A cookie is a tiny piece of text a website stores on your device. We use cookies (and a handful of similar things like localStorage and pixel tags) to make the site work and to understand how people use it. None of what we use is the cross-site-tracking kind that follows you around the web showing you ads.
These can't be turned off without breaking the site. They keep you logged in, remember your dark/light preference, hold your CSRF token, and make sure your shopping cart, dispute draft, or proposal-in-progress survives a page reload.
spectrum_token — your authenticated session.auth_token — the same token, set as an HttpOnly cookie after Google sign-in.user_role — whether you're in the creator or client surface.Optional. These remember your preferences so the product feels less amnesiac, like which sub-tab you had open on the projects page or whether you've dismissed a coachmark.
Optional. We count page views, button clicks, and how long actions take, in aggregate. We use this to find which screens confuse people and which features get used. We don't use analytics cookies to build advertising profiles, and we don't share them with third-party ad networks.
Off by default and rarely used. If we ever run a campaign that needs a conversion pixel from someone like LinkedIn or Reddit, we'll list the cookies it sets here before we turn it on, and the consent banner will let you decline.
The first time you visit, you'll see a consent banner at the bottom of the screen. Three options: accept all, accept only what's strictly necessary, or open the details and pick category by category.
Your choice lives in a cookie called spectrum_cookie_consent. To revisit the prompt, click the “Cookie settings” link in the footer, or clear your browser's storage for spectrumconnect.co.
You can also block cookies in your browser settings, but blocking strictly-necessary cookies will stop you from being able to log in.
We try to keep this list short and current. Today it includes:
Browsers used to send a “Do Not Track” signal that nobody really honoured. Most browsers have moved on. We don't rely on DNT, but our consent banner is the authoritative way to tell us what you want, and we respect it.
If we add or remove a cookie category, we'll update this page and re-trigger the consent banner so you can refresh your choice. Small changes (a renamed cookie, a version bump on an existing service) won't reset your consent.
Email privacy@spectrumconnect.co and we'll get back to you.