Cookies
Last updated: 10 November 2026
Callboard sets the cookies it needs to sign you in and to take a payment. With your consent, and only then, it also sets Google Analytics cookies to count visitors and see how people find the site. The notice on your first visit asks once, and rejecting is as easy as accepting.
1. What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a site stores in your browser so it can recognise the same browser on the next request. UK law (the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations) lets a site set cookies that are strictly necessary for something you asked for without consent. Any other cookie needs your consent first. Our analytics cookies are in the second group, so they are off until you accept them.
2. Cookies we always set
| Purpose | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Sign-in cookie | Keeps you signed in. Set when you sign in, removed when you sign out. | Until you sign out, or one year |
| Bot check | Set by our bot check while it confirms that a sign-up or sign-in is a person. Only on those two pages. | 30 minutes |
| Payment fraud check | Set by Stripe on the checkout page to spot fraud on card payments. Only when you pay. | One year and 30 minutes |
The sign-in cookie is set by our sign-in provider, which runs in London (eu-west-2). The bot check and Stripe set theirs from their own domains while you use the page in question, and read them only for that purpose.
3. Analytics cookies, only if you accept
| Purpose | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics (_ga, _ga_ followed by an ID) | Tells Google Analytics that two page views came from the same browser, so we can count visitors and see how people find Callboard. Only if you accept analytics cookies. | 13 months |
Google Analytics, run by Google in the United States, counts page views on the public site. It never runs in your account, the organiser portal or an embedded board, and it never sees the part of an address after a question mark. Until you accept, it is told that you have not consented: it sets no cookies and sends Google only a page view with no way to recognise your browser.
We also use a product analytics service, hosted in the EU, to see which parts of the product are used. It runs without cookies or local storage. When you are signed in, usage is linked to your account. You can ask us to stop that at any time through the contact form.
4. What we do not set
- No advertising cookies, and no advertising on Callboard.
- No social media pixels. The icons in the footer are plain links.
- Nothing that follows you to other sites.
5. Your choices
You can change or withdraw your analytics choice at any time: . Withdrawing removes the Google Analytics cookies from your browser.
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block the sign-in cookie you will not be able to stay signed in, and the free board still works without an account. How we handle the rest of your data is on the privacy page.