1. What This Policy Covers
SweepFeed uses cookies, local storage, and similar browser technologies to keep the service secure, remember choices, measure use and deliver advertising. Which optional technologies are on by default depends on where you are (Section 4 of the Privacy Policy): on by default in the United States with an opt-out, and off until you opt in everywhere else. A provider may use additional identifiers under its own policy once the relevant category is on.
2. Essential Storage
Essential storage supports authentication, security, privacy choices, referral attribution, and continuity of requested actions. Examples currently used by the web service include:
- __user_session and __session — signed session or administrative authentication state, depending on the login surface. The ordinary signed web session has a Duration: 7 days.
- emailForSignInState — a signed, HttpOnly, short-lived value that binds an email sign-in request to a browser and is cleared after use.
- sf_cookie_consent — the current analytics and advertising choices, stored in both a first-party cookie and local storage for up to 180 days.
- sf_do_not_sell — a first-party marker that keeps non-essential analytics, personalized advertising, and sharing disabled after a GPC or account-level opt-out.
- sf_privacy_region — the region used to apply the right privacy defaults (
us,eea_uk_ch,otherorunknown), derived by our hosting provider from your connection. It contains no other information and lasts one day. - sidebar:state, sf_age_verified, sweepfeed_ref, sweepfeed_pending_contest, sweepfeed_entry_return_optout, and sf_daily_shortlist_review_v1 — interface, age-confirmation, referral, and short-lived sponsor-return state when those features are used, plus your “Don't ask me again” choice for the return question and dated shortlist review marks. The sponsor-return value contains no sponsor form data. The time-budget plan stays in temporary page state.
3. Optional Analytics
Analytics. When analytics is on and you have not opted out, SweepFeed loads PostHog to measure pages viewed and left, clicks and similar interactions (without element text or attributes), product events and limited performance metrics. Session replay is currently paused while provider settings are verified. PostHog may set identifiers such as cookies or local storage beginning with ph_. Vercel Web Analytics also counts public pageviews under this choice without setting visitor cookies; private pages and query strings are excluded. SweepFeed does not start analytics while your account-level privacy choice is still loading. Analytics is on by default in the United States and off until you opt in elsewhere.
4. Optional Advertising
Advertising. Google AdSense and SweepFeed's sponsor placements may set or read cookies for delivery, frequency control, fraud prevention and measurement. Personalized advertising — ads informed by prior visits to SweepFeed or other websites — is on by default in the United States until you opt out, and off until you opt in elsewhere. After an opt-out, or when your browser sends Global Privacy Control, SweepFeed stops Google display ads; clearly labeled first-party contextual promotions may remain. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google display ads are currently disabled while SweepFeed completes its certified consent integration. You can change Google's personalized-ad setting at Google Ads Settings. Rejecting optional advertising storage does not prevent clearly labeled direct sponsorships that do not require cross-context tracking.
5. Purchases and Third Parties
Stripe may use its own security and payment technologies when a sponsor or other eligible customer starts a paid transaction. Firebase and Vercel support authentication, hosting, security, and service delivery. SweepFeed does not list an integration here merely because it may be considered for a future feature; this section describes providers tied to current or conditionally available flows.
6. Your Controls
- Use the privacy notice (OK, Turn both off or Manage) or the footer Privacy Settings control to turn optional analytics and personalized advertising off or on for this browser. Activity-based account recommendations have a separate control in Profile Settings.
- Use Your Privacy Choices to opt out of sale, sharing, and targeted-advertising uses described in the Privacy Notice.
- Signed-in users can save the same choice to their account at Privacy Settings.
- Browser controls can delete or block storage, although removing essential session values can sign you out or interrupt a requested flow.
7. Global Privacy Control
When SweepFeed receives a Sec-GPC: 1 signal or the equivalent browser Global Privacy Control value, it treats the signal as an opt-out for that browser. Analytics and session replay turn off, Google display ads stop and only first-party contextual promotions may remain, the durable opt-out marker is set when possible, and a signed-in user can persist the choice to the account. SweepFeed does not treat the older Do Not Track signal as consent because it does not provide the same standardized opt-out instruction.
8. Changes and Contact
We update this page when the browser-storage practices described here materially change. Where law requires notice or renewed consent, we provide it before relying on the changed practice. Questions may be sent to privacy@sweepfeed.com.