Cookies and storage
Our website counts visits only if you agree. The app’s one cookie keeps you signed in, and the few things Kwessa keeps in your browser remember your choices.
Last updated 10 November 2026
The short version#
Our website asks before it sets any cookie: only if you accept on its banner does it count your visit with our analytics provider and record how you use its pages (never what you type), keeping an id in a cookie, and lets Google Ads set a cookie that tells it when a visit from one of our ads ends in a sign-up. Decline and it sets none. The Kwessa app sets one cookie, only once you sign in, to keep you signed in, and records how it is used without any cookie (see our privacy policy). We use no social media trackers, and Google’s cookie is never used to show you ads.
Kwessa also keeps a few small choices in your browser’s local storage. They stay on your device, are never used to follow you around the web, and are listed below.
On this website#
- kwessa-theme (local storage): your choice of light or dark appearance, only if you pick one instead of following your device. Kept until you change it or clear your browser’s data.
- kwessa.analyticsConsent (local storage): your answer on the cookie banner, so we don’t ask again. Kept until you change it with “Cookie settings” at the foot of each page, or clear your browser’s data.
- ph_… (a cookie, and the same in local storage), only if you accept analytics: our analytics provider’s random id for your browser, so a later visit counts as the same visitor, and the current visit’s details. It lasts a year; it is deleted if you later decline in “Cookie settings”.
- _gcl_au (a cookie), only if you accept analytics: set by Google Ads, so that if you came from one of our ads and then sign up, Google can count that ad as having brought a sign-up. Google gets no name, email or anything you type, and it is not used to personalise ads. It lasts 90 days; it is deleted if you later decline in “Cookie settings”.
When you send a form on this site, what you type goes to us to answer you, or, for the newsletter, to send you the link that confirms your subscription (see our privacy policy); nothing about it is kept in your browser.
In the Kwessa app#
Cookies#
- kwessa_session: keeps you signed in. It lets the app get a short-lived pass to your club’s data without asking for your password each time. Scripts on the page cannot read it, it is sent only to our sign-in service and never to another site, and it is replaced each time it is used. It is removed when you sign out and stops working after 14 days without use.
- kwessa_handoff: set for one minute when you switch to another of your clubs, so the new club’s page can sign you in. Then it is gone.
Local storage#
- kwessa-theme: your light or dark choice, as on the website.
- kwessa.sidebarCollapsed: whether you folded the menu away.
- kwessa.<list>.columns: which columns you chose to show on a list, such as Members.
- kwessa.dismissedAnnouncements: announcements you have closed, so they stay closed.
Your club’s data itself is not kept in your browser: it is loaded from our servers while you use the app.
Clearing it#
You can clear these items at any time from your browser’s settings (usually under “site data” or “cookies and site data”). You will need to sign in again, and your theme and column choices go back to their defaults.
To stop the website counting your visits, choose “Cookie settings” at the foot of any page and decline: its cookie and Google’s are removed and nothing more is sent. If we ever add another cookie or a service that tracks visits, we will update this page first and, where the law requires it, ask for your consent before using it.