Cookie Policy

Overview

Trend Hop uses cookies, local storage, and similar technologies for authentication, interface preferences, checkout, and analytics. This page explains how those technologies are used and what choices you have.

Essential Operations

We rely on first-party cookies and local storage to deliver core functionality. Removing or blocking them may prevent you from signing in or using parts of the service.

• Authentication & session management — Our auth layer sets secure cookies to remember your login state and keep your session between page loads.
• Language — A cookie remembers the language you chose for the site.
• Interface preferences — Your theme choice and which account-settings menu groups are expanded are kept in local storage, and a cookie remembers whether the sidebar in account settings is open.
• Generation progress — Session storage keeps references to the generations you started in the current browser tab so their progress and results stay visible while you navigate; it is cleared when the tab closes.
• Verification controls — Local storage keeps a short-lived timestamp so the resend button for verification emails can enforce a cooldown.

Payments and Checkout

When you purchase a one-time credit pack, the payment provider identified at checkout may set cookies or use similar storage to maintain checkout context, prevent fraud, and confirm payment status. Payment information is handled according to that provider's own privacy policy.

Analytics

We may use analytics tools to understand traffic, product usage, interaction patterns, and technical performance. These services may use cookies or similar technologies and collect pseudonymous identifiers, browser and device information, and on-site activity.

• Google Analytics — We may use Google Analytics to measure visits, sessions, approximate location, browser and device information, traffic sources, and on-site activity.
• Plausible-based analytics — We may use a Plausible-based script that counts page views and records referrers, browser and device type, and country.
• Microsoft Clarity — We may use Clarity to provide heatmaps and session replays based on interactions such as mouse movements, clicks, scrolling, navigation, and page rendering so we can identify usability issues.
• Application logs — Server logs may record technical request data such as IP address, request path, and response time for security and troubleshooting. These logs are not browser cookies.

Your Choices

You can manage cookies and local storage from your browser, but disabling essential items may break authentication or billing. Common options include:

• Clearing cookies or local storage after each session, or using private browsing modes.
• Blocking analytics trackers through browser or privacy controls.
• Signing out of Trend Hop to invalidate authentication cookies.

If you need more detail about our use of cookies or wish to opt out of specific analytics tools, contact us at contact@trendhop.net and we will help where legally and technically possible.

Changes to This Policy

We update this Cookie Policy when we integrate additional services or change how we rely on cookies and similar storage technologies. Changes are posted here with a new "Last updated" date.