Cookies Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://mythrifts.in

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners.

How We Use Cookies

ThriftLOOP uses cookies to enhance your experience and provide essential functionality. We use the following types of cookies:

Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the service to function properly:

Session Cookies: Keep you logged in and maintain your session. These cookies are deleted when you close your browser.
Authentication Cookies: Store your login credentials securely through Replit Auth.
Analytics Cookies
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use our service:

Google Analytics (ga, _ga*, _gid): These cookies collect anonymous information about how you use ThriftLOOP, including pages visited, time spent on pages, and user interactions. This helps us improve our service.
Google Analytics data is anonymized and does not personally identify you. For more information about how Google uses data, visit Google’s Privacy Policy.

Functionality Cookies
These cookies remember your preferences:

Theme Preference: Remembers whether you prefer light or dark mode.
Distance Unit: Remembers your preference for miles or kilometers.
Pending Route Data: Temporarily stores your route planning data in local storage.
Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies are placed by third-party services we use:

Replit Auth: Authentication service that manages your login session.
Google Analytics: Web analytics service that tracks usage patterns.
Managing Cookies
You can control and manage cookies in several ways:

Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings:

Delete all cookies
Block all cookies
Allow all cookies
Block third-party cookies
Clear cookies when you close your browser
Please note that blocking essential cookies will prevent you from using certain features of ThriftLOOP, such as staying logged in.

Opting Out of Analytics
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology or legal requirements. We will notify you of any significant changes by updating the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.

More Information
For more information about how we handle your data, please see our Privacy Policy.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.