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Cookies

UYB uses storage to keep the app working.

This page describes essential cookies and device storage in plain language. It should be reviewed before broad public launch.

Essential account cookies.

UYB uses authentication cookies through its sign-in provider so users can create accounts, stay signed in, and access private journals.

Device draft storage.

UYB can save unfinished writing and profile edits on the device so a call, reload, or connection loss is less likely to wipe the user's work.

Notifications and app setup.

UYB may remember local notification setup and delivered in-app notification IDs so the app does not repeat the same alert.

Marketing cookies.

UYB should not add marketing or analytics cookies without a clear consent plan, privacy review, and user-facing controls.

Trust receipt

A quick read of what this device may remember and what stays out of tracking.

App basicsKeeps sign-in and recovery working

Essential storage helps UYB remember sign-in, saved drafts, profile edits, and app setup on this device.

Your choiceOptional tracking stays optional

Product analytics and marketing storage stay off unless you allow them. You can change the choice on this device.

ProtectedPrivate writing stays out

Journal answers, drafts, reveal text, invite links, names, emails, and comfort notes are not cookie or analytics data.

ResetClearing storage starts fresh

Clearing browser storage resets cookie choices and device-only recovery. It does not change journal privacy rules.

essential storage is separated from optional analyticsanalytics has a small allowlistmarketing consent is separateprivate words are listed as never collect

Cookie choices help the app remember safe settings. They must not be used to read, score, summarize, train on, or market from private journal content.

Choose first

Start with the closest need. These choices are about device storage and optional tracking, not private journal content.

Keep the app workingEssential storage

Sign-in, draft recovery, offline shell behavior, and profile edits need essential storage.

Always on
Help improve broken flowsProduct analytics

Optional analytics can help find stuck screens without using private answers or reveal text.

Optional
Control marketing storageMarketing storage

Marketing storage stays off unless you choose it and must never include private journal content.

Optional
Start over on this deviceReset choices

Clearing browser storage resets cookie choices, local drafts, and device-only app setup.

Device only

Cookie choices must not expose journal answers, drafts, solo notes, reveal text, invite links, account secrets, or another person's private writing.

Preference controls

Your privacy choices stay visible.

The cookie panel lets you save essential-only or optional storage choices on this device. Optional choices do not turn on private journal tracking.

Always onEssential storage

Keeps sign-in, saved drafts, app setup, and private journal recovery working.

Off unless allowedProduct analytics

Would help UYB understand broken flows without using private journal text.

Off unless allowedMarketing cookies

Would require separate consent and must never include private journal content.

Current storage key: uyb:v1:cookie-preferences. Clearing browser storage resets this choice.

The controls include Allow product analytics for safe product-status events only. Safe analytics events use route groups, status labels, and device class without private writing.

Analytics boundary

Analytics should only measure the product, not private writing.

If UYB turns on optional product analytics later, the event map must stay small, consent-based, and useful for fixing broken flows.

NavigationWhich public or app area opened

Route group, device type, and whether a screen loaded. Do not store invite codes, journal IDs, names, or answer text.

Flow statusWhere a flow got stuck

Save success, validation state, draft restored, reveal ready, or invite copied. Keep it to status labels, not the private words.

PreferenceWhich optional setting changed

Consent state, reminder kind, theme choice, guide style, or support mode. Do not record focus notes or comfort notes.

ReliabilityWhat failed technically

Page load failure, save error kind, offline state, or notification delivery state. Do not include private form values.

Consent rules
  • Analytics stays off unless the user allows product analytics.
  • Marketing consent is separate from product analytics consent.
  • Events should use route groups and status labels instead of private IDs or text.
  • Analytics must be reviewed before broad public launch and again before adding any new event family.
Never collect
  • journal answers
  • draft text
  • solo notes
  • vent text
  • reveal text
  • private reflections
  • invite links or invite codes
  • names, email addresses, passwords, or one-time codes
  • focus notes or comfort notes
  • another person's private writing
Allowed events

Safe event allowlist.

Only these product events should be considered after explicit analytics consent. New event families need review before they ship.

public_route_viewednavigationroute_group, device_class, signed_in_state
guided_flow_step_seennavigationflow_name, step_id, route_group
draft_recovery_statusflow-statusdraft_kind, status, storage_scope
journal_status_changedflow-statusstatus, viewer_role, route_group
preference_savedpreferencepreference_group, setting_key, setting_state
notification_status_seenpreferencechannel, event_kind, status
safe_error_seenreliabilityerror_area, safe_error_kind, route_group
offline_recovery_statereliabilitynetwork_state, recovery_surface, route_group
Property rule

Use short status labels, route groups, and device classes. Never send raw IDs, invite codes, free text, names, emails, or private writing.

Review rule

Any analytics event outside this allowlist should be treated as blocked until privacy and product review approve it.

Optional analytics cannot be used to read, score, summarize, train on, or market from private journal content.