Cookie policy

This covers SaySo: this website, the SaySo app at app.getsayso.io, and the stores sellers run on SaySo. It lists what each one stores in your browser, and why.

The short version

• This website sets cookies only for Google Analytics, which counts visits, and only if you say yes in the notice that asks.
• The SaySo app uses the cookies it needs to work, such as the ones that keep you signed in. Its sign-in and billing pages also use Google Analytics, only if you say yes.
• Stores on SaySo use the cookies needed to buy and download. Anything more, like the seller’s own analytics, is set only after you say yes in that store’s notice. A store that sets nothing more doesn’t ask. Videos and booking calendars a seller adds are the exception, explained below: they load from their own service when you press play or open the booking page.

There’s no ad tracking anywhere in SaySo itself.

What a cookie is

A cookie is a small piece of text a website saves in your browser, so it can recognize you next time. Websites can also keep things in your browser’s storage in similar ways. Your answer to a cookie notice is kept in your browser’s storage, not in a cookie, so saying no never needs a cookie of its own.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to see which pages people read and which sites sent them. Nothing from Google loads until you say yes. Then it sets two cookies, named _ga and one starting _ga_, that hold a random ID so it can tell one visit from the next. They last up to two years and don’t hold your name or email address. We turned off Google’s advertising features, so none of this is used to show you ads.

To opt out of Google Analytics on every site, Google offers a browser add-on, or you can block or clear cookies as below. To change your answer here, use this button and the notice asks again. Cookies Google already set stay until you clear them.

Change my cookie choice

SaySo’s sign-in and billing pages, on app.getsayso.io, use Google Analytics the same way and ask the same question first, so we can see how many visitors go on to start a trial. They keep their own answer, so they ask once too. To be asked again there, clear app.getsayso.io’s site data in your browser.

The video on the home page

The video is played by Bunny.net, from Bunny’s own servers. When we checked, the player stored nothing in the browser as the page loaded. It may store something once you press play, for example to remember the volume. That’s Bunny’s player, not us, and we don’t receive or use any of it.

The SaySo app

These are needed for the app to work, so they don’t ask first. None of them is used for advertising.

• Signing in (names starting sb-): keep you signed in. They’re cleared when you sign out.
• Finishing sign-in (sayso_next and sayso_google): remember where to take you after an emailed sign-in link or Google, for an hour at most.
• Invite links (sayso_invite): keep an invite code you opened, for up to a week, until you sign up.
• Connecting services (sayso_connect_state, sayso_email_oauth and sayso_email_oauth_choice): check that a Stripe or email service connection you started is the one that comes back, for an hour at most.

The app also remembers a few choices in your browser’s storage, such as whether the sidebar is open and whether you finished the setup checklist. They stay on your device.

Stores on SaySo

When you check out or download from a store on SaySo, these are set because buying and downloading need them:

• Checkout (__Host-sayso_checkout_browser): a random code that limits how often one browser can start a checkout, so stores are protected from abuse. It lasts a day.
• Your purchase (names starting sayso_purchase_ or sayso_free_): let you open what you bought or signed up for, for a short time after the link you followed.

A store asks you first, in its own cookie notice, before setting anything else. It asks only if the seller turned on one of these:

• The seller’s own Google Analytics or Meta Pixel, which set their own cookies to count visits and sales. That’s the seller’s choice and the seller’s data, and nothing loads unless you say yes.
• Remembering returning buyers (__Host-sayso_returning): a random code, so the store knows on your next visit what you already own and doesn’t offer it again. It lasts a year.

Your answer is kept for that store alone, because saying yes to one seller isn’t saying yes to another. Say no and the store works the same. SaySo counts store visits without cookies, using a code that changes every day and can’t be turned back into who you are.

Videos and booking calendars. If a seller adds a video from YouTube, Vimeo, Loom, Wistia or Descript, it loads from that service when you press play, and that service may set its own cookies under its own privacy policy. YouTube videos use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode, which sets no cookies until you press play. If you buy a service with a booking calendar, the seller’s booking service loads on the booking page, with your email filled in so you don’t have to type it, and its own cookies and privacy policy apply.

Controlling cookies

Your browser’s settings let you see and clear what any site has stored, and block cookies if you like. This site works the same either way. If you block them in the SaySo app or at a store’s checkout, signing in, buying and downloading won’t work.

Changes

If we add something that stores information in your browser, we’ll update this page first, and the date at the top changes with it.

Questions

Email support@getsayso.io, or write to us at: