Cookie Policy

This Policy describes how the Tuqo service (https://tuqo.ru) uses cookies and similar technologies (including the browser's localStorage and sessionStorage).

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files that a website stores in the browser and uses to recognize the device, save settings and collect statistics. The localStorage and sessionStorage stores are treated as equivalent to them.

2. Types of cookies used

• Necessary: required for the Service to work (authentication, security, keeping the session); always applied.
• Functional: remember settings (the color theme, etc.); improve convenience.
• Partner attribution: the partner code from a partner link, so the sign-up is credited to that partner; contains no information about the visitor.
• Analytics: visit statistics and session recording (Yandex Metrica); applied only after consent.
• Marketing: not used; no advertising, retargeting or profiling is carried out with cookies.

This Policy applies to the Service's own websites (https://tuqo.ru and its subdomains). The Operator does not set cookies or add code to pages for analytics on sites hosted by Users. In the basic mode, traffic statistics for such sites are counted by the serving server. The User enables the extended mode, which places code, themselves, and in that case the User bears the obligations towards the visitors of their site (Terms of Service, clause 17.2). The service badge of the free plan does not use cookies either.

The only exception is the service cookie for gated access. It appears only if the User has restricted access to their site themselves (with a password, an email code, a channel subscription, member sign-up, sign-in with MAX or paid access): the visitor signs in on the login screen, and the Service stores a signed pass in their browser so that access does not have to be checked again on every page. This is a technical necessity of the feature itself, not analytics: the pass contains no information about the visitor, is not used for profiling, and is limited to the domain of a single site and to the access period. Open sites have no such cookie.

3. List of cookies

Necessary:

• __Host-tuqo_session: an httpOnly authentication cookie for the control panel (JWT), HTTPS only and only on the Service's API address, valid for 7 days;
• tuqo_analytics_consent: the visitor's choice in the cookie banner on https://tuqo.ru: "1" means consent to analytics, "0" means declined (localStorage);
• __Host-tuqo_access: a pass to a User's site with restricted access: httpOnly, HTTPS only, only on that site's domain; valid for no longer than the access period: up to 7 days when signing in with a password or a channel subscription, up to 30 days when signing in with an email code, with member sign-up, with sign-in through MAX and with paid access. It is set after a successful sign-in (password, code, confirmed subscription or MAX sign-in, payment) and is absent on open sites.

Functional:

• tuqo-theme: the selected color theme (localStorage);
• tuqo_drafts: the list of Tuqo Drop drafts published from this browser (draft address, claim link, lifetime), so the claim link is not lost; kept in localStorage on the draft publishing page, at most 20 entries, expired drafts are removed from the list;
• tuqo_seo_checklist_v1 and tuqo_seo_address: the checklist marks and the entered site address on the “SEO for a website” page, so progress is not lost on a return visit (localStorage, only in this browser);
• tuqo_ai_site_checklist_v1: the checklist marks and the “what the site has” answers on the “How to build a website with AI” page (localStorage, only in this browser, written when an item is marked or the “what the site has” answers are changed). The prompt builder on the same page does not save what is typed.

Partner attribution:

• __Host-tuqo_ref: a partner code from a link like ?ref=… — a cookie only on the tuqo.ru address (it does not extend to subdomains or Users' sites and cannot be forged from them), plus its own copy on the dashboard address when the dashboard is opened from such a link; valid for 60 days. It lets a sign-up be credited to the partner who referred the User; set only when following a partner link. It contains only the partner code from the link — the same for everyone who followed it — and does not identify the visitor. The same code is added to the addresses of links to the control panel so that the sign-up is credited to the partner.

Analytics (Yandex Metrica), only after consent:

• _ym_uid, _ym_d, _ym_isad, _ym_visorc: web analytics identifiers and parameters, including session recording (Webvisor).

In the control panel, Yandex Metrica is enabled only with a separate optional consent to analytics, which the User gives with a checkbox at sign-up and can turn on or withdraw at any time with the “Dashboard analytics” switch in the profile (“Consent to the processing of personal data”).

4. Third-party cookies

Some cookies are set by third-party services: Yandex Metrica (analytics) and the OAuth providers (Yandex, VK) during sign-in. The Operator has no access to these cookies and does not determine their content; they are governed by the policies of the respective services.

5. Consent and control

On the first visit to https://tuqo.ru, a cookie banner with “Accept” and “Decline” buttons is shown. Analytics cookies are set only after clicking “Accept”; before a choice is made and after declining, the Yandex Metrica counter is not loaded. The choice can be changed at any time with the “Cookie settings” item in the site footer: when consent is withdrawn, the Metrica cookies are deleted. The partner attribution cookie __Host-tuqo_ref does not depend on this choice (section 3). Necessary cookies are always applied, because the Service does not work without them. The User may delete cookies and block their storage in the browser settings; disabling necessary cookies will make it impossible to sign in to the control panel and will reset saved settings. Deleting the account does not delete cookies automatically.

6. Changes to the Policy

The Operator may amend this Policy. A new version is published at https://tuqo.ru/legal/cookie with its effective date indicated.