Cookie Policy

In short

We store what is needed to keep you signed in and to remember your settings. The only advertising cookies come from Google AdSense, on our public meme template pages and the pages of shared memes, and only for visitors who are not signed in. Where the law requires it, Google asks before it sets one.

What we store today

Sign-in tokens — required

When you sign in we store an access token and a refresh token. The access token proves who you are on each request; the refresh token gets you a new one when it expires, so you are not signed out every few minutes.

They expire on their own and are cleared when you sign out. Without them there is no way to stay signed in, which is why they are not optional.

Preferences — required

Small settings such as your chosen language, so the app behaves the same way next time you visit.

The first time you visit, we pick a starting language and remember it for a year. The country comes from a header our hosting provider adds to the request, so no other third party is involved. If that header is missing, we use your browser's language instead.

Advertising

Our public meme template pages — the list of templates and each template's own page — and the page of a shared meme (a post) may show ads from Google AdSense to visitors who are not signed in. If you are signed in you do not see them and Google's ad code is not loaded. No other page on FreeMock shows ads.

Google and its partners set cookies on your device to show ads, to count how many people saw one, to avoid showing you the same one over and over and, if you allow it, to show ads based on your interests (personalised ads).

Where the law requires consent — in the UK and the EU, for instance — Google shows its own message and asks before any advertising cookie is set. You can say no and keep using FreeMock normally. You can also manage personalised ads in Google's Ads Settings, and read how Google uses cookies in its policy for partner sites.

Analytics

Our wallet provider collects usage analytics about wallet interactions as part of its service. This tells them how their product is used; it is not used to build an advertising profile of you.

Controlling what is stored

Every browser can block or delete cookies and site data, usually under privacy settings. Some consequences worth knowing before you do:

• Blocking our sign-in cookies means you cannot stay signed in — that is precisely what they do.
• Clearing site data removes your local message keys, permanently.
• Blocking Google's advertising cookies changes nothing about how FreeMock works: you may still see ads, just not ones based on your browsing.

Changes

If we start using a new kind of cookie, this page will say so before we do, and the date at the top will change.