Cookie Policy

This is an earlier version of our Cookie Policy, which took effect on October 27, 2026. It no longer applies. Read the current Cookie Policy.

Effective date: October 27, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Draw My Tree, operated by Prescott Bros LLC, uses cookies and similar browser storage. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

What cookies and local storage are

Cookies are small files a site stores in your browser. "Local storage" is a related browser mechanism that lets a site keep small amounts of data on your device. Both let the app remember things between visits.

What we use

• Strictly necessary: authentication. Our sign-in provider, Clerk, sets cookies that keep you securely signed in and protect against fraud. The Service cannot function without these.
• Preferences. We store your display preferences, such as text size and the tree's appearance settings, in your browser's local storage so the app looks the way you left it.
• Guest trees. If you build a tree without an account, that tree is kept on your device in your browser's IndexedDB storage until you sign up and save it. Photos from it that your account can't take yet (on the free plan, more than one per person) wait in a separate part of that storage, tied to your account, until they upload; signing out doesn't remove them. Clearing your browser data removes the tree and the waiting photos.
• Analytics. Our product analytics keeps a random identifier in your browser, never in a cookie. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, or we can't tell which country you are in, it is kept in session storage: each tab gets its own, and it ends when the tab closes. Elsewhere it is kept in local storage, so it stays the same across your tabs and visits in that browser until you clear the browser's data, and signing out replaces it with a new one. The country is the one Cloudflare infers from your connection, used only to make this choice and not stored.
• Payments. When you subscribe or buy a Keepsake, our payments provider Polar may set cookies on its hosted checkout that are needed to process the payment securely.

We do not use advertising cookies, and we do not sell information collected through cookies.

Managing cookies

You can clear or block cookies and local storage through your browser settings. Note that blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent you from signing in and using core features, and clearing local storage will remove guest trees and reset your preferences.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the Service changes. When we do, we will update the effective date above.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to contact@drawmytree.com.