Cookie Policy
Last updated: November 10, 2026Version 1.1
The short version
- We use a few cookies to keep you logged in.
- Stripe sets two more when you pay. They stop fraud.
- We have no ad cookies. We do not track you on other sites.
- We count page views with our own tool, not with cookies.
- You can see every cookie in the table below.
- Tap Cookie choices at the bottom of this page to see yours.
1. What cookies and local storage are
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves in your browser and gets back each time you return. Local storage is a similar place in your browser where a site can keep small pieces of data; unlike a cookie, it is not sent to the server by itself.
This policy covers both. It belongs to our Privacy Policy.
2. What we set
| Name | Type | What it is for | How long it stays | Essential? | Set by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| better-auth.session_token | Cookie | Keeps you logged in. | 30 days, renewed while you keep using VodChamp | Yes | VodChamp sign-in (Better Auth) |
| better-auth.session_data | Cookie | A short-lived signed copy of your login, so pages load without asking the database each time. | 5 minutes | Yes | VodChamp sign-in (Better Auth) |
| better-auth.state | Cookie | Protects the login when you sign in with Google, Twitch, Kick or Discord, so nobody can hijack it. | 5 minutes | Yes | VodChamp sign-in (Better Auth) |
| vc_ws | Cookie | Remembers which team you are working in after you join one by invite. | 1 year | Yes | VodChamp |
| vc_oauth | Cookie | Protects the step where you connect a Twitch, Kick or YouTube channel. Removed as soon as you come back. | 10 minutes | Yes | VodChamp |
| vc_did | Cookie | Set right before you sign in, so one device gets one free trial. It stops trial abuse. | 1 hour | Yes | VodChamp |
| vc_link | Cookie | Holds the stream link you pasted into "Get clips" while you sign in, so your clips can start right after. Removed once they start. | 1 hour | Yes | VodChamp |
| vc_admin | Cookie | Only for VodChamp staff: shows that the second sign-in step was passed. | 12 hours | Yes | VodChamp |
| vc_consent | Cookie | Remembers your cookie choices, so we do not ask again. | 12 months | Yes | VodChamp |
| __stripe_mid | Cookie | Set by Stripe when you open the pay screen. A random ID for your browser that helps Stripe tell real buyers from payment fraud. | 1 year | Yes | Stripe, our payment company |
| __stripe_sid | Cookie | Set by Stripe when you open the pay screen. A random ID for your visit that helps Stripe tell real buyers from payment fraud. | 30 minutes | Yes | Stripe, our payment company |
| vc_anon | Local storage | A random ID for our own page-view counts. It is not shared with anyone and does not follow you to other sites. Off until you say yes if you visit from Europe, and always off under Global Privacy Control. | Until you clear your browser storage | No | VodChamp |
| vc_first_touch | Local storage | Remembers how you first found us (the link you came from and its campaign tags), for our own counts. Off until you say yes if you visit from Europe, and always off under Global Privacy Control. | Until you clear your browser storage | No | VodChamp |
On a secure (https) connection, the sign-in cookies carry the prefix “__Secure-” in front of the names above. They are the same cookies.
“Essential” means the product cannot sign you in, keep your account safe, take a payment safely or remember your choice without it. The two local storage keys are not essential: they feed our own usage counts, described in section 4.
The pay screen. The two cookies whose names start with “__stripe” are set by Stripe, the company that takes our payments, and only when you open the pay screen. That screen is the only page of VodChamp that runs a script from Stripe: it shows the Apple Pay, Google Pay and Link buttons and the card form. Stripe uses the two cookies to tell real buyers from payment fraud. They are not used for advertising. Inside its own payment frame on that screen, Stripe may also set cookies of its own, under its own cookie policy.
3. What we do not use
- No advertising cookies and no advertising pixels.
- No trackers that follow you across other websites.
- No analytics from other companies. Our usage counts are our own.
Payments. Only the pay screen runs a Stripe script, as described in section 2. No other page of VodChamp loads a Stripe script, so Stripe sets no cookies anywhere else on VodChamp. When you pay on Stripe’s own checkout page or open the billing portal, your browser leaves our site and goes to a page on Stripe’s own website. On its own pages Stripe uses cookies under its own cookie policy, mainly to process the payment and prevent fraud.
Sign-in and channels. When you sign in with Google, Twitch, Kick or Discord, or connect a channel, you visit that company’s own site for a moment. It may set its own cookies there, under its own policy.
4. Our own usage counts
We count which pages and features are used so we can improve VodChamp. This is first-party: the data goes only to us. It uses no cookie. Where it is allowed (see “Your choices” below), it keeps a random ID and a note of how you first found us in your browser’s local storage, as listed in the table. The ID is not shared with anyone and is not used on any other site. When it is not allowed, nothing is kept in your browser: a visit is counted with a throwaway ID that is gone when you close the page.
You can clear these at any time by clearing the site data for vodchamp.gg in your browser. A new random ID is made on your next visit.
5. Saved app files
The phone chat view can save its own app files, such as scripts, fonts and icons, in your browser’s cache so that it opens quickly on a weak connection. These files hold no personal data and no chat messages.
6. Your choices
- Cookie choices: the “Cookie choices” link at the bottom of the page shows what is on and stores your choice.
- Optional cookies and storage keys stay off until you say yes if you visit from the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, and we ask you first. Elsewhere, the two storage keys of our own usage counts are on until you switch them off in “Cookie choices”.
- Global Privacy Control: if your browser sends the Global Privacy Control signal, optional cookies, storage keys and tags stay off without asking, wherever you are.
- Your browser: you can block or delete cookies and site data in your browser settings. If you block the essential cookies, you cannot stay signed in.
7. Changes and contact
When we add, change or remove a cookie, the table above changes with it, and we update the version and date at the top of this page. Questions go to privacy@vodchamp.gg.