Cookie Policy & Settings
How ResumeFlow uses cookies, local storage, and similar tracking technologies to provide and improve our service.
Last updated: July 22, 2026
1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, provide a better user experience, and give website owners information about how their site is being used. Local storage is a similar technology that allows websites to store information locally on your browser for persistent data that doesn't need to be transmitted to the server with every request.
2. How We Use Cookies
ResumeFlow uses cookies and local storage for the following purposes:
- Authentication: Session cookies verify your login status and maintain your authenticated session across page navigations within our dashboard.
- Security: We use cookies to detect and prevent fraudulent activity, protect user accounts from unauthorized access, and enforce rate limiting.
- User Preferences: Local storage remembers your UI layout choices (such as workspace maximization state), template selections, and theme preferences.
- Performance & Analytics: We use analytics cookies to understand how users interact with our service, identify areas for improvement, and measure feature adoption.
- Advertising: With your consent, third-party advertising partners (including Google AdSense) may set cookies to serve relevant advertisements based on your browsing activity.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Essential / Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the basic functioning of our platform. They enable secure login, database query authentication, and session management. Without these cookies, core features like signing in, accessing the dashboard, and tailoring resumes would not function. These cookies do not require user consent and cannot be disabled through our cookie preference tools.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies remember your preferences and choices to provide a personalized experience. This includes remembering your selected resume template, workspace layout preferences, and dismissed notification banners. Information collected by these cookies may be anonymized and does not track your browsing activity on other websites.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
We use analytics services (including but not limited to Google Analytics, Sentry, and Vercel Analytics) to collect aggregated data about how visitors use our platform. This includes page views, feature interactions, error rates, and load times. This data helps us improve our service and identify technical issues. These cookies collect anonymized data and do not directly identify individual users.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies (Google AdSense)
Our website uses Google AdSense, a service provided by Google LLC (“Google”), to display advertisements. Google AdSense uses cookies (specifically, the DoubleClick cookie from Google) to serve ads based on your previous visits to our website and other websites across the internet. These cookies enable Google and its partners to serve personalized ads based on your browsing history and interests.
The DoubleClick cookie enables Google to: (a) serve advertisements to users based on their visit to our Website and/or other websites; (b) measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns; (c) prevent the same ad from appearing too frequently; and (d) report on ad impressions and interactions. You can learn more about how Google uses data when you use our site by visiting Google's Privacy & Terms site.
Opt-Out: You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of third-party cookies used for personalized advertising by visiting https://optout.aboutads.info (for US-based users) or https://www.youronlinechoices.com (for EU-based users).
4. Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may use various third-party services that also set cookies on your device. These third parties include:
- Google AdSense & DoubleClick: Advertising personalization and measurement cookies as described above.
- Google Analytics: Aggregated usage analytics and behavior tracking.
- Sentry: Error tracking and performance monitoring (may set functional cookies for session correlation).
- Convex (Database Provider): Authentication session verification (essential cookies).
- Clerk (Authentication Provider): Session and authentication cookies for user sign-in.
- Vercel (Hosting Provider): Analytics and deployment monitoring.
These third-party services have their own privacy policies governing the use of your data. We encourage you to review their policies for complete information about their data processing practices.
5. Cookie Consent and Your Choices
When you first visit ResumeFlow, we display a cookie consent banner that allows you to choose which categories of cookies you accept. You can:
- Accept all cookies (essential, functional, analytics, and advertising).
- Accept only essential and functional cookies (reject analytics and advertising).
- Reject all non-essential cookies (continue with essential cookies only).
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the “Cookie Settings” link in the footer of our website. You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Most web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences through their settings menus. Please consult your browser's help documentation for specific instructions.
Please note that blocking or deleting essential cookies may impact your ability to use certain features of our platform, including signing in and accessing your dashboard.
6. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, regulation, or our business practices. When we make material changes, we will notify you by updating the “Last updated” date at the top of this policy and, where appropriate, through a prominent notice on our website or via email. We encourage you to review this page periodically for the latest information about our cookie practices.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies and tracking technologies, please contact us at support@resumeflow.harshithkumar.in or visit our Contact Us page.