Cookies Policy

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They allow the site to remember information about your visit — for example, whether you've dismissed a banner, or which theme you've chosen. They don't, on their own, identify you personally.

Similar technologies include local storage and session storage, which work in the same way but live in your browser rather than being sent back to a server. Where this policy says "cookies", it includes those technologies too.

The Verge website uses a small set of cookies, grouped by purpose:

• Strictly necessary. These keep the site working — for example, remembering your cookie consent choice so the banner doesn't reappear on every page load. We rely on legitimate interest as the legal basis for these; you can't reject them without breaking the site.
• Functional. These remember preferences you've chosen, like which mockup you've expanded or whether you've dismissed an upgrade prompt. Stored locally on your device.
• Security / anti-abuse. Cloudflare Turnstile (our captcha) sets a short-lived cookie to verify you're not a bot when you submit the beta signup form. This expires shortly after submission.

We do not currently use cookies for: advertising, cross-site tracking, behavioural profiling, or selling data to third parties. If that ever changes, we will update this policy and ask for your fresh consent through the banner.

You have three independent controls:

1. Our consent banner. The banner that appears on your first visit lets you accept or decline non-essential cookies. You can change your choice any time by clearing your browser's site data for verge.calmhqstudio.com.
2. Your browser. Every major browser lets you block cookies, see which ones are set, and delete them. Search your browser's help for "cookies." Be aware that blocking strictly necessary cookies will break the site.
3. Do Not Track. We respect the Do Not Track browser signal where supported and don't use behavioural cookies for any visitor regardless.

Verge integrates a small number of third-party services. Each may set its own cookies under its own privacy policy:

• Cloudflare Turnstile — for captcha on the beta signup form. Cloudflare cookie policy.
• Firebase (Google) — for authentication and secure storage of beta signups. Firebase may set session management cookies. Google privacy policy.
• Vercel — the platform that hosts the site. May set performance/cache cookies. Vercel privacy policy.

These third parties act as data processors under our instructions for the limited purposes above. We do not share your data with them for their own marketing.

We'll update this policy if our cookie use changes (for example, if we add analytics or comments). Updates are stamped at the top of this page. Material changes will trigger a fresh consent prompt.

Questions about cookies on Verge? Email hello@calmhqstudio.com.