Cookie Policy
This page explains the cookies and browser storage used by Designesto, why they are needed, and how you can manage optional analytics storage.
Both acceptance and refusal are retained in a first-party cookie for 180 days. A sessionStorage copy of a refusal is retained as a fallback when cookie storage is unavailable. There are no advertising or tag-manager cookies.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies and storage entries support sign-in, security, payments, saved work, and consent preferences. They are always active. During sign-up and login, the Turnstile widget loads inside a Cloudflare frame from challenges.cloudflare.com. Cloudflare may set strictly necessary cookies on that Cloudflare domain. The cf_clearance cookie is not set on our domain because Turnstile pre-clearance is not enabled.
- Cookie
- auth_token
- Duration
- 7 days
- Description
- Keeps you signed in and protects your account pages.
- Cookie
- auth_user
- Duration
- 7 days
- Description
- Your account details, so the app knows who you are as soon as a page loads.
- Cookie
- auth_credits
- Duration
- 7 days
- Description
- Your credit balance, so it appears without waiting for a separate request.
- Cookie
- better-auth.session_token
- Duration
- Set by our sign-in service
- Description
- The secure sign-in session created when you log in.
- Cookie
- designesto_cookie_consent
- Duration
- 6 months
- Description
- Remembers the cookie choice you made here so we can honour it.
- Cookie
- __cf_bm
- Duration
- 30 minutes of continuous inactivity
- Domain
- challenges.cloudflare.com
- Set by
- Cloudflare
- Description
- Cloudflare may set this strictly necessary bot-management cookie in the Turnstile frame used during sign-up and login.
- Cookie
- _cfuvid
- Duration
- Not stated by Cloudflare
- Domain
- challenges.cloudflare.com
- Set by
- Cloudflare
- Description
- Cloudflare may set this strictly necessary rate-limiting cookie in the Turnstile frame used during sign-up and login.
- Cookie
- pendingToolImage, pendingToolReturn
- Duration
- Until you close the tab
- Description
- Keeps an upload you started if you have to sign in part-way through.
- Cookie
- virtual_staging_db
- Duration
- Until you clear it
- Description
- Saves your in-progress staging work so it is not lost.
- Cookie
- serwist caches
- Duration
- Managed by the app
- Description
- Stores app files so pages load quickly and work offline.
- Cookie
- Razorpay checkout
- Duration
- Set by Razorpay
- Description
- Used by our payment provider to confirm a payment is genuine.
- Cookie
- show_onboarding
- Duration
- Until you clear it
- Description
- Remembers that you have already seen the product tour.
- Cookie
- designesto:install-prompt-dismissed
- Duration
- Until you close the tab
- Description
- Stops the app install prompt reappearing after you dismiss it.
- Cookie
- cached_history_items
- Duration
- Until you clear it
- Description
- Loads your history faster the next time you open it.
- Cookie
- toolsSavedProperty
- Duration
- Until you close the tab
- Description
- Keeps the property you selected as you move between tools.
- Cookie
- user-id
- Duration
- Until you clear it
- Description
- Identifies your chat so replies come back to the right conversation.
- Cookie
- chat-id
- Duration
- Until you clear it
- Description
- Keeps the messages in a chat thread together.
- Cookie
- open_edit_prompt_text, open_edit_prompt_images
- Duration
- Until you clear it
- Description
- Passes your prompt and images through to the image editor.
- Cookie
- credits_bought, show_credit_upgraded, google-auth-success
- Duration
- Until you clear it
- Description
- Shows a one-off confirmation message after a purchase or sign-in.
Analytics cookies
Analytics is currently switched off. If it is enabled in a future deployment, these optional entries will remain off until you choose to allow them. First-party Clarity cookies can be purged when you withdraw; Microsoft-domain identifiers cannot be removed from this site.
- Cookie
- _ga
- Duration
- 13 months
- Description
- Google Analytics: tells us whether you are a new or returning visitor.
- Cookie
- _ga_<container id>
- Duration
- 13 months
- Description
- Google Analytics: keeps track of your current visit so it is not counted twice.
- Cookie
- _gid
- Duration
- 24 hours
- Description
- Google Analytics: groups your activity for the day so visits can be counted.
- Cookie
- _clck
- Duration
- 1 year
- Description
- Microsoft Clarity: a random id, used to see which tools people finish.
- Cookie
- _clsk
- Duration
- 1 day
- Description
- Microsoft Clarity: joins up the pages you view in a single visit.
- Cookie
- CLID, ANONCHK, MUID, SM
- Duration
- Set by Microsoft, up to 1 year
- Description
- Clarity's own identifiers, set on Microsoft's domains. MUID is also a Microsoft advertising identifier. We cannot delete these from here, so refusing analytics stops them being set again.