Cookie Policy
The short version. Focus Pivot uses cookies to sign you in, keep forms secure, carry you through sign-up, and remember a few preferences. We do not use advertising cookies, analytics cookies or anything that tracks you across other websites. Anything beyond the essentials waits for your answer in Cookie settings, which we show the first time you visit: nothing that is not essential is used until you allow it.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser and reads back on later visits. "Session" cookies are deleted when you close your browser. "Persistent" cookies stay until they expire or you delete them. Websites can also keep information in your browser's "local storage", which works much like a cookie but is not sent to the server automatically. In this Policy, "cookies" includes local storage. This Policy is part of our Privacy Policy.
2. Cookies we set
All cookies we set are first-party cookies, used only by Focus Pivot, on our own domain.
| Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
.AspNetCore.Cookies, .FocusPivot | Keeps you signed in, and signs you out after a period of inactivity | Strictly necessary | Until you sign out or your sign-in expires |
.FocusPivotSession | Holds temporary information between pages during your visit | Strictly necessary | Session |
.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.* | Protects the forms you submit against cross-site request forgery | Strictly necessary (security) | Session |
FocusPivot.External | Carries you back to Focus Pivot when you sign in or sign up with Google or Apple | Strictly necessary | 10 minutes |
RegisteredEmail, RegisteredEmailClaimId, RegisteredEmailClaimKey, RegisteredPhone, RegisteredPhoneCode, RegisteredPhoneClaimId, UnverifiedEmail, UnverifiedPhone, UnverifiedPhoneCode | Remember the email address or phone number you are verifying during sign-up or a change of contact details, so the code screen can confirm it and resend a code | Strictly necessary | Until the step is completed, at most 1 day |
fp_invite | Remembers the invitation you opened, so it can be accepted when you create your account | Strictly necessary | Until accepted, or 30 days |
fp_signup_hold | Stops a new account being started in this browser for a day after a sign-up we could not accept | Strictly necessary | 1 day |
fp_consent | Remembers your answer to Cookie settings, so we do not ask on every page | Strictly necessary | 1 year |
lang | Remembers the language you chose | Preference | Persistent |
templateCustomizer-* (local storage) | Remembers display choices such as light or dark theme and menu layout | Preference | Until you clear your browser's storage |
3. Third parties
- Payments. When you open a checkout page to buy a plan, our payment provider, Stripe, loads its payment form. Stripe may set its own cookies, such as
__stripe_midand__stripe_sid, to process the payment and prevent fraud. See Stripe's privacy policy at stripe.com/privacy. - Sign-in with Google or Apple. If you choose to sign in this way, you are taken to Google's or Apple's own pages, which set their own cookies under their own policies.
- Address suggestions (Functional). If you allow Functional cookies, the Location field on Services → Jobs asks Google Maps for address suggestions as you type. Your browser then loads Google's Maps script, and Google receives your IP address, browser information and what you type into that field, and may set or read its own cookies. Nothing is loaded from Google until you allow it. See Google's privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy.
We have no advertising networks, social media plug-ins, or third-party analytics on our site.
4. How to control cookies
Cookie settings. The first time you visit, we ask which cookies beyond the essential ones you allow. Essential cookies, everything in section 2, are always on. Functional lets features that load from another company's servers work, today the Google Maps address suggestions in section 3. Marketing would let analytics and advertising tags run: we have none, and if we ever add one it will be named here first and stay off until you allow it. Both start off, and refusing is as easy as accepting. Your answer is kept in that browser, in the fp_consent cookie, for a year, after which we ask again; if you are signed in, we also keep a record of it with your account as proof of what you chose. Change it at any time with "Cookie settings" at the foot of our pages, or in Account Settings → Privacy. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, Marketing stays off.
Most browsers let you see, block and delete cookies and local storage in their settings. Look under "Privacy", "Cookies" or "Site data". If you block cookies we mark as strictly necessary, you will not be able to sign in or complete sign-up, and parts of the Service will not work. Deleting preference cookies resets those choices to their defaults.
Our approach to Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals is described in section 10 of our Privacy Policy.
5. Changes to this Policy
If we start using a new kind of cookie, we will update this Policy first. If a new cookie or feature is not strictly necessary, for example one used for analytics, it stays off until you allow it in Cookie settings, and we ask everyone again.
6. Contact us
Questions about cookies or privacy: privacy@focuspivot.com.