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Cookie Notice.
The cookies and browser storage Mode uses, and how to turn analytics off.
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1. What this notice covers
The cookies and browser storage Mode uses on its own site and app, and the ones Mode Metrics sets on our customers' sites.
A cookie is a small file a site saves in your browser. Browser storage works the same way. This notice lists what gotmode.tech and app.gotmode.tech save, why, and for how long. The last section lists what Mode Metrics saves on a customer's site, so our customers can describe it in their own notices.
2. On gotmode.tech and app.gotmode.tech
One cookie keeps you signed in, one remembers your theme, and the rest are our own analytics.
| Name | Type | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
_mode_key | Cookie, needed | Keeps you signed in to app.gotmode.tech and remembers which organization you have open | Until you close your browser or sign out |
mode_theme | Cookie, preference | Remembers whether you chose the light or dark theme, on every gotmode.tech address | 1 year |
_mode | Cookie, analytics | Mode Metrics. An anonymous visitor ID, your session, and your user ID once you sign in | 1 year |
_mode_opt | Cookie, needed | Remembers that you turned analytics off | 10 years |
mode_attr | Browser storage, analytics | The campaign tags, ad click identifiers, referring site and landing page from the link that brought you here, first and latest. Added to the sign-in link so your account records how you found us | 90 days |
mode_s, mode_q_, mode_cfg_, mode_flags_, mode_opt | Browser storage, analytics | Mode Metrics working data, such as the current session, events waiting to be sent and settings | Until cleared |
Mode Metrics is our own product, served from m.gotmode.tech. We do not load advertising network scripts or their cookies on our site.
Session recordings. In the app, Mode Metrics records sessions so we can find and fix problems. All text on the page is masked in these recordings and form fields are never recorded.
Other companies. Our pages load their font from Google Fonts, which means your browser sends Google your IP address and browser details. Google Fonts sets no cookie. When you add a card you are on a page run by Stripe, which sets its own cookies under its own policy.
3. Your choices
You can turn analytics off, and the site still works.
- Turn analytics off. Use the control below. It saves the
_mode_optcookie and Mode Metrics stops collecting on this browser, on gotmode.tech and in the app. - Browser settings. You can block or delete cookies in your browser. If you block
_mode_keyyou cannot stay signed in.
You can refuse analytics with this control at any time, wherever you are, and withdraw a choice you made earlier the same way.
4. On our customers' sites
When a business uses Mode Metrics on its site, the business decides which of these are used and is responsible for its own cookie notice.
| Name | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|
_mode | Anonymous visitor ID, session, and user ID if the business identifies the visitor | 1 year |
_mode_opt | Remembers that the visitor opted out | 10 years |
_mode_cid | A click ID set when the visitor follows one of the business's tracked links | 90 days |
_mode_vid | Keeps the visitor in the same version of a split test | 1 year |
Mode Metrics also keeps working data in browser storage under names that start with mode_.
A business can run Mode Metrics without cookies. In that mode no cookie or browser storage is written. Visits are counted with an identifier made from the site, the visitor's IP address and browser user agent, scrambled with a secret that is replaced every day and deleted afterward, so a visitor cannot be followed from one day to the next. Sessions are not recorded in that mode.
A business can also require consent before any cookie is set, and can pass a visitor's consent choices to Mode Metrics, which then deletes its storage when analytics is refused and drops ad click identifiers when ad storage is refused.
5. Changes
The date at the top shows the current version.
We update this notice when the cookies we use change. Questions go to [email protected].
Questions about this page go to [email protected] or the contact form. Every Mode policy is listed under Other Policies.