1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They help websites remember your preferences and improve your browsing experience.

2. How We Use Cookies

AllocBoard uses a minimal number of cookies, focused primarily on essential functionality. We do not use marketing or advertising cookies.

3. Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable core features like secure login and account access. Without these cookies, the Service cannot function correctly.

Which site sets what matters here. This marketing site sets no cookies at all. The cookies below are set when you use the application at app.allocboard.com or sign in at accounts.allocboard.com.

Clerk may set additional session cookies as required for authentication. Cookie names and durations may change as providers update their services.

Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Duration
__client_uat	Clerk	Client session timestamp	1 year
__session	Clerk	Maintains your login session	Session
__stripe_mid	Stripe	Fraud prevention for payment processing	1 year
__stripe_sid	Stripe	Payment session management	30 minutes
__cf_bm	Cloudflare	Bot and abuse prevention on the hosts behind our CDN	30 minutes

4. Browser Storage

The application also keeps a few small items in your browser's local storage and session storage. None is shared with anyone, and none is used for tracking. This marketing site stores nothing.

Item	Storage	Purpose	Duration
colorMode	Local	Remembers whether the application is shown in light or dark mode	Until cleared
allocboard.tenant-status.*	Local	Remembers your organisation's plan status, so a read-only workspace shows as read-only straight away	Until cleared
allocboard.handover.visited.*	Local	Remembers which getting-started steps you have already opened	Until cleared
estimate-secret:*	Session	Holds the code from a personal expense estimate link while the page is open	Until the tab is closed
ab:chunk-reloaded	Session	Stops the application reloading more than once after an update	Until the tab is closed

5. What We Don't Use

We want to be transparent about what we do not do:

No marketing cookies. We do not track you for advertising purposes
No third-party tracking. We do not use Google Analytics or similar tracking services
No social media cookies. We do not embed social media tracking pixels

6. Future Analytics

If we add analytics in future, we will use a privacy-focused, cookieless solution and update this policy before implementation. We will never use analytics that involve selling or sharing your data with advertisers.

7. Managing Cookies

You can control and manage cookies in your browser settings. Please note that disabling essential cookies may affect the functionality of our Service.

Here's how to manage cookies in popular browsers:

Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies
Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies
Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Cookies
Edge: Settings → Privacy, search, and services → Cookies

8. Your Consent

Cookies in the UK are governed by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR), not by the UK GDPR alone. Regulation 6 requires your consent before anything is stored on or read from your device, except where doing so is strictly necessary to provide a service you have asked for.

Every cookie listed above falls within that exemption: without them you cannot sign in, hold a session, or pay. The browser storage items keep the application working as you use it, or remember the display setting you are using. So we do not ask for consent, and we store nothing that would require it. Where personal data sits inside one of these cookies, we handle it as described in our Privacy Policy at /privacy.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us:

Email: hello@allocboard.com