Cookie Policy
Last updated: August 28, 2026
This policy explains the cookies and similar technologies we use at https://www.promptcreek.com, why we use them, and how you control them.
In short: essential cookies always run. Analytics cookies start when you arrive and stop the moment you reject them from our banner, or immediately if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. Rejecting is one click and takes effect straight away.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a website stores on your device. Session cookies disappear when you close your browser; persistent cookies stay for a set period. Some are set by us (first-party) and some by services we use (third-party).
2. Essential cookies
These make the site work — signing in, staying signed in, and remembering your cookie choice. They cannot be turned off, and they need no consent because the site cannot function without them.
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
better-auth.session_token | PromptCreek | Keeps you signed in and identifies your session | 7 days |
cookie-consent | PromptCreek | Records which categories you allowed, so we stop asking | 1 year |
Signing out clears your session cookie. You can also revoke individual sessions from your account settings.
3. Analytics cookies
These help us see which prompts people find useful and where the site confuses them. They begin when you open the site and continue unless you reject them. Rejecting takes effect immediately, in the page you are already on: we switch both tools off, stop loading them, and delete the cookies they set on our domain. The three cookies Microsoft sets on its own domain (MUID, ANONCHK, SM) are outside our reach — clear those from your browser settings if you want them gone.
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics | Distinguishes visitors and records page views and events | 2 years |
_gid | Google Analytics | Distinguishes visitors within a 24-hour window | 24 hours |
_clck, _clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Links your interactions into a session for heatmaps and session replay | 1 year / 1 day |
MUID, ANONCHK, SM | Microsoft | Identifies unique browsers across Microsoft properties | Up to 1 year |
Microsoft Clarity records how you move through pages — clicks, scrolling, and mouse movement. It runs with Clarity's default masking, which hides the text you type into form fields.
4. Interface preferences
One further cookie, sidebar_state, remembers whether a navigation sidebar was expanded or collapsed. It lasts 7 days, is set only inside our staff administration area, and is never set for ordinary visitors. Your light/dark theme choice is kept in your browser's local storage rather than a cookie — it never reaches our servers and is not shared with anyone.
5. Cookies set elsewhere
When you go to Stripe to pay, Stripe sets its own cookies on its own checkout domain for fraud prevention and session management. Those are governed by Stripe's privacy policy, not this one. The same applies when you follow an "Open in" link to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or another AI service — once you are on their site, their cookie policy applies.
Third-party policies worth reading:
- Google Privacy Policy — Google Analytics and Sign-in with Google
- Microsoft Privacy Statement — Clarity
- Stripe Privacy Policy — payments
6. Managing your choices
Our banner
On your first visit a banner offers Accept all, Reject all, and a per-category choice. Both options are one click and rejecting is never harder than accepting. To change your mind later, click Manage Cookies in the footer of any page. Your choice is remembered for a year, after which we ask again.
Your browser
Browsers can block or delete cookies from their privacy settings. Blocking essential cookies will sign you out and prevent you from signing back in. We also honour a Global Privacy Control signal as a rejection of non-essential cookies where your browser sends one.
Opting out directly
- Google Analytics — browser opt-out add-on
- Microsoft — privacy dashboard
7. What you lose by refusing
- Essential: cannot be refused within the site — without them you cannot sign in.
- Analytics: no effect on you. We simply see less about how the site is used.
No feature is withheld because you refused optional cookies, and prices do not change.
8. Changes
If we add or change a cookie in a way that affects your choices, we will update this page and show the consent banner again so you can review your preferences.
9. Contact
Questions about cookies: hello@promptcreek.com. For how we handle personal data more broadly, see our Privacy Policy.