Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit a website. They help websites remember information about your visit, such as your language preferences and settings. Cookies themselves do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several purposes:

• Authentication: To keep you logged in to your Hook account
• Preferences: To remember your language, display, and other preferences
• Analytics: To understand how you use Hook and improve our services
• Security: To detect and prevent fraud and abuse
• Functionality: To enable features like saved filters and recommendations

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for our website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility.

Performance Cookies: These cookies help us understand how you use our website and services. They collect information about the pages you visit and any errors you encounter.

Functional Cookies: These cookies allow us to remember your choices and provide enhanced functionality based on your preferences.

4. Third-Party Cookies

We may allow third-party service providers to place cookies on your device for analytics and advertising purposes. These include:

• Google Analytics for website analytics
• Stripe for payment processing
• Clerk for authentication services

5. Your Cookie Choices

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can usually set your browser to:

• Accept or reject cookies from websites
• Delete cookies that have been set
• Warn you when a cookie is about to be set

Please note that if you disable cookies, some features of Hook may not work properly.

6. Do Not Track

Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" feature. Currently, there is no industry standard for recognizing Do Not Track signals, and Hook does not respond to Do Not Track browser signals. However, you can use other tools to control the collection of information.

7. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on our website.

8. Contact Us

If you have questions about our Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us at privacy@hook.honcho99.xyz.