

Essential

  • Authentication cookies keep you signed in securely across tabs and reloads
  • Security cookies detect suspicious activity and prevent abuse

Preferences

  • Remembers language, theme, and workspace selections
  • Stores lightweight UI state such as collapsed sections or filter choices

Analytics

  • Helps us understand aggregate usage so we can improve navigation and performance
  • Collects anonymous metrics such as page views, scroll depth, and feature adoption

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3. Third-party services

We rely on a handful of infrastructure partners. They may place their own cookies when strictly necessary for authentication or analytics.

  • Vercel Analytics for latency, Core Web Vitals, and deployment health
  • Google OAuth when you choose to authenticate with your Google account
  • GitHub OAuth for teams that use GitHub sign-in
  • PostHog (self-hosted) for product analytics with IP masking enabled

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4. Your choices

You stay in control. Blocking non-essential cookies has no effect on billing or access.

  • Update browser settings to block or delete cookies at any time
  • Use private browsing windows to limit persistence
  • Opt out of analytics cookies via the in-product preferences panel
  • Disable third-party cookies if your organization requires it (core features will still work)

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5. Retention

Cookies stick around only as long as necessary to deliver their function.

  • Authentication: 7 days or until you sign out
  • Preference: up to 12 months so we remember your setup
  • Analytics: 24 months maximum for trend analysis

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6. Questions

Email privacy@venturecreative.media if you need more clarification or a signed copy of this policy.

Compliance

We follow SOC 2 and GDPR best practices. Need a signed copy or DPA? Reach out to our legal team.

Contact Legal

legal@venturecreative.media

Email

legal@venturecreative.media

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