Cookie & Storage Policy

Effective date: May 4, 2026

1. What StellarTies Stores in Your Browser

StellarTies itself stores no cookies on the stellarties.com domain. We use browser localStorage for one item: a session token (stellarties_token) that authenticates your requests to our API after you sign in. The token is removed when you sign out.

2. Cookies Set by Service Providers We Redirect You To

Some flows redirect your browser to providers we use to operate the service. Those providers set their own cookies on their domains during those flows. We do not control these cookies and they are not readable from stellarties.com:

  • AWS Cognito: session cookies during the authentication flow. Required for sign-in to function. See AWS Privacy Notice.
  • Stripe Checkout & Customer Portal: cookies required for payment processing, fraud prevention, and the billing portal. See Stripe Privacy Policy.

These cookies are strictly necessary for sign-in and payment to work. Disabling them in your browser will break those flows.

3. First-Party Analytics Beacon

StellarTies aggregates page-engagement metrics (which pages are visited, how long visitors spend on them).

The beacon is first-party (no third-party host involved), cookie-less (it sets nothing in your browser), and works from a short-lived random visitor hash, not from a persistent identifier we can use to recognize you across sessions.

We do NOT use:

  • Third-party analytics services (Google Analytics, Mixpanel, etc.)
  • Third-party tracking pixels
  • Advertising networks or retargeting
  • Cross-site tracking of any kind

4. Other Third-Party Connections

We load fonts from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com). This involves a third-party connection to Google servers but is not tracking. Google may receive your IP address for this request. See Google Fonts Privacy.

5. Purpose of Stored Items

The session token in localStorage exists solely to maintain your authenticated session so you can access your saved partners, reports, and forecasts. It is a random string with no personally identifiable information embedded in it.

6. Duration

The session token persists in localStorage until you explicitly log out (which removes it) or clear your browser data. There is no automatic expiration on the client side; the server may invalidate sessions independently.

7. How to Clear

To remove StellarTies data from your browser:

  • Sign out using the Sign Out button in the dashboard header (clears the localStorage token).
  • Or open your browser's Developer Tools > Application > Local Storage > delete the stellarties_token entry.
  • Or clear all site data via your browser's Settings > Privacy > Clear browsing data (note: this also clears cookies set by Cognito and Stripe on their domains).

8. Why We Don't Show a Cookie Banner

stellarties.com itself sets no cookies. The cookies described in §2 are set by service providers on their own domains as a strictly necessary condition of sign-in and payment, and ePrivacy / GDPR rules do not require consent for strictly-necessary cookies. We disclose them here for full transparency rather than behind a banner.

9. Contact

Questions about this policy: privacy@stellarties.com