1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how Resumedit (“we,” “our,” or “us”) uses cookies on our website, and how you can control cookie preferences. This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners.
Cookies allow websites to recognize your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions. This helps us provide you with a better experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our services.
3. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several purposes:
- To enable certain functions of our website
- To provide analytics and understand how visitors use our website
- To store your preferences and improve your user experience
- To assist with authentication and security
- To deliver relevant advertisements (with your consent)
4. Types of Cookies We Use
4.1 Essential Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You cannot opt-out of these cookies as they are essential for the website to work.
Examples of Essential Cookies:
- Authentication cookies: Store your login session and authentication tokens
- Security cookies: Help protect against security threats and unauthorized access
- User preference cookies: Remember your language, theme, and other basic preferences
- CSRF protection cookies: Protect against cross-site request forgery attacks
Duration: Session cookies (deleted when you close your browser) or persistent cookies (expire after 1 year or when you log out)
4.2 Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us improve the website's structure, content, and user experience.
Examples of Analytics Cookies:
- Page view tracking: Count how many times pages are visited
- Feature usage: Track which features are used most frequently
- User flow analysis: Understand how users navigate through the website
- Performance monitoring: Identify slow-loading pages and errors
- Conversion tracking: Measure sign-ups, subscriptions, and other key actions
Duration: Up to 2 years (or as configured by the analytics provider)
Third-party services: We may use services like Google Analytics to collect this information. These services have their own privacy policies governing the use of your data.
4.3 Marketing Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver relevant advertisements and track campaign performance. They may be set by our advertising partners and can track your browsing habits across different websites to build a profile of your interests.
Examples of Marketing Cookies:
- Retargeting cookies: Show you relevant ads based on your previous visits
- Campaign tracking: Measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns
- Conversion pixels: Track when users complete desired actions (sign-ups, purchases)
- Social media pixels: Facebook Pixel, LinkedIn Insight Tag, etc.
- A/B testing: Test different versions of pages to improve conversions
Duration: Up to 1 year (or as configured by the advertising provider)
Third-party services: We may use services like Facebook Pixel, Google Ads, LinkedIn Insight Tag, and other advertising platforms. These services have their own privacy policies and cookie practices.
5. Third-Party Services
5.1 Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics, deliver advertisements, and provide other services. These third parties may set their own cookies or similar technologies on your device.
Third-Party Services We May Use:
- Google Analytics: Website analytics and usage tracking
- Google Ads: Advertising and conversion tracking
- Facebook Pixel: Advertising and retargeting
- LinkedIn Insight Tag: Professional network advertising
- Stripe: Payment processing (essential cookies only)
- NextAuth.js: Authentication services (essential cookies only)
These third-party services have their own privacy policies and cookie practices. We recommend reviewing their policies to understand how they use cookies and your data.
5.2 Measurement That Does Not Use Cookies
We also use Vercel Web Analytics to count traffic to the site. It sets no cookies, so strictly speaking it does not belong in a cookie policy.
It works differently from everything else on this page. It stores nothing on your device and reads nothing from it. There is no cookie, no local storage entry, and no identifier that persists after you leave. Visits are counted using a short-lived value that Vercel calculates on its own servers from the incoming request and discards within 24 hours. It cannot follow you to another website, and it cannot be used to build a profile of you.
What it records for each page view:
- The time of the visit and the page address
- The referring site, if you arrived from a link
- Approximate location, no more precise than country, region, and city
- Browser, operating system, and whether you are on desktop, tablet, or mobile
Why the banner does not control it: cookie consent law governs storing and reading information on your device. This tool does neither, so it falls outside those rules and runs regardless of your cookie choices. We rely on our legitimate interest in knowing how much traffic the site receives, and the data is only ever used in aggregate.
If you would prefer not to be counted at all, a tracker-blocking browser extension or a browser that blocks analytics requests will stop it, and the site will work exactly the same.
6. Cookie Duration
Cookies can be either “session” or “persistent” cookies:
- Session cookies: Temporary cookies that expire when you close your browser. These are used for essential functions like maintaining your login session.
- Persistent cookies: Cookies that remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. These are used to remember your preferences and for analytics/marketing purposes.
Your saved cookie choices expire after 6 months where the law requires us to ask permission first, and after 1 year everywhere else. When they expire we ask again. You can update your choices at any time using the link in the footer of our website.
7. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have several options for managing cookies:
7.1 What Happens Where You Are
Privacy law does not work the same way everywhere, so our banner does not either. We detect the country and, in the United States, the state you are connecting from, and apply the rule that fits.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Brazil, Quebec or another country whose law requires prior consent: nothing but essential cookies runs until you choose. The banner offers:
- Accept All: Allow essential, analytics, and marketing cookies
- Reject All: Allow only essential cookies
- Customize: Choose category by category
If you are in the United States: no state privacy law requires us to ask before setting analytics or advertising cookies, so they are on when you arrive. This is true in California under the CCPA and CPRA just as it is in Massachusetts, New York, and every other state. That statement is about the state privacy statutes. Other bodies of law, including older wiretap and pen-register statutes, address website tracking separately and are being actively litigated, so it is not the last word on the subject. The banner tells you they are running and gives you:
- Reject All: Turn off analytics and advertising cookies, delete the ones already set, and stop the sale or sharing of your personal information
- Customize: Turn off either category on its own
- Accept All: Confirm you are happy for them to keep running
If we cannot tell where you are, we apply the stricter rule and ask permission first.
If you close the banner with the X: we treat that as no answer, not as agreement. Nothing changes and nothing is recorded. If we were waiting for your permission, we keep waiting and nothing beyond essential cookies runs. If cookies were already running, they carry on. We put the banner away for the rest of your visit and ask again next time. Closing the box is never read as consent.
7.2 Update Your Choices Anytime
You can change your choices at any time by:
- Clicking “Your Privacy Choices” (or “Cookie Preferences” outside the United States) in the footer of our website
- Adjusting your browser settings (see section 7.3)
- Clearing your browser cookies and revisiting our website to see the banner again
When you turn a category off, we delete the cookies that category set and reload the page without those scripts. Turning something off actually stops it. It does not merely stop us from setting anything new.
7.3 Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent. However, blocking essential cookies may affect your ability to use our website.
How to manage cookies in popular browsers:
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
- Firefox: Options → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
- Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Cookies and website data
- Edge: Settings → Privacy, search, and services → Cookies and site permissions
Note: If you disable cookies, some features of our website may not function properly. Essential cookies are required for basic functionality, so blocking all cookies may prevent you from using certain features.
8. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track
8.1 Global Privacy Control (GPC)
We detect and honor the Global Privacy Control signal. If your browser or a browser extension sends GPC, we treat it as a request to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information, and we switch off analytics and advertising cookies automatically. You do not need to interact with our banner for this to take effect, and we tell you in the banner when we have detected the signal.
Twelve states currently require businesses to honor a universal opt-out signal such as GPC: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, and Texas. We honor it for every visitor regardless of where they are.
If you have GPC enabled and you deliberately turn a category back on in our preferences panel, we treat that later choice as your decision for this browser. You can always switch it off again.
8.2 Do Not Track (DNT)
Some browsers include an older “Do Not Track” feature. There is no agreed standard for how DNT should be interpreted and no privacy law recognizes it as an opt-out signal, so our website does not respond to DNT. Use GPC, our banner, or the footer link instead.
9. Cookies and Personal Data
Some cookies we use may collect personal data. When this happens, our Privacy Policy applies to the collection and use of that personal data. We process personal data collected through cookies in accordance with the data protection laws that apply to us.
Analytics and marketing cookies may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, and browsing behavior. This information is used to improve our services and deliver relevant content and advertisements.
10. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the “Last updated” date. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us at legal@resumedit.com.