Cookie Notice
In short
- Essential cookies keep you signed in and the site secure; they cannot be switched off.
- Analytics and preference cookies run only if you allow them.
- You can change your choice at any time with the Cookie settings button on this page.
- We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
1. What this covers
Cookies and similar technologies — local storage, session storage and browser-held records — used on evifound.com and in the evifound platform, operated by Evifound.
2. Categories we use
| Category | Purpose | Can you turn it off? | Typical lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Sign-in and session, authentication tokens, security and abuse prevention, load balancing, remembering your cookie choice | No — the service will not work without them | Session to 12 months |
| Functional | Remembering preferences such as your view settings, and holding a pitch deck you upload before signing in | Yes | Until you clear it |
| Analytics and performance | Understanding which pages are used, and diagnosing errors and slow pages | Yes | Up to 12 months |
We do not use advertising, retargeting or cross-site tracking cookies, and we do not sell any data collected through cookies.
3. Pitch decks uploaded before sign-in
If you upload a pitch deck or business plan before creating an account, the file is stored in your own browser so it can be attached when you create a company record. It is not sent to us until then, and clearing your browser storage removes it.
4. Managing your choice
Use the Cookie settings button on this page to review or change your consent at any time. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings, though blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent sign-in from working.
Where required, we ask for consent before setting anything other than strictly necessary cookies, and we record your choice in your browser for 12 months.
Global Privacy Control. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, we treat it as an opt-out: analytics cookies are not set and any prior analytics consent is disregarded, without you needing to change anything.
5. Third parties
Some cookies are set by the providers that host, secure, analyse and support the service. They act on our instructions and are listed by category on the Sub-processors page.
6. More information
How we use the data collected, and your rights, are described in the Privacy Policy.
7. Changes
We update this notice when the cookies we use change, and revise the effective date.