Cookie Policy | Morcel

01What cookies are

Cookies are small text files a website stores on your device. They let a site remember things between page loads — that you are signed in, or that you have already seen a notice. We also use similar technologies such as local storage, pixels and SDK-free measurement scripts; where this policy says "cookies", it means all of them.

First-party cookies are set by Morcel. Third-party cookies are set by another company whose script runs on our page, such as Google or Meta.

02How we use cookies

On www.morcel.app and in the Morcel app we use cookies to:

Keep you signed in and protect your session against forgery and abuse.
Measure how many people visit, which pages they read, and where they came from — in aggregate, not to build a profile of you.
Measure whether our ads work, so we do not keep paying for ones that do not.

We do not use cookies to read files on your device, and we do not use them to sell personal information.

03Cookie categories

Category	What it does	Can you refuse it?
Strictly necessary	Authentication, session security, load balancing, and remembering your cookie choices. Without these the site cannot work.	No — but they are never used for tracking
Analytics	Aggregated measurement of traffic, engagement and page performance.	Yes
Marketing	Attribution and conversion measurement for our advertising campaigns.	Yes

04The cookies we set

Cookie	Set by	Category	Purpose	Expiry
`_ga`	Google Analytics	Analytics	Distinguishes one browser from another so visits can be counted	2 years
`_ga_G-VZ2G8YGGE7`	Google Analytics	Analytics	Holds the session state for our GA4 property	2 years
`_gid`	Google Analytics	Analytics	Distinguishes browsers for short-term reporting	24 hours
`_gcl_au`	Google	Marketing	Links ad clicks to conversions on our site	90 days
`_fbp`	Meta	Marketing	Identifies a browser for ad delivery and conversion measurement	90 days
Session cookie	Morcel	Strictly necessary	Keeps you signed in to the Morcel app	Until you sign out or the session expires

Cookie names and lifetimes are set by their providers and can change without notice on their side. Vercel Analytics, which measures page performance for us, is cookie-less — it stores nothing on your device.

Guests who scan a restaurant's QR menu are not required to accept any non-essential cookies to view the menu.

05How to control cookies

You have several independent controls, and you can use any combination of them:

Your browser — every major browser lets you block or delete cookies, block third-party cookies specifically, or clear them on exit. See the help pages for Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Edge. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will break sign-in.
Google Analytics — install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to stop GA measurement across every site.
Meta — adjust what Meta does with off-platform activity in your Meta ad preferences.
Industry opt-outs — Your Online Choices (EU) and the DAA WebChoices tool (US) cover many advertising vendors at once.
Global Privacy Control — we honour the GPC signal where your browser or extension sends it. Browser "Do Not Track" headers have no agreed standard, so we do not rely on them.

Blocking analytics and marketing cookies does not reduce the functionality of your menus — it only reduces what we can measure.

06Third-party policies

The third parties above process the data their cookies collect under their own terms:

07Changes to this policy

We update this policy whenever we add or remove a cookie or a measurement tool. The "last updated" date at the top of the page reflects the current version, and the table in section 04 is the authoritative list.

08Contact us

Questions about cookies, or a cookie you spotted that is not listed here: admin@commissary.app. Related reading: our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Questions?

Email us at admin@commissary.app and we'll get back to you.