Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They serve various purposes including remembering preferences, maintaining sessions, and analyzing usage patterns. Cookies can be "first-party" (set by the website you visit) or "third-party" (set by external services embedded in the website).

We use only strictly necessary first-party cookies required for the Service to function:

PreConsent does not use any of the following on our own website:

• Google Analytics or any third-party analytics cookies
• Facebook Pixel, Meta tracking, or any advertising pixels
• DoubleClick, Google Ads, or any retargeting cookies
• Hotjar, Clarity, or any session recording tools
• Browser fingerprinting techniques (canvas, WebGL, AudioContext)
• Cross-site tracking or third-party data sharing cookies

We believe a pre-consent auditing platform must lead by example. If we detect any of these techniques on other websites, we certainly should not employ them ourselves.

When you use PreConsent to scan a website, our scanner detects and records cookies set by that website. It is important to distinguish:

• Scanned cookies are cookies detected on third-party websites you choose to scan. These are stored in your scan results as evidence data.
• Our cookies are only the essential authentication cookies listed above, used on preconsent.io itself.

Scan results may include cookie names, domains, expiry dates, and classification data. This information describes the scanned website's behavior, not PreConsent's own tracking practices.

In addition to cookies, we use browser local storage to persist your authentication state across page reloads. This data is:

• First-party only (preconsent.io)
• Used exclusively for authentication and session management
• Cleared when you sign out
• Not shared with any third parties

Since we only use strictly necessary cookies, there is no cookie consent banner on preconsent.io. Essential cookies are exempt from consent requirements under GDPR Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive, UK PECR Regulation 6, and CPRA.

You can still manage cookies through your browser settings:

• Block all cookies: You can configure your browser to block all cookies, but this will prevent you from signing in to the Service.
• Delete cookies: You can delete existing cookies at any time through your browser settings.

PreConsent respects Do Not Track (DNT) browser signals. Since we do not employ any tracking technologies, there is no tracking behavior to disable in response to DNT headers.

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. If we begin using any new categories of cookies beyond strictly necessary ones, we will update this page and implement appropriate consent mechanisms before deploying them.

If you have questions about our use of cookies, please contact us through our contact page.