Cookies and tracking
Version 2026-10-21 · Effective 21 October 2026
This notice covers what the Set The Bar app and website store on your device, and the tracking they don't do. It's required by the ePrivacy Regulations (S.I. No. 336 of 2011), alongside our Privacy Policy.
The app: no tracking, no advertising
The app doesn't track you across other apps or websites, doesn't use advertising identifiers, and contains no advertising. That's why it never shows Apple's "Allow tracking?" prompt.
What the app stores on your phone
These are strictly necessary for the app to work, so they don't need your consent:
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your sign-in session, in the iOS Keychain | Keeps you signed in | Until you sign out |
| A copy of the spots you've looked at, and Your spots | So the map works with a poor connection at the park | Refreshed as you use the app; your own parts are removed when you sign out |
| Sets waiting for a connection (the result only, never the video), and a copy of your History | So a set logged without signal isn't lost, and History opens offline | A waiting set: until it's saved, or 30 days. The copy: refreshed as you use the app, and removed when you sign out |
| Which camera you last used, front or back | So the next set starts on it | Until you delete the app |
| A note that the age check was failed, with the time it expires | Stops the age check being retried straight away | 24 hours (no date of birth is stored) |
Optional, and off unless you switch them on
| What | Provider | Switch |
|---|---|---|
| Product analytics | PostHog (EU) | You → Settings and privacy → Data and consents → Product analytics |
| Crash reports with your account identifier | Sentry (EU) | You → Settings and privacy → Data and consents → Crash reports |
Neither is in the app yet. When they are, each stays off until you switch it on, and its software isn't even started before then. You can switch either off again at any time.
The website
The website (yousetthebar.com) uses no analytics, and its fonts and videos come from the site itself, so nothing is fetched from anyone else unless you accept the cookie below. One cookie is optional, and stays off unless you accept it in the website's cookie banner:
| What | Provider | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
The Meta Pixel: the _fbp cookie, and Meta's own cookies if you use Facebook or Instagram | Meta Platforms Ireland | To see which of our ads on Facebook and Instagram bring people to the website, and whether they join the waitlist | _fbp: 90 days. Meta's own: see Meta's cookie policy |
The banner appears only while we're running ads. If you accept, your browser tells Meta that you visited the page and, if you join the waitlist, that someone did. It never sends your email address. Meta can link this to a Facebook or Instagram account you're signed in to. For collecting and sending it, Meta and we are joint controllers; what Meta does with it afterwards is covered by Meta's privacy policy.
You can change your mind at any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of the website. The website remembers your choice in your browser's storage (not a cookie), so it doesn't ask again; that's strictly necessary, so it needs no consent.
Our website is hosted by Google (Firebase Hosting), which receives your IP address with every page you load, as any web host does.
If you join the waitlist, your email address is stored as described in the waitlist privacy notice.