Cookie Policy
Introduction
VidBG Remover ("we", "our", or "us") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, and your choices regarding their use.
We use essential cookies when they are necessary to provide, secure, and operate the website. Where required by applicable law, we will ask for your consent before using non-essential cookies, such as analytics or marketing cookies. You can also control cookies through your browser settings.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners.
Similar technologies include web beacons, pixels, local storage, and other tracking technologies. Throughout this policy, we refer to all of these technologies collectively as "cookies."
Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, authentication, and accessibility. You cannot opt-out of these cookies.
- Session cookies: Maintain your session state
- Authentication cookies: Keep you signed in
- Security cookies: Protect against CSRF attacks
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or third-party providers whose services we use.
- Preference cookies: Remember your settings (language, theme)
- Feature cookies: Enable specific features you've requested
Statistics and Experience Diagnostics
Our privacy settings separate optional measurement into three purposes. Rejecting all three does not disable essential features.
- Basic usage statistics: Self-hosted Plausible provides aggregate traffic, source, device and region statistics without cookies. It is off by default in the EEA, the UK, Switzerland and unknown regions; in other recognized regions it may run by default until you decline it.
- Product analytics: Google Analytics and self-hosted OpenPanel describe traffic sources and feature usage. Both require your consent worldwide. OpenPanel receives page views and our explicit business funnel events, does not identify accounts, and does not automatically track outbound links, custom attributes or session replay. We do not send account IDs, email addresses, uploaded files or filenames as event properties.
- Experience diagnostics: Microsoft Clarity helps us understand interface problems through interaction diagnostics, such as heatmaps or session recordings. It requires a separate consent choice worldwide.
If you separately allow Experience diagnostics and sign in, we send Clarity a pseudonymous account identifier and a random session identifier to help investigate interface problems and connect feedback to recordings. These identifiers and diagnostic events do not include your name, email, filenames, media URLs or task content. Signing in does not grant this optional consent. Withdrawing consent stops future collection; it does not erase data already sent to Clarity.
Basic usage statistics use our self-hosted Plausible service to count page visits and a limited set of actions: upload failed, processing started or succeeded, download initiated, credit prompt viewed, and checkout requested or a checkout link received. Event properties are restricted to predefined processing modes, media types, download formats, entry points, failure stages and error categories. We group private or unknown page paths, send only the referrer origin, and retain only predefined source and medium tags; other query parameters and fragments are excluded. We do not send account or task IDs, filenames, uploaded media URLs or persistent visitor IDs in this layer, link it to accounts, or use it for advertising or cross-site tracking. Requests do not carry cookies. As with other web requests, the receiving infrastructure can see the IP address and User-Agent; cookieless measurement does not mean no data is processed. Basic and Product analytics are independent: declining Product analytics still allows these counts if Basic usage statistics is enabled. Declining Basic usage statistics stops them.
“Cookieless” does not mean no data is processed. Requests may expose technical information such as IP address and User-Agent to the receiving service.
The Google Analytics script may download before consent, but measurement remains disabled until Product analytics consent. OpenPanel and Clarity load only after their respective choices are allowed. Advertising scripts and choices follow a separate Google CMP flow.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
We use Google AdSense to show ads to users who have not purchased a credit pack. Google manages advertising choices through its consent management platform (CMP) where required by applicable law. Depending on your CMP choices, Google may show personalized, non-personalized, or limited ads.
- Limited ads: Do not use personal data for ad personalization. Google may still use IP addresses and basic device or page information to deliver ads, and programmatic limited ads may use cookies or local storage solely to detect invalid traffic.
- Ad-free access: We do not load AdSense ads for signed-in users who have purchased any credit pack.
Specific Cookies We Use
The following is a representative list of cookies we may use. Specific cookie names and purposes are subject to change as our service evolves:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| session-token | Authentication | 30 days | Essential |
| csrf-token | Security | Session | Essential |
| theme | UI preferences | 1 year | Functional |
| locale | Language preference | 1 year | Functional |
| cookie_consent | Stores basic, analytics and experience choices | Up to 180 days | Essential |
| utm_source | Traffic-source attribution after Product analytics consent | Up to 30 days | Analytics |
vid_attribution | Random visitor identifier after Product analytics consent | Up to 30 days, bounded by consent expiry | Analytics |
vid_erasure_*, vid_attribution_erasure | Necessary attribution-deletion proof, retry and completion controls | Up to 180 days from the deletion request | Essential |
| _ga, _gid | Google Analytics | 2 years / 24 hours | Analytics |
| _clck, _clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Up to 1 year / session | Experience |
| Google advertising cookies or local storage | Ad delivery, consent choices, measurement, and invalid-traffic detection | Varies by Google service and your choices | Advertising |
The existing utm_source cookie still stores source text. The separate vid_attribution cookie stores a random visitor identifier after Product analytics consent; the server stores its hash and can link permitted source context to registration and orders. It lasts up to 30 days from the first observation, bounded by consent expiry, without being renewed on each visit. Account and order attribution snapshots can remain for up to 90 days, also bounded by consent expiry. These identifiers are not anonymous when associated with an account. See our Privacy Policy for the data and retention details.
Turning off Product analytics clears the attribution identifier and browser context and requests deletion of optional server attribution. Deletion-control cookies or local storage may remain for up to 180 days from the request to complete or retry deletion; they are not used for analytics. Failed server deletion jobs may remain until completed. This does not delete financial orders, third-party messages or older backup copies.
Third-Party Cookies
We may use third-party services that set their own cookies, including:
- Authentication providers: Google OAuth services
- Payment providers: Third-party payment providers depending on your checkout flow
- Analytics providers: Google Analytics, self-hosted Plausible, self-hosted OpenPanel and Microsoft Clarity
- Advertising provider and CMP: Google AdSense and Google's Privacy & Messaging platform
- Content delivery networks: Cloudflare, CDN services
These third parties have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information.
Your Cookie Choices
Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can:
- View what cookies are stored on your device
- Delete cookies individually or entirely
- Block third-party cookies
- Block all cookies from specific websites
- Block all cookies entirely
- Set preferences for specific websites
Cookie Management Instructions
Here are links to cookie management instructions for popular browsers:
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies
- Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Cookies
- Edge: Settings → Privacy, search, and services → Cookies
Opt-Out Options
On your first visit, the banner can accept all three optional purposes, reject all three, or let you customize each purpose. In the EEA, the UK, Switzerland and unknown regions, Basic usage statistics starts off; elsewhere it starts on but remains rejectable. Product analytics and Experience diagnostics are off until you allow them. The cookie_consent choice is versioned and valid for up to 180 days. Older all or necessary values, malformed values and expired choices are treated as no choice and require a new selection.
Product analytics can link traffic sources and feature use with registration and orders. Earlier choices need a new selection in every region. You can use the product and pay without enabling analytics.
You can opt-out of specific types of cookies:
- Google Analytics: Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
- Microsoft Clarity: Manage its separate Experience diagnostics choice through the cookie banner or browser settings
- Advertising choices: Use Google's privacy message to manage advertising consent. If you reject advertising consent, Google may still serve limited ads as described above.
- Site cookie consent tool: Use Cookie Settings in the site footer to change Basic usage statistics, Product analytics or Experience diagnostics. This choice is separate from Google's advertising choices.
Withdrawal and Refresh
You can withdraw any optional choice through Cookie Settings. We first notify the active integrations to stop collection, clear accessible cookies for the categories you turn off, and refresh the page to unload third-party listeners and queues. Save unfinished work before saving a choice. Data already sent to a provider cannot be recalled, and browser security rules may prevent deletion of identifiers stored on another domain.
Do Not Track (DNT)
Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting. Because there is no consistent industry standard for DNT signals, our website may not respond to all DNT signals automatically. You can still manage cookie preferences using your browser controls described above.
Impact of Disabling Cookies
Please note that if you choose to block or delete cookies:
- Some parts of our website may not function properly
- You may not be able to access certain features
- You may need to re-enter information more frequently
- Your preferences may not be saved
Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, operational, or regulatory reasons. We will post any changes on this page with an updated effective date.
We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
Email: support@vidbgremover.com
Website: vidbgremover.com