Cookie Policy
This policy explains the cookies and similar technologies SkedCast uses, and the choices you have. It supplements our Privacy Policy.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. We also use similar technologies such as local storage. We group them into two categories: strictly necessary (essential) and analytics.
2. The cookies we use
| Category | Purpose | Consent |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | keep you signed in, maintain your session securely, protect against cross-site request forgery, and remember essential preferences such as your cookie choice | No consent required (essential) |
| Analytics | understand how the service is used, through pseudonymous usage events, so we can improve it; configured to avoid cross-context behavioral tracking | Set only with your consent where required |
Essential cookies are necessary to deliver a service you have requested, so we set them without requiring consent. We do not use cookies to sell your personal information.
2.1 Every cookie and storage key, by name
The table below lists each key we set, who sets it, why, and how long it lasts. Nothing in the Analytics rows is set until you accept analytics cookies — Google LLC (Google Analytics 4)’s tag is not even loaded before then, and it is never loaded when your browser asserts Global Privacy Control.
| Name | Provider | Type | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sk_access | SkedCast (first party) | Cookie | Strictly necessary | Keeps you signed in — the short-lived session token. | 15 minutes |
| sk_refresh | SkedCast (first party) | Cookie | Strictly necessary | Renews your session so you are not signed out every 15 minutes. | 7 days |
| sk_csrf | SkedCast (first party) | Cookie | Strictly necessary | Cross-site request forgery defence — the app echoes this value back as a header on every change it makes. | 7 days |
| sk_login_mfa | SkedCast (first party) | Cookie | Strictly necessary | Carries your two-factor challenge between the password step and the code step of signing in. | 5 minutes |
| sk_stepup | SkedCast (first party) | Cookie | Strictly necessary | Records that you just re-entered your password, so a sensitive action (disabling 2FA, disconnecting Google) can proceed. | 5 minutes |
| sk_prelaunch_bypass | SkedCast (first party) | Cookie | Strictly necessary | A limited-access cookie used during private testing before launch. It is issued only to people we invite to preview the service and is never set for ordinary visitors. | A short, fixed period |
| sk_ref | SkedCast (first party) | Cookie | Strictly necessary | Remembers which referral link you chose to follow, so the person who invited you is credited and your first-month offer is applied when you sign up. Set only when you press the button on a referral page, never just by opening one. It is read once at signup, and it is not used to profile you or to track you across other sites. | 30 days |
| skedcast.consent.v1 | SkedCast (first party) | Local storage | Strictly necessary | Remembers the cookie choice you made, and which version of this policy you made it against, so we do not ask again. | Until you clear it or this policy changes materially |
| sk_waitlist_code | SkedCast (first party) | Local storage | Strictly necessary | Remembers your waitlist referral code so a return visit shows your place in line without asking for your email again. | Until you clear it |
| skedcast:oauth:* | SkedCast (first party) | Local storage | Strictly necessary | Hands the outcome of a sign-in / connect pop-up back to the page that opened it (the outcome only — never a token). | The pop-up marker is removed as soon as the flow finishes; the result marker is replaced by the next flow and otherwise stays until you clear it |
| _ga | Google LLC (Google Analytics 4) | Cookie | Analytics | Distinguishes one visitor from another with a pseudonymous client id, so we can count visits and see which pages are used. | 2 years (Google’s default) |
| _ga_<measurement id> | Google LLC (Google Analytics 4) | Cookie | Analytics | Keeps the analytics session state for this specific property. | 2 years (Google’s default) |
Google LLC (Google Analytics 4) receives your IP address and the pseudonymous client id in those two cookies, and processes them in the United States under the transfer safeguards listed on our Sub-processors page.
3. Managing your choices
You can control non-essential cookies in the following ways:
- Use the consent banner on your first visit to accept or reject analytics cookies.
- Change that choice at any time from the Cookie preferences or “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” control in the footer of every page — both open the same preferences panel.
- Turn on Global Privacy Control in your browser; we treat it as a valid opt-out and do not load the analytics tag at all.
- Adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies; note that blocking essential cookies may break parts of the Service.
4. “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” & Global Privacy Control
We do not sell personal information, and we do not “share” it for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are used under the CCPA/CPRA. For California residents, the footer of every page carries a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” control that opens your cookie choices, and we honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal as a valid request to opt out of analytics “sharing” where applicable.
Questions about cookies? Contact [email protected].