Cookie Policy
For the writeboard.app website, operated by Kree8 Hive Limited.
This page lists every cookie this website can place on your device, what each one is for, and how to change or withdraw your choice. It is the companion to §11 of the Privacy Policy, which covers identifiers across the whole platform.
1. The short version
- Nothing optional is loaded until you say yes. Until you choose, no Google script is fetched and no analytics or advertising cookie exists on your device. This is not a banner that asks while tracking you anyway — the tag is not downloaded at all.
- One cookie is set without asking. It records the choice you make, so we do not have to ask again on every page. That is all it holds.
- Refusing is one click, in the same place as accepting. Both buttons look the same and sit side by side on purpose.
- You can change your mind at any time using Cookie settings at the foot of any page. Withdrawing deletes the cookies it covers.
2. What a cookie is, and what we mean by categories
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep, so that something can be remembered between pages or between visits. Similar techniques store data on your device under other names, and where this page says “cookie” it means any of them.
We group them into three categories, and the banner asks about the second and third:
| Necessary | Needed for the site to work and to remember your cookie choice. No tracking, no third party. These are not optional, which is why we do not pretend to ask. |
|---|---|
| Analytics | Google Analytics, so we can see which pages schools actually read, how they found us, and where visitors give up. We use it to decide what to write and fix, not to identify you. |
| Advertising | Lets Google measure which adverts brought you to this site, and show WriteBoard adverts to you elsewhere. |
3. The cookies this site uses
3.1 Necessary — set without asking
| Name | Set by | What it holds | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
wb_consent |
WriteBoard (this site) | Your answer to the banner: whether analytics and advertising are allowed, the date you answered, and a version number so we can tell when the question itself has changed. No identifier, nothing about you. | 6 months |
It expires after six months rather than lasting indefinitely, because a choice made once should not bind you forever. When it lapses we ask again.
3.2 Analytics — only if you accept
| Name | Set by | What it is for | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga |
Tells one browser apart from another, so a returning visit is not counted as a new one | 2 years | |
_ga_CW3VTRVNNS |
Holds the session state for our specific Google Analytics property | 2 years |
Google acts as our processor for this measurement, and the data is processed in the United States — see §16 of the Privacy Policy. The Google tag may set further cookies of its own; this table is maintained from what the site is actually observed to set, and is corrected whenever that changes.
3.3 Advertising — only if you accept
No advertising cookies are set on this site today. We have no advertising or remarketing tag live. The category exists, and the banner asks about it, so that your choice is already recorded and respected before any such tag is added rather than after. If you accept Advertising, Google is permitted to use advertising storage; if and when a tag goes live, the cookies it sets (_gcl_au is the usual first one) will be listed here before it ships.
How a new tag reaches this page
A measurement or advertising tag is only added to this site after its category exists in the banner and its cookies are listed in the tables above. A cookie this page does not name is a cookie we should not be setting.
4. Changing or withdrawing your choice
Select Cookie settings at the foot of any page. The panel opens showing what is currently allowed, and you can turn either category on or off.
Withdrawing actually removes them. When you turn a category off, we delete the cookies in it and reload the page, so nothing from it is left running or stored. Withdrawing is the same number of clicks as consenting.
You can also clear or block cookies in your browser's own settings, which works regardless of anything on this page. Blocking the necessary cookie means we cannot remember your answer, so the banner will ask again on each visit.
If you take no action, the banner stays and nothing optional is loaded. There is no deadline and no loss of function: every part of this site, including the registration form, works without answering it.
5. Other requests that are not cookies
Cookies are not the only way a website can tell a third party you were here. These are the others, listed because a cookie policy that mentions only cookies is an incomplete answer:
- Google Fonts. The typeface on this site is served by Google. It sets no cookie, but loading it tells Google your IP address and which browser you use. This happens on every page, before and regardless of any choice, because it is how the page is drawn.
- Our web server's logs. Our hosting provider records requests, including IP addresses, for security and reliability. This is ordinary server logging, not tracking, and it is covered by §3 and §9 of the Privacy Policy.
- The registration form. If you fill in the “I’m interested” form, what you type is sent to us. That is you choosing to tell us something, not a cookie, and it is covered by §3.
6. What we do not do
- We set no cookie from this site that has anything to do with a child. Nothing here reads or touches member records, messages or anything your school holds. Those live in the app and the school platform, which carry no advertising of any kind.
- We do not use a cookie wall. Refusing costs you nothing on this site.
- We treat a closed banner as no answer, not as consent. There is no dismiss button that counts as yes, which is why the only ways out of the banner are Accept all, Reject all, and saving your own selection.
- We do not load a tag and then claim it is switched off. Refused means not downloaded.
7. Changes to this page
If we add a category or change what one means, we raise the version recorded in wb_consent. Your old answer is then treated as no answer and the banner asks again, rather than a new category inheriting a permission you never gave for it.
Questions about any of this: privacy@writeboard.app.