Cookie Policy

Required to keep you signed in, protect your session, and know who you are on each request. Your authentication token is stored both as a cookie and in local storage; the associated refresh token and cached profile live in local storage. These last up to 7 days, so closing the tab or the browser leaves you signed in when you come back, and signing out clears all of them immediately. Without these, you cannot stay signed in. These never require consent and are not affected by your cookie preferences below.

Examples: vessbook_token (cookie + local storage, 7 days), vessbook_refresh_token (local storage), vessbook_user (local storage)

Used to remember your preferences and working state between visits — your saved clause shelf, dashboard/deal filters, dismissed announcements, and a short-lived cache of vessel positions used by the fleet map. None of this is shared with third parties. (Desk tool calculator history and mock trades are saved to your account on our servers, not to local storage, so they follow you across devices.)

Examples: clause shelf, dashboard filters & dismissed announcements, vessel position cache (AIS)

We use Google Analytics (GA4) to understand how the platform is used — which pages are visited, general usage patterns, and site performance. This is separate from the cookie-less, first-party page-view counter described below, which runs regardless of your choice here. Google Analytics only sets cookies and starts collecting once you accept this category in the cookie banner or Cookie Preferences; until then it runs in a denied, cookie-less state via Google's Consent Mode.

Examples: _ga, _ga_<container-id>

Used to measure ad performance and, where enabled, show you relevant ads based on a previous visit (retargeting) — for example through Google Ads, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), or LinkedIn. Like Analytics, these only run once you accept this category; not every platform listed here is necessarily active at a given time, but all are gated the same way if and when they are.

Examples: Google Ads remarketing, Meta Pixel (_fbp, _fbc), LinkedIn Insight Tag (li_sugr, bcookie)

Set or loaded by third-party services embedded in the platform, such as map tiles (CARTO), live vessel position data (AIS), and market price indicators. Governed by each provider's own privacy practices, not this policy.

Examples: CARTO map tiles, AIS vessel position data, Market price data