Plain-Language Summary
Some browser technologies are necessary for account security, checkout, and core site functions. Others help remember settings or measure how marketing performs. The exact technologies available can vary by device, browser, account state, and enabled service.
What Cookies and Similar Technologies Are
Cookies are small text records that a website or service provider stores through your browser. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage, pixels, and device or browser identifiers.
These technologies can recognize a browser, maintain a session, remember information, measure an event, or support security. They do not all operate in the same way and may have different expiration periods.
How We Use Browser Technologies
Essential and Security
Authentication and security technologies help maintain account sessions, protect restricted areas, and prevent unauthorized access. Blocking them may stop sign-in or account features from working.
Preferences and Functionality
Browser storage may remember interface preferences, language-related navigation, and unfinished app-submission details so you do not need to re-enter them on the same device.
Referral Attribution
When you visit with a referral code, 12Testers may store that code for up to 30 days so an eligible referral can be attributed correctly.
Payments
Stripe may use cookies or similar identifiers to provide secure checkout, prevent fraud, and process payments. Stripe handles payment-card details rather than storing them in 12Testers cookies.
Analytics and Advertising
When enabled, Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Meta Pixel may use identifiers to measure visits, conversions, campaign performance, and advertising attribution.
Service Providers
Depending on the features you use and which services are enabled, the following providers may place or read cookies and similar identifiers:
- Clerk: account authentication, session management, and security.
- Stripe: secure checkout, payment processing, and fraud prevention.
- Google Analytics and Google Ads: site measurement, conversion tracking, and advertising performance.
- Meta Pixel: campaign measurement and advertising attribution.
These providers control their own technologies and process information under their respective privacy and cookie policies. Their cookie names, purposes, and retention periods may change independently of 12Testers.
Retention
Retention depends on the technology and purpose. Session technologies may expire when you sign out or close the browser. Persistent technologies remain until their configured expiration, until the relevant purpose ends, or until you delete them.
The ref_code referral cookie is configured for up to 30 days. Third-party providers determine the retention of their own cookies and identifiers.
Your Browser Choices
Most browsers let you view, delete, or block cookies and clear local storage. You can also use settings offered by Google, Meta, and other providers to manage advertising personalization or measurement where available.
Blocking essential authentication or security technologies may prevent sign-in, checkout, account access, referral attribution, or other features from working correctly. Browser controls generally apply to the browser and device where you set them.
Information We Do Not Intentionally Store in Our Cookies
12Testers does not intentionally place raw account passwords, service-account private keys, or complete payment-card numbers in its own cookies. Authentication credentials and payment data are handled through the relevant secure service workflows.
Policy Changes and Questions
We may update this policy when browser technologies, service providers, legal requirements, or site features change. The revision date at the top identifies the current published version.
Contact 12Testers support with questions about this policy or the technologies used on the site.
Questions About Browser Technologies?
Contact support for clarification about the cookies and similar technologies used by 12Testers.