This Cookie Policy explains how PlanetScale uses cookies and similar technologies in connection with our Services.
If you have any questions or concerns about the Cookie Policy, please contact us at privacy@planetscale.com or as otherwise described in our Privacy Policy.
What are cookies and similar technologies?
- Cookies are text files that websites store on a visitor’s device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser for the purpose of helping you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, enabling functionality, helping us understand activity and patterns, and facilitating online advertising.
- Local storage technologies, like HTML5, provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data, including on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.
- Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, are used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked.
This Cookie Policy refers to all these technologies collectively as “cookies.”
How do we use cookies and other similar technologies?
We use both persistent cookies and session cookies. Persistent cookies stay on your device for a set period of time or until you delete them, while session cookies are deleted once you close your web browser. We use persistent cookies, for example, to record your choice of language and country location. The cookies placed through your use of our website are either set by us (first-party cookies) or by a third party at our request (third-party cookies).
We also allow our advertising partners to collect this information through our website.
What types of cookies and similar technologies do we use?
We use the following categories of cookies:
- Essential. We use essential cookies to help make our website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but then some parts of the websites will not work.
- Functionality / performance. We use these cookies to enhance the functionality and performance of the Services.
- Analytics. We use these cookies to help us understand how our Services are performing and being used. Specifically, we use Google Analytics to collect information about how users use our Services, which we then use to compile reports that disclose trends without identifying individual visitors, and help us improve our Services. For more information on Google Analytics, click here. For more information about Google’s privacy practices, click here. You can opt out of by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Advertising. We and our third-party advertising partners use these cookies to collect information about how you use our website and use that information to serve online ads that may be relevant to your interests. Please find examples of the third-party advertising cookies we use and links to their platform opt out pages in the following section.
- Email Interaction Technology. Our emails may contain web beacons to tell us whether they are opened and verify any clicks through to links within an email. We (and our marketing service provider on our behalf) use this information to help us understand how an email campaign performed, what types of emails and content our recipients find interesting, and what actions our recipients took, so we can improve our email campaigns in the future and make our emails more relevant to our recipients. If you do not wish the web beacon to be downloaded onto your device, you should select to receive emails from us in plain text rather than HTML.
We keep a record of cookies we use:
| Cookie Name | Source | Cookie Type | Expiration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_api_bb_session | .planetscale.com | Essential | 1 week | Access control |
_www_session | .planetscale.com | Essential | 2 years | Access control |
ajs_anonymous_id | .planetscale.com | Analytics | 180 days | Track a visitor’s identity for readme.io |
ekfls | api-docs.planetscale.com | Functionality/performance | Session | Maintain the data stored for the API reference support page for readme.io |
signed_in | .planetscale.com | Essential | Session | Load balancing |
staff_mode | app.planetscale.com | Functionality/performance | Session | Internal only: debug information user ID, organization ID, commit SHA |
tz | app.planetscale.com | Essential | Session | Customize timestamps to your time zone |
__hs_cookie_cat_pref | planetscale.com | Functionality/performance | 180 days | Store cookie consent preferences |
__hssc | planetscale.com | Analytics | 30 minutes | Anonymize statistics for HubSpot |
__hssrc | planetscale.com | Functionality/performance | Session | Session ID for HubSpot |
__hstc | planetscale.com | Analytics | 180 days | Time of visit for HubSpot |
hubspotutk | planetscale.com | Analytics | 180 days | Track a visitor’s identity for HubSpot |
You can also limit online tracking by:
Blocking cookies in your browser. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies, including cookies used for interest-based advertising. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Use the following links to learn more about how to control cookies and online tracking through your browser:
Blocking advertising ID use in your mobile settings. Your mobile device settings can provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.
Using privacy plug-ins or browsers. You can block our websites from setting cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, Ghostery, or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.
Advertising industry opt out tools. You can also use these opt out options to limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by participating companies:
- Digital Advertising Alliance for Websites: optout.aboutads.info
- Network Advertising Initiative: optout.networkadvertising.org
Platform opt-outs. Some of our advertising partners offer opt-out features that let you opt out of use of your information for interest-based advertising, including:
Note that because these opt out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use.
Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers can be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit allaboutdnt.com.