Cookie Policy

Last updated: Nov 20, 2025


1.What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They allow the site to recognize your device, store certain information, and improve functionality and user experience.

We also use related technologies such as pixels, tags, and local storage. Together, we refer to these collectively as "cookies."

2.How Social Contract Uses Cookies

We use cookies for various purposes to enhance your experience. These include ensuring the website functions correctly, tracking performance, feature voting, and measuring referral sources.
  • Ensure the Website functions correctly
  • Improve your browsing and overall experience
  • Understand how visitors engage with sections like Features, How It Works, Upcoming Features, Events, Guidelines, Support, and FAQs
  • Measure which features users are most interested in (including feature voting)
  • Track referral sources (e.g., social media, ads, search engines, friend recommendations)
  • Support our marketing and community growth
  • Help diagnose errors or performance issues
  • We do not sell your personal data.

By analyzing these patterns, we can focus our engineering efforts on features you love and improve the overall website design and user experience.

3.Types of Cookies We Use

The website utilizes strictly necessary, performance/analytics, marketing/tracking, functionality, and advertising cookies to support different features of our platform.

3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the Website to function and cannot be switched off. They support core functions such as:

  • Navigation across sections (Home, Features, Guidelines, Support)
  • Form submissions (Contact Us, Support, Join Community, Event Signup)
  • Maintaining cookie preferences
  • Basic security such as session integrity
  • Without these cookies, some parts of the Website may not work properly.
  • Examples:
    • sc_session - Maintains session state
    • cookie_consent - Remembers your cookie preferences

3.2 Performance & Analytics Cookies

(Require consent in the UK and EU)

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use the Website. These cookies allow us to measure:

  • Visitor behaviour (e.g., time spent on Features, How It Works, Events, etc.)
  • Which features are most viewed
  • Interest in upcoming features
  • Engagement with CTAs (Join Now, Vote, Add to Calendar)
  • Referral source performance
  • Google Analytics may collect anonymized information such as:
  • IP address (masked)
  • Device type
  • Pages visited
  • Clicks and scroll behaviour

3.3 Marketing & Tracking Cookies

(Require consent in the UK and EU)

We use Meta Pixel to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and understand how users discovered Social Contract. These cookies allow us to:

  • Track whether a user arrived from a Meta (Facebook/Instagram) advertisement
  • Measure campaign performance
  • Build aggregate insights on user engagement with events, features, or CTAs
  • Meta Pixel may collect anonymized information such as:
  • IP address (masked)
  • Improve marketing relevance
  • Meta may process data according to its own policies, and only with your consent.
  • Meta Pixel events such as PageView, ViewContent

3.3 Functionality Cookies

These cookies support enhanced functionality, such as:

  • Remembering content you interacted with
  • Displaying "voted" states for upcoming features
  • Maintaining UI settings or user-friendly preferences for browsing
  • Supporting add-to-calendar options for events
  • If you block these cookies, some features may not behave as expected.
  • Examples:
    • sc_vote_state_*
    • sc_event_pref_*

3.4 Advertising Cookies

Some cookies come from external providers such as:

  • Google Analytics
  • Meta Pixel
  • Email delivery or communication services (if used)
  • Embedded content, if any (e.g., videos, maps)

These providers may process information in accordance with their own policies. We ensure appropriate agreements and safeguards are in place where required.

4.Safety

We use cookies to help protect your account and detect fraudulent or abusive activity. The table below lists the safety-related and analytical cookies that may be used.

The exact cookies may change as we update the Website; we will update this Policy accordingly.

Cookie NamePurposeTypeProvider
sc_sessionSession managementStrictly necessarySocial Contract
cookie_consentStores cookie preferencesStrictly necessarySocial Contract
_gaVisitor analytics (anonymous)Performance/AnalyticsGoogle Analytics
_fbpVisitor analytics (anonymous)MarketingMeta Pixel
sc_vote_state_*Indicates features the user has voted onFunctionalSocial Contract
sc_event_*Tracks event signup interactionsFunctionalSocial Contract

5.How You Can Control Cookies

You have control over cookies. The following options are available:

5.1 Cookie Banner / Preferences Centre

Upon your first visit, you will see a banner where you can:

  • Accept all cookies
  • Reject non-essential cookies
  • Manage detailed preferences
  • You can change your preferences anytime through the Cookie Settings link in the footer.

5.2 Browser Controls

YYou can block or delete cookies through your browser settings. However, blocking essential cookies may affect the Website’s functionality

5.3 Third-Party Tools

You can block or delete cookies through your browser settings. However, blocking essential cookies may affect the Website's functionality

6.Do Not Track (DNT)

Our website does not currently respond to DNT signals due to a lack of an industry standard. We will review this periodically.

7.Cookies and Personal Data

Some cookies may collect information considered personal data (e.g. IP addresses, device IDs, engagement metrics).
Where this occurs, we use it only as described, respect all GDPR/UK GDPR rights, and protect your privacy. For more details, see our Privacy Policy.

8.Updates to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Policy to reflect changes in how we use cookies, new features, or legal regulations.

Significant updates will be communicated via the Website or email where appropriate. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

9.Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, you can reach our privacy team directly.

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