Cookie Policy
Every cookie and storage key Cutaway uses, what it does, and how to change your choice.
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How Cutaway handles this
Cutaway loads nothing optional until you opt in. Analytics and browser-side error monitoring stay off by default, and the scripts that provide them are not fetched, initialised or given a chance to set anything until you accept them.
You are asked once, on your first visit, and can accept everything, reject everything optional, or choose category by category. Rejecting optional cookies does not degrade the product.
Categories
- Strictly necessary
- Needed for the site to work: keeping you signed in, protecting the session, and remembering your cookie choice. These cannot be switched off, and no consent is required for them.
- Preferences
- Remember interface choices, such as whether the workspace sidebar is expanded. Optional.
- Analytics
- Measure how the site and product are used, via Google Analytics. Optional, and off unless you opt in.
- Monitoring
- Report browser-side errors and performance problems to Sentry so they can be fixed. Optional, and off unless you opt in.
Cutaway does not use advertising or marketing cookies, does not run ad-tech pixels, and does not share information for cross-context behavioural advertising. There is no marketing category because there is nothing in it.
What Cutaway actually stores
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Duration | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cutaway_consent | Cutaway | Records your cookie choices and the policy version they were given against | 12 months | Strictly necessary |
| __session | Clerk | Keeps you signed in | Session | Strictly necessary |
| __client_uat | Clerk | Tracks authentication state so the app knows whether to attempt a session refresh | Session | Strictly necessary |
| sidebar_state | Cutaway | Remembers whether the workspace sidebar is expanded | 7 days | Preferences |
| cutaway_last_auth_method | Cutaway | Local storage, not a cookie. Remembers which sign-in method you last used so it can be highlighted | Until cleared | Strictly necessary |
| _ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics | Distinguishes visitors and persists analytics session state | 2 years | Analytics — only if you opt in |
Third parties
Clerk sets the authentication cookies as part of signing you in. Google sets the analytics cookies, and only after you opt in — before that, Cutaway signals denied consent to Google's tag and the analytics script is never loaded.
The Privacy Policy lists every service that receives data and what each one gets.
Managing your choices
Use Cookie settings in the footer to review or change your categories at any time. You can also clear or block cookies in your browser, though blocking strictly necessary cookies will stop you from signing in.
Questions about this policy: privacy@usecutaway.com.