Cookies

We use the cookies we need to keep you signed in, remember your preferences, and process payments. If you accept optional cookies, we also load Google AdSense, which sets advertising cookies to show and measure ads. We do not run session-replay tools, and we never sell cookie data.

A cookie is a tiny file your browser stores when you visit a website. The next time you come back, your browser sends the cookie to the site, which can use it to recognise you. Modern browsers also support similar mechanisms (localStorage, IndexedDB); we refer to all of them as "cookies" for short on this page.

Strictly necessary

These keep you signed in and let us serve your account securely. Without them you can't use the parts of the service that need an account. They are set by us and live only on the ForensicSpot domain.

Preferences

A small amount of local storage we use to remember UI choices you make — for example, that you dismissed a particular nudge and don't want to see it again for a while. Nothing identifying.

Payments (during checkout only)

When you open the Razorpay payment modal, Razorpay sets its own cookies on its checkout domain so it can process the transaction. Those cookies are governed by Razorpay's privacy policy, not ours. They are not set on the ForensicSpot domain and don't persist outside the checkout flow.

Analytics (optional)

If you accept optional cookies, we load Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights. They are cookieless and privacy-friendly: they measure aggregate page views and load performance only, and don't track you across other sites. They load only after you choose "Accept all", and reject optional cookies and they never load.

Advertising (optional)

If you accept optional cookies, we load Google AdSense to show ads on public content pages. Google sets its own cookies to serve, frequency- cap, and measure those ads and to detect invalid clicks. They load only after you choose "Accept all"; reject optional cookies and AdSense never loads. You can manage how Google personalises ads at My Ad Center and read how Google uses ad data in its partner-sites notice.

• Advertising beyond Google AdSense. No Meta Pixel, no LinkedIn Insight tag, no other third-party ad networks. AdSense is the only advertising we run, and only after you accept optional cookies.
• Selling or renting cookie data. We never sell or rent the data in our cookies to anyone.
• Session-replay tools like Hotjar, Microsoft Clarity, or FullStory.
• Cookie-based first-party analytics.Our own optional analytics (see "What we use them for" above) are cookieless.

You can control cookies through your browser:

• Chrome / Edge: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
• Firefox:Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
• Safari: Settings → Privacy → Manage Website Data
• Mobile:Same paths in your phone's browser settings

Blocking the "strictly necessary" category will sign you out and prevent sign-in. We have no way to run an authenticated session without those.

Our own cookies don't track you. The one exception is Google AdSense, which loads only if you accept optional cookies. If you do not accept them, or you send a Global Privacy Control or Do-Not-Track signal, we do not load AdSense and set no advertising cookies.

If we add or remove a cookie category, this page changes and the "Last updated" date moves with it. For material changes, we follow the same notice rules as our Privacy Policy.

Questions about cookies? Email hello@forensicspot.com.