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DRAFT — Phase 3C implementation baseline, not final legal copy. Optional analytics and marketing stay blocked before opt-in consent.

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Use cookie settings to accept all, reject non-essential, or customize optional categories. Withdrawing consent stops future optional SelfGrowth-controlled processing and clears known optional SelfGrowth-controlled analytics/marketing storage where feasible.

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Strictly necessary cookies

Required for core functions such as authentication, security, passwordless login, session management, and remembering privacy choices. They are not optional because the service cannot work properly without them.

Name/categoryProviderPurposeDurationConsent
Supabase auth/session cookiesSupabase/SelfGrowthAuthenticate users and maintain secure sessionsSession/provider defaultStrictly necessary
selfgrowth-auth-nextSelfGrowthReturn path after passwordless loginUp to 15 minutesStrictly necessary
selfgrowth-auth-account-typeSelfGrowthComplete requested account-type sign-in flowUp to 15 minutesStrictly necessary
selfgrowth-auth-emailSelfGrowthComplete passwordless sign-inUp to 15 minutesStrictly necessary
selfgrowth-auth-otp-typeSelfGrowthComplete OTP sign-in flowUp to 15 minutesStrictly necessary
selfgrowth-auth-test-otp-recipient / selfgrowth-auth-test-otp-debug-codeSelfGrowthTest/QA-only OTP debugging; must not be enabled in productionUp to 15 minutes if enabled in approved test environmentStrictly necessary only for approved QA/test
selfgrowth-consent-v1SelfGrowthRemember cookie/privacy choices without storing user id, email, IP, or random visitor idAbout 180 days or until changed/policy updateStrictly necessary preference record

Preferences

Preferences help remember choices such as display settings, language, region, or dismissed notices. These should be used only for user-selected preferences and not behavioral tracking. Phase 5 nearby-event search does not remember a current location or manual place in cookies/localStorage by default; any future remembered coarse location preference needs a new review and explicit consent.

Analytics

Analytics help understand aggregate usage and improve SelfGrowth. Analytics may include page views, content views/clicks, ratings metrics, performance data, or similar usage signals. Analytics must not run before analytics consent unless a separate minimized aggregate/security design has been approved. Nearby-event search must not send precise latitude/longitude, manual location text, distance, or geocoder payloads to analytics.

Marketing/third-party

Marketing or third-party cookies may include retargeting pixels, ad-network cookies, social-media pixels, marketing automation trackers, or third-party embedded media that sets cookies. SelfGrowth should not use these unless explicitly approved, disclosed, and opt-in consent is collected where required.

Server web-touch requirement

SelfGrowth server middleware can be configured to send web-touch events. Phase 3C gates that non-essential web-touch path on the server-readable analytics consent cookie. Unknown consent defaults to analytics=false and marketing=false.

See the Privacy Policy for broader data-processing disclosures.

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