Cookie Policy
Last Updated: December 8, 2025
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They help websites remember your preferences, improve your experience, and provide analytics to site owners.
This Cookie Policy explains how Views And Bases uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website viewsandbases.com.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
2.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, authentication, and accessibility features.
Examples:
- Authentication cookies: Keep you logged in to your account
- Security cookies: Protect against fraudulent activity
- Cookie consent preference: Remember your cookie preferences
Legal Basis: These cookies are necessary for the site to work and cannot be disabled.
2.2 Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. We use this data to improve our content and user experience.
What we use:
- Umami Analytics: Privacy-focused analytics that tracks page views, referrers, and basic usage patterns without collecting personal data. Data is anonymized and self-hosted.
- PostHog: Product analytics that helps us understand user behavior and improve our tools. Includes session recordings and feature usage tracking.
Legal Basis: Your consent (you can opt-out via our cookie banner)
2.3 Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver relevant advertisements and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
What we use:
- Google AdSense: Displays relevant advertisements on our website. Google may use cookies to show ads based on your prior visits to our site or other websites. These cookies also help us earn revenue to support our free content.
Legal Basis: Your consent (you can opt-out via our cookie banner)
You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings or aboutads.info.
2.4 Functional Cookies
These cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalization, such as remembering your preferences and settings.
Examples:
- Remembering your language preference
- Saving your theme choice (light/dark mode)
- Storing form data to improve your experience
Legal Basis: Your consent (you can disable these in our cookie banner)
3. Detailed Cookie List
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookie_consent | Stores your cookie preferences | Necessary | 1 year |
| sb-* | Supabase authentication tokens | Necessary | Session/7 days |
| umami.cache | Umami analytics session tracking | Analytics | 24 hours |
| ph_* | PostHog analytics and feature flags | Analytics | 1 year |
| _gid, _ga, _gat | Google Analytics (via AdSense) | Analytics | 24 hours - 2 years |
| IDE, DSID | Google advertising cookies | Advertising | 1-2 years |
| NID | Google ad personalization | Advertising | 6 months |
4. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on our site are set by third-party services we use. These include:
- Google (AdSense): Sets cookies for ad delivery and personalization. See Google's Cookie Policy.
- PostHog: Analytics and feature management platform. See PostHog's Privacy Policy.
- Supabase: Authentication and database services. See Supabase's Privacy Policy.
We do not control these third-party cookies. Please review their respective privacy policies for more information.
5. How to Manage Cookies
5.1 Cookie Consent Banner
When you first visit our site, you'll see a cookie consent banner where you can choose to:
- Accept all cookies
- Reject non-essential cookies
- Customize your preferences for different cookie categories
You can change your preferences at any time by clicking the "Cookie Settings" link in our footer or .
5.2 Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can:
- Block all cookies
- Block third-party cookies only
- Delete cookies after each browsing session
- View and delete individual cookies
Here's how to manage cookies in popular browsers:
Note: Blocking or deleting cookies may affect your user experience and prevent certain features from working properly.
6. Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers have a "Do Not Track" (DNT) feature that signals to websites that you don't want your online activity tracked. Currently, there is no universal standard for how websites should respond to DNT signals. We honor cookie consent preferences set through our cookie banner.
7. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, operational, or regulatory reasons. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this page indicates when the policy was last revised.
8. Contact Us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
Email: [email protected]
Contact Page: viewsandbases.com/contact
Privacy Policy: viewsandbases.com/privacy