Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains HatchCheck's essential, functional, analytics, and marketing cookie categories and how users can manage preferences.
Version: cookies-0.1-draft-2026-05-04
Effective date: 2026-05-04
Last updated: 2026-05-04
Draft for legal review. HatchCheck should not load analytics or marketing scripts before the required consent is saved.
Cookie Categories
| Essential | Required for security, sessions, routing, rate-limit safety, checkout integrity, and consent storage. Always on. |
|---|---|
| Functional | Optional preferences that improve the product experience without being necessary for core service delivery. |
| Analytics | Optional measurement used to understand product usage. Do not load before consent where consent is required. |
| Marketing | Optional campaign or advertising measurement. Do not load before consent where consent is required. |
Preference Center
Users can accept all, reject non-essential cookies, customize categories, save preferences, and later reopen preferences from the footer.
Global Privacy Control
Where the browser exposes a Global Privacy Control signal, HatchCheck records that signal and defaults non-essential categories off unless the final legal configuration requires a different regional treatment.
Consent Logging
HatchCheck stores preferences locally and attempts to log consent preferences server-side when database persistence is configured.
Cookie Preference Center
Essential cookies are always on. Analytics, functional, and marketing cookies stay off unless you allow them. HatchCheck does not load analytics or marketing scripts before consent.
Current saved preference: analytics off, functional off, marketing off. Policy version: cookies-0.1-draft-2026-05-04.