Cookie policy

Your choice

On your first visit Carrywatch asks whether it may count your visits. Accept and Reject are equal choices, and nothing is counted until you accept. Your choice is kept for 12 months and covers carrywatch.com and app.carrywatch.com. You can change it at any time with Cookie settings, also at the bottom of every page.

If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, Carrywatch treats it as a reject: you are not asked and your visits are not counted.

Essential cookies

These are first-party and strictly necessary for what you asked to do, so they do not need consent. None is used for tracking or advertising. Most are only set when you sign in or open an invite link.

• cw_consent: set when you click Accept or Reject. It remembers whether you accepted or rejected analytics on the cookie banner, so you are not asked on every page. Lasts 12 months, or until you change your choice.
• cw_session: set when you sign in. It keeps you signed in to your Carrywatch account. Lasts up to 30 days, or until you sign out.
• cw_shared: set when you sign in, or on your first visit after the app moved to app.carrywatch.com. It notes that your sign-in already covers app.carrywatch.com as well as carrywatch.com, so it is only moved over once. Lasts 30 days.
• cw_invite: set when you open a member's shared invite link. It remembers the invite link you opened, so signing in or buying Pro from it counts the invite. Lasts 7 days.
• cw_link_pending: set when a LinkedIn or X sign-in cannot sign you in directly. It remembers, signed and for 10 minutes, the LinkedIn or X account you tried to sign in with, holding only that account's ID, so you can connect it after signing in with your email. Lasts 10 minutes.
• cw_known: set when you sign in. It lets this browser ask for sign-in links even when someone else has asked for many to your address today, and holds a keyed one-way hash, not the address. Lasts one year.

All of them except cw_consent are HttpOnly, so scripts on the page cannot read them.

Counting visits

Only after you accept, Carrywatch counts the pages you view with its own analytics. Nothing is sent to any other company, and no third-party script loads. For each page view we keep the page address without its query, the site that linked to it (its name only), any campaign tags in the link, whether you are on a phone, tablet or computer, and your country as reported by our hosting provider. On the pricing page we also count the steps of buying Pro: viewing prices, picking a plan, starting checkout and returning from payment, with the plan chosen but nothing about you or your payment.

We do not store your IP address. To count how many people visit each day, we keep a one-way code made from the date, your network address and browser type with a secret key. It changes every day, so it cannot be used to recognise you from one day to the next. Page view records are deleted after 13 months. Analytics sets no cookie of its own; cw_consent above is what records your choice.

Local storage

Some pages also keep a few things in your browser's local storage, which is not a cookie. They stay on your device, are never sent to us, and are removed when you clear site data:

• carrywatch:explored-firms: keeps the company pages you opened from the Deal Web, so they can be marked as explored.
• carrywatch:connection:: keeps your answer to that day's Connection puzzle.
• cw-watchlist-seen: keeps when you last opened your watchlists page, so deals added since then are marked new.
• carrywatch:ticker-paused: keeps that you paused the latest-deals ticker, so it stays paused on your next visit.
• carrywatch:screens:: keeps the Screener screens you saved, until they can be kept on your account.
• carrywatch:recent:: keeps the last record pages you opened in the app, for your Recently viewed list, per account in this browser.
• carrywatch:app-theme: keeps the theme you chose for the app and the data pages (light or dark), so it shows before the page draws (signed in, the choice is also saved on your account, with what your device asks for, so it follows you).

Other sites

If you buy Carrywatch Pro, you pay on Stripe's checkout page, and Stripe may set its own cookies there under its own policy.

If you follow a link to X or LinkedIn, or sign in with one of them, that site may set its own cookies under its own policy.

Questions about cookies: see the privacy policy for how to contact us.