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Cookie policy
Every cookie beseen sets, what it is for and how long it lasts. None of them tracks you or is used for ads.
The cookies we use
We use only the cookies below. None of them tracks you, none is used for ads, and none is shared with anyone.
- Session and security cookies (beseen-session, XSRF-TOKEN): keep you logged in and protect forms from forgery. Needed for the site to work; deleted when your session ends.
- Remember me (remember_web_…): only if you tick “Remember me” when you log in, so you stay logged in on that device. Deleted when you log out.
- Sound settings (profile_volume, profile_sound): remember how loud you like pages’ sound, and the pages where you turned the sound off. They stay in your browser for a year, and our server never reads them.
- Invite link (beseen_ref): only if you open someone’s invite link (beseen.bio/r/…). It holds that person’s referral code for 30 days so the sign-up form can fill it in, and our server reads it when you sign up.
- Sign-up browser check (beseen_device): a random identifier the sign-up page sets, for a year, only so we can turn down invites between accounts made in one browser. Our server reads it when you sign up and keeps only a scrambled code made from it.
- Announcement (beseen_announcement): remembers that you have seen our latest announcement in your notification bell, so it no longer shows as new. It holds only which announcement it was, and lasts a year.
- Your browser may also remember display choices (light or dark mode, a hidden sidebar, whether you stopped a page’s motion) in its own storage. These never leave your device.
We embed no players, so Spotify, YouTube, Twitch and SoundCloud set no cookies on this site; if you open one of them from a page, that service’s own cookies are its own.
Why there is no cookie banner
The law does not ask for a banner when cookies are needed for the site to work, or only remember a choice you made. Every cookie above is one of those, so we do not show one. Our page statistics set no cookie at all: see If you visit a page in the privacy policy.
Removing cookies in your browser
You can delete this site’s cookies at any time in your browser’s settings. You will be logged out, and the sound choices go back to how they started.
More about your data
The privacy policy explains everything else: what we keep, why, for how long, who else handles it, and your rights.