Cookie Policy
Effective Date: January 1, 2025
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit TrackMyHours. They help us provide essential time tracking functionality and improve your experience with our reporting and invoicing features.
Cookies enable us to remember your login status while you track time, maintain your session across different pages, and store preferences for how you view your time tracking data.
These cookies are necessary for TrackMyHours to function properly and cannot be disabled:
- Authentication Cookies: Keep you logged in while tracking time and accessing reports
- Security Cookies: Protect against unauthorized access to your time tracking data
- Session Cookies: Maintain your active session across different pages
- Form Data Cookies: Temporarily store time entry data while you're inputting information
Without these cookies, you would need to log in repeatedly and could lose time tracking data when navigating between pages.
These cookies enhance your time tracking experience by remembering your preferences:
- Display Preferences: Remember your preferred time format and date display
- Dashboard Layout: Store your customized view settings for time entries
- Timer Settings: Remember your default project and task names
- Report Preferences: Save your preferred report formats and date ranges
You can disable these cookies, but it may affect the convenience of using our time tracking features.
We use analytics cookies to understand how users interact with our time tracking, reporting, and invoicing features:
- Usage Analytics: Track which time tracking features are most popular
- Performance Monitoring: Identify slow-loading reports or time entry forms
- Error Tracking: Detect issues with timer functionality or data saving
- Feature Adoption: Understand how users discover and use new features
This data is aggregated and anonymous - we cannot identify individual users or their specific time tracking activities. It helps us improve the platform for everyone.
Some features of TrackMyHours may use third-party services that set their own cookies:
- Analytics Services: Help us understand overall platform usage
- Support Tools: Enable customer support chat and help features
- Payment Processing: Handle subscription payments securely
These third parties have their own privacy policies governing their use of cookies. We carefully select partners who share our commitment to user privacy.
You have several options for controlling cookies:
Browser Settings:
- Most browsers allow you to view, delete, and block cookies
- You can set browsers to warn you before accepting cookies
- Private/incognito mode automatically deletes cookies when you close the browser
Our Cookie Controls:
- You can opt out of analytics cookies in your account settings
- Essential cookies cannot be disabled without affecting time tracking functionality
Note: Disabling essential cookies will prevent you from staying logged in and may cause loss of time tracking data.
Different types of cookies are stored for different periods:
- Session Cookies: Deleted when you close your browser
- Authentication Cookies: Stored for up to 7 days for automatic login
- Preference Cookies: Stored for up to 1 year to remember your settings
- Analytics Cookies: Stored for up to 2 years for trend analysis
If we release mobile apps for time tracking in the future, they may use similar technologies to cookies (such as local storage) to provide the same functionality. This policy will be updated to cover mobile-specific data storage when applicable.
We may update this Cookie Policy when we add new features to our time tracking platform or change how we use cookies. We will notify users of significant changes and update the effective date at the top of this policy.
If you have questions about our use of cookies or need help managing your cookie preferences, please contact us at support@trackmyhours.app