Last updated: 5/24/2026
1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Brandfluence platform or a third-party to recognize you, authenticate your sessions, and load your custom dashboard variables.
2. How We Use Cookies
When you use and access the Brandfluence platform, we place temporary and permanent cookie files in your browser. Our primary uses include:
- Authentication (JWT): Vital session cookies to keep your Brand or Influencer profile logged securely into the platform without continuous prompt-loops.
- Third-Party Integrations: Specifically concerning OAuth linkages for Google, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok integration which utilize localized state cookies to pass tokens safely.
- Financial Ledgers: Using Stripe.js elements which independently manage anti-fraud tracking and localized cookie tokens during the deposit and payout stages.
3. Third-party Cookies
Brandfluence heavily utilizes third-party infrastructures to power our application. By using our platform, you acknowledge the usage of analytical and functional cookies from:
- Stripe / Stripe Connect: For enforcing KYC protocols, fraud prevention, and session validation during checkout and payout portals.
- Cloudinary: Content delivery frameworks which optimize and deliver the thumbnail, video, and creative asset pipelines globally.
- Social Authentication: Tracking nodes verifying the synchronization of engagement statistics (like aggregated views/likes) back to the Brandfluence internal metrics network.
4. Your Choices Regarding Cookies
Because our dual-sided platform structurally relies on secure JWT authentication and Stripe anti-fraud sessions, completely rejecting functional cookies will permanently break the platform's core dashboard behaviors (including campaign creation and fund withdrawal). If you wish to delete your cookies, you may do so through your browser, which will effectively safely sign you out of our systems.