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Cookie Policy
Social Evergreen uses a small number of first-party cookies and no advertising trackers. This page lists every category, what it does and how to control it, and sits alongside our obligations under the Australian Privacy Act.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a website asks your browser to store. They let a site recognise a
returning request — for example, to keep you signed in between pages. Related technologies such as
localStorage work similarly, and where we use them they are covered by this policy too.
Cookies set by socialevergreen.com are first-party cookies. We do not permit third-party advertising or tracking cookies on the Service.
2. Essential cookies
These are required for the Service to function. Without them you cannot sign in or submit a form safely, so they cannot be switched off from within the site.
- se_session — the session identifier that keeps you signed in. HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax, Secure in production. Expires when you close your browser or after the idle timeout.
- CSRF token — a per-form token held in your session that proves a submitted form genuinely came from a page we served. Lifetime matches the session.
- g_csrf_token — set only if you use Google Sign-In, by Google Identity Services, to protect the sign-in exchange. Short-lived.
3. Authentication cookies
The session cookie described above is the only authentication cookie we set. It contains a random identifier and no personal information. The identifier is regenerated periodically and on sign-in, and it is invalidated when you sign out or change your password. We do not use persistent "remember me" tokens.
4. Preference storage
We store a handful of play preferences in your browser's local storage: the 18+ age-gate choice, quiet mode, an optional daily play limit and — for guests — a temporary virtual-coin balance. Signed-in players also have quiet mode and play limits saved against the account. None of this is an advertising identifier, and none of it has monetary value.
Reduced motion is honoured from your operating-system setting; we do not set a separate cookie for it. Clearing site data in your browser removes local preferences.
5. Analytics cookies
Where analytics are enabled, they are configured for aggregate measurement only: page views, broad device categories and error rates. They are not used to build advertising profiles, and any IP address handled for analytics is truncated or anonymised where the provider supports it. If we introduce an analytics tool that requires consent under your local law, we will ask for that consent before it is set, and this page will name the tool.
6. Security cookies
Some cookies exist purely to protect the Service — for instance, to associate a request with the rate-limiting counters that slow down automated sign-in attempts. These carry no personal profile information and exist only to keep accounts safe.
7. Third-party services
The only third party that may set a cookie on the Service is Google, and only if you choose to use Google Sign-In. In that case Google's own cookie and privacy policies apply to the cookies it sets. We do not embed advertising networks, social media widgets, session recorders or heatmap tools.
8. Managing cookies
You can view, block and delete cookies from your browser's settings. Common paths are:
- Chrome — Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies / Site data.
- Firefox — Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data.
- Safari — Settings → Privacy → Manage Website Data.
- Edge — Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies.
Blocking essential cookies will prevent you from signing in and from submitting forms, because the Service cannot verify the request. Everything else on the site remains readable.
9. Changes to this policy
If the cookies we use change, this page is updated first and the "last updated" date at the top changes with it. Where a new cookie requires consent, we will ask before setting it.
10. Contact
Questions about cookies can be sent to support@socialevergreen.com. See also our Privacy Policy, which explains how the information behind these cookies is handled under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).