Cookie policy
Last updated: 11 September 2026
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small file a website stores in your browser when you visit. It exists to remember something between one page and the next: that you are signed in, which language you want to read in, or that you have been here before.
They do not all do the same thing. Some are essential for the service to work and cannot be turned off without breaking it. Others measure the audience of the site or tell us which adverts bring visits; those are set when you arrive, and further down we explain how to block or delete them if you do not want them.
Cookies we use
This is the complete list. The first column is the name as your browser will show it, and the second says where it is set: this marketing site, or the application once you sign in to your account.
| Name | Where | What it does | Lifetime | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Marketing site | Google Analytics: tells one visit from another so we can count how many people arrive. | Two years | Analytics |
| _ga_ followed by the property identifier | Marketing site | Google Analytics: keeps the measurement session state as you browse. Your browser shows it with the identifier already filled in, without the "G-" prefix. | Two years | Analytics |
| ph_ followed by the project key and _posthog | Marketing site and application | PostHog: tells one visit from another and, if you later create an account, lets us recognise it as the same person. It is first-party, on the gofeedapp.com domain, and has a twin of the same name in browser local storage. In the application it is tied to your account. | One year | Analytics |
| _gcl_au | Marketing site | Google Ads: stores anonymously which advert brought you here, so we can tell which campaigns work. | Ninety days | Advertising |
| _gac_ followed by the campaign identifier | Marketing site | Google Ads: ties a visit to the particular campaign you arrived from. | Ninety days | Advertising |
| gf_attribution | Marketing site | Remembers which advert or campaign you arrived from, so a later sign-up can be attributed to it. It is not a cookie: it is browser local storage. | Until you clear it | Advertising |
| gf_attr | Application | Carries that same fact into the application while you register, because signing in with Google loses it on the way. It clears itself after half an hour. | Thirty minutes | Advertising |
| Session cookie | Application | Keeps you signed in while you are using it. | The session | Necessary |
| gf_locale | Application | Remembers the language you want to read the application in. | One year | Necessary |
| Last workspace | Application | Remembers the last workspace you opened, so you land back in it. | One year | Necessary |
Technical and session cookies
The three marked necessary in the table genuinely are: without them you could not stay signed in and the service would not remember your basic preferences. They are indispensable to providing the service you asked for, which is why the law allows them to be set without asking you.
They are first-party, meaning this service sets them rather than a third party, and they are not used to watch your behaviour or for advertising.
The marketing site you are reading sets no necessary cookies at all. Language needs none here because it is part of the address itself, in "/es" or "/en". The three necessary cookies in the table belong to the application and only appear once you sign in.
Third-party cookies
We use Google Analytics to measure the audience of the marketing site: how many people arrive, where from, and which pages they read. It tells us what we are explaining badly, not who you are.
We also use PostHog, for the same purpose. On the marketing site it measures the audience; in the application, once you sign in, it measures which features are used. What is collected and on what legal basis is explained in our privacy policy, at /en/legal/privacy.
We also use Google Ads. When you arrive from one of our adverts we store an identifier for that click, so we can tell which campaigns bring people who then register. It exists so we do not spend the budget on adverts that do not work, and the identifier refers to the advert rather than to you: it carries no name, no email address and nothing that identifies you.
Both services are loaded through Google Tag Manager, which is only the mechanism that places them and stores nothing of its own. What each one stores is in the table above.
The provider of the Google services is Google Ireland Limited, and the data may be processed by Google LLC in the United States under the EU to US Data Privacy Framework. The provider of PostHog is PostHog Inc., and the data is hosted in its European cloud, in Frankfurt.
One point deserves to be plain: these cookies are set when you arrive on the site, not after you press anything. None of them is needed for the site to work, so you can block or delete them without losing anything; the next section explains how, and every route there works without having to write to us.
We do not sell this data and we do not pass it to anyone beyond the providers named here. We use no social network pixels today; the day we do, they will appear in the table above before they are set.
Retention period
Each cookie lifetime is in the table above. Session cookies disappear when you close the browser; the rest expire on their own after the stated period, and you can delete them sooner whenever you want.
How to block or delete cookies
The analytics and advertising cookies in the table are set when you visit the site. None of them is needed for it to work, and blocking them costs you no functionality: you can still read every page, get in touch and register exactly the same.
From your browser. All of them let you see a site’s cookies, delete them and block third-party ones, and also clear them automatically on close. It is under "Settings → Privacy and security" in Chrome, "Settings → Privacy & Security" in Firefox, "Preferences → Privacy" in Safari and "Settings → Cookies and site permissions" in Edge. If you browse in a private or incognito window, they clear themselves when you close it.
For Google Analytics alone. Google publishes an opt-out add-on that stops Analytics measuring your browsing on any site, not only this one. It is at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For Google advertising alone. At https://myadcenter.google.com you can turn off ad personalisation on your Google account, and at https://www.youronlinechoices.com you can manage advertising preferences across much of the industry at once.
By writing to us. If you would rather we stopped processing your data for measurement or advertising, you can object at any time and free of charge by writing to support@gofeedapp.com, without having to explain why. We will act on it and reply to you.
Note that if you block all cookies, including the necessary ones, the application may stop working properly: without the session cookie you could not stay signed in.
Changes to this policy
We will update this page when the cookies we use or the providers that set them change. The date of the last update is shown at the top.
Contact
If you have any question about cookies or about what we store, write to us at support@gofeedapp.com. The detail of how we handle your data is in our privacy policy, at /en/legal/privacy.