Cookie Notice
Last updated: 24 June 2026
Cookies are small text files that may be placed on your device when you interact with online services. They help a service remember information about your visit and interactions. This notice explains the cookies and similar technologies (such as local storage, pixels, and web beacons) that Hirebase uses, why we use them, and how you can manage them. We use the word “cookies” to refer to cookies and these similar technologies.
Hirebase cares about your privacy and about being transparent. We keep our use of cookies to a minimum: a small number of first-party cookies that are needed to sign you in and run the product, plus a limited set of third-party cookies for analytics, payments, and security.
How we use cookies
We group the cookies we use into the following categories:
- Strictly necessary: required for the platform to function and to keep you signed in. These cannot be switched off without breaking the service.
- Functional: remember choices you make (for example, referral attribution) to improve your experience.
- Analytics: help us understand how the product is used so we can improve it, including session replay with content masking.
- Payments: support secure checkout and fraud prevention.
- Security: protect the platform from abuse.
We also use your browser’s local storage for some settings and product state; that information stays in your browser and is not, by itself, a cookie.
First-party cookies (set by Hirebase)
These are set directly by Hirebase to operate the service.
| Cookie | Purpose | Category | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
better-auth.session_token (and the __Secure- variant) | Keeps you signed in. Required to use Hirebase as a registered user. | Strictly necessary | ~30 days if you choose “keep me signed in”, otherwise until you close your browser |
better-auth.session_data (and the __Secure- variant) | Caches session details to reduce repeated look-ups. | Strictly necessary | ~5 minutes, then refreshed from the session above |
better-auth.dont_remember | Remembers whether you chose “keep me signed in”. | Strictly necessary | Session (until you close your browser) |
better-auth.two_factor | Carries the two-factor authentication challenge during sign-in. | Strictly necessary | Short-lived (~10 minutes, during sign-in) |
hb_referral, and hb_referral_clicked_at | Attributes a sign-up to a referral link you clicked. | Functional | 30 days |
hb_attr | Remembers the referral link or campaign (UTM parameters) that brought you to our marketing site, so a later sign-up can be credited to the right source. | Functional | 90 days |
Third-party cookies and similar technologies
Third-party cookies are set by other companies whose technology we use within Hirebase. These include:
| Provider | Purpose | Category | Typical cookies & duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| PostHog | Product analytics and session replay. Helps us understand how Hirebase is used (pages viewed, clicks, scrolling, navigation) and records replays of sessions to diagnose issues. Text content is masked by default. PostHog uses both cookies and local storage. | Analytics | Up to ~12 months |
| Stripe | Processes payments and helps prevent fraud during billing and checkout. | Payments | __stripe_mid (~1 year), __stripe_sid (~30 minutes), plus cookies set on checkout.stripe.com during checkout |
| Cloudflare | Protects our infrastructure from bots and abuse. | Security | ~30 minutes |
| Google Analytics 4 & Google Tag Manager | Measures how visitors find and use our marketing site (pages viewed, sessions, traffic sources) so we can improve it. Tag Manager loads and manages our analytics and marketing tags. | Analytics | _ga (2 years), _ga_<container> (2 years), _gid (24 hours), _gat (~1 minute) |
For more detail on these providers’ own use of cookies, see their respective privacy and cookie policies: PostHog, Stripe, Cloudflare, and Google.
Managing cookies
Most web browsers let you view, delete, and block cookies. Please note that if you disable the strictly necessary cookies listed above, you will not be able to sign in to or use Hirebase as a registered user.
These guides explain how to manage cookies in common browsers:
Changes to this notice
We may update this notice from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. The “Last updated” date at the top shows when it was most recently revised.
More information
For general information about cookies, including how to see which cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org.
If you have any questions about this notice or our use of cookies, contact us at admin@basedai.co.