Cookies and data

This page covers the website usegiver.com. For the Giver app, and for more on your rights, see our privacy policy.

Cookies and similar storage

Analytics stays off until you accept it. If you decline, or don’t answer, Google Analytics doesn’t load at all.

Name	Set by	Type	What it does	Lasts
giver-consent	Giver	Necessary	Remembers your cookie choice. It sits in your browser’s local storage and is never sent to us.	12 months, then we ask again
_ga	Google Analytics	Analytics, only if you accept	A random ID that lets Google Analytics recognise a returning browser.	Up to 2 years
_ga_PMJ7HB4D31, _ga_KTN800FM65	Google Analytics	Analytics, only if you accept	Keeps track of your current visit.	Up to 2 years

We don’t use advertising cookies, social media pixels or browser fingerprinting. The links to our social profiles are plain links. If Cloudflare needs to check that a visitor isn’t a bot, it may set a short-lived security cookie (__cf_bm or cf_clearance), which the site needs to stay protected.

What data this website collects

Data	What’s included	Why	When
Google Analytics	Pages viewed, how you move between them, referring site, approximate location (from your IP address), device and browser type, and the random ID above.	To learn which pages and guides are useful.	Only if you accept. Kept for up to 14 months.
Cloudflare Web Analytics	Pages viewed, referring site, country, device and browser type, and page speed, counted in aggregate.	To count visits without cookies, including from people who decline.	Every visit. It stores nothing on your device and doesn’t identify you.
Waitlist	Your email, which list you joined, iPhone or Android, the page you signed up on, and a one-way hash of your IP address.	To email you an invite or the launch news, and to limit repeated signups.	Only if you sign up. Deleted after launch.
Server logs	IP address, browser and the page requested, kept briefly by Cloudflare.	To deliver the site and protect it from attacks.	Every visit.
Product images	Your IP address, browser and our site’s address are visible to the service hosting an image. Guides load product photos from Shopify and BigCommerce, and book covers from Open Library and the Internet Archive.	To show you the product.	On guide pages with those photos.

We don’t sell your data, and we don’t send Google your name or email. Google signals and ad personalisation are turned off, so analytics data isn’t used for ads or to follow you across sites. Google processes it for us under its data processing terms, and it may be handled in the United States.

Shop links

When you open a shop link, you leave this website. The shop, and the affiliate network that tracks the referral, may set their own cookies under their own privacy policies so that we can earn a commission. We don’t control those cookies and don’t receive details of what you buy. Our affiliate disclosure explains more.

Changing your mind

Open Cookie settings and turn analytics off. We stop Google Analytics and delete its cookies from this website straight away. You can also clear cookies and site data in your browser, in which case we’ll ask you again.

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat that as declining analytics and don’t show the banner.

Questions? Email hello@usegiver.com.