Cookie Policy

Last updated: November 2, 2026

This policy covers ventureease.org only. Each VentureEase product (StartEase, LaunchEase, HireEase) has its own cookie and privacy policy governing data within that app. See also our Privacy Policy and Terms.

1. What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file a site stores in your browser. We use as few as possible, and the cookies we set are all first-party (set by ventureease.org itself). We do not use third-party advertising, tracking, or social-media cookies. One third-party security service — Cloudflare Turnstile — runs on our form pages; see section 3.

2. The two categories we model

• Essential — always on. Required for the site to work, so there is no toggle and no consent is needed. Turning these off would break sign-in.
• Analytics — off by default; loads only if you opt in. We run our own first-party analytics to understand how the site is used — page views and basic interactions — and it runs only after you allow it. It is never sold and never shared with third-party trackers, and there is no Google Analytics or other third-party tag.

3. The cookies we actually set

• VORG_SESSID (Essential) — keeps you signed in. Set with HttpOnly, Secure, and SameSite=Lax; a session cookie with a 24-minute idle timeout.
• cookie_consent (Essential) — remembers your cookie choice so we don't ask again. Readable by the page so the banner reflects your choice; kept for 1 year.
• VORG_AH (Analytics — optional) — set only after you opt in to analytics. A random first-party identifier that lets us count visits and measure how the site is used, without identifying you personally. Set with HttpOnly, Secure, and SameSite=Lax; kept for 180 days. If you don't opt in, it is never set.

Those are the only cookies we set — no advertising, cross-site, or third-party analytics cookies; our analytics is first-party and optional, and cross-site request forgery is prevented by checking the request origin, not by a cookie. One third-party service does run on the site: Cloudflare Turnstile, a bot-protection widget loaded on our form pages (from challenges.cloudflare.com) to stop spam and automated abuse. When it loads, Cloudflare receives your IP address and basic request information and may set its own cookies (under the cloudflare.com domain, not ours) to tell humans from bots; we receive only a pass/fail result. It is a security service — not advertising or analytics — governed by Cloudflare's privacy policy. There is no Google Analytics or advertising tag on this site.

4. Changing your choice

Use the Cookie preferences link in the site footer at any time to reopen the banner and change what you allow. You can also clear cookies for this site in your browser settings; the banner will then ask again on your next visit.

5. Do Not Track

Our analytics is off until you opt in, so if you never allow Analytics the VORG_AH cookie is never set and no usage is recorded. We treat the Analytics toggle above as your tracking control; we do not separately act on a browser's Do-Not-Track header. Use the toggle to turn analytics off at any time.

6. Changes to this policy

If we update this policy, we'll change the "Last updated" date at the top. Any non-essential cookie or script requires your consent before it runs.

7. Contact

Questions about cookies or privacy: info@ventureease.org.