Cookies Policy

The short version: SignalBots uses essential cookies to keep you signed in and to protect against cross-site attacks. We also use a small number of non-essential cookies for analytics and product improvement, but only after you accept them. You can review or revoke your consent at any time from the dashboard's privacy settings.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your browser when you visit it. They allow the site to remember preferences, keep you signed in across requests, and recognize you on a return visit. Cookies cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your device, but they can carry identifiers that, combined with other data, allow a site or a service provider to recognize a user.

This policy uses the word "cookies" as a shorthand for cookies and other similar storage technologies (local storage, session storage, IndexedDB, and SDK identifiers in our mobile apps). The same principles apply to all of them.

2. Why SignalBots Uses Cookies

We rely on cookies for three legitimate purposes:

To keep the Services running. Keep you signed in to the dashboard, protect form submissions, and remember your theme and language preferences.
To measure Service health, particularly the signal-delivery latency that our entire product depends on. Without these measurements we cannot detect a slow webhook or a stalled Telegram delivery.
To understand product usage in aggregate, which signal types are used most, which dashboard pages traders return to, which articles drive the most engagement. We do not use this data to build advertising profiles.

3. Categories of Cookies We Use

We classify our cookies into three categories. Only the first is always on; the other two require your consent.

Strictly necessary cookies (always on)

Required for the Services to work. They cannot be turned off through our consent banner. They do not store personally identifiable information beyond what is required to identify your session. Examples: your signed-in session, CSRF protection, your saved theme.

Analytics & performance cookies (consent required)

Help us understand how visitors use the Services, which pages perform well, and where users encounter friction. Data is aggregated and anonymized where possible.

Functional & preference cookies (consent required)

Remember choices you make (such as your dashboard layout, your watchlists, your preferred market focus, and onboarding progress) so we do not ask you the same question twice.

We do not use advertising or retargeting cookies. We do not sell cookie data to third parties.

4. First-Party Cookies (the `sb_` prefix)

All cookies that we set ourselves use the sb_ prefix so you can easily recognize them in your browser's developer tools. The most important ones are:

sb_session: keeps you signed in to the web dashboard. Essential, set on login, cleared on logout.
csrftoken: protects form submissions and AJAX requests against cross-site request forgery. Essential, required by the Django framework.
sb_theme: remembers whether you chose the light or dark theme. Functional, set when you toggle the theme.
sb_signed_in: records only that you are signed in, so the page can show your Dashboard link instead of the sign-up one. It holds no name, no identifier and no session data, just yes or no. Functional, set on login, cleared on logout.
sb_consent: records your cookie-consent choices so we do not ask you again on every page. Essential to the operation of the consent banner itself.
sb_analytics_*: analytics counters for product improvement. Only set after consent.

5. Third-Party Cookies

Some functionality on the Services is provided by external services that may set their own cookies under their own domains:

Authentication providers: Google (when you choose "Sign in with Google") may set cookies on its own domain to complete the OAuth handshake.
Payment processors: when you subscribe to a paid plan, the payment processor may set cookies on its own domain to keep your checkout session secure.
Embedded content: when we embed a TradingView chart, a Telegram preview, or a YouTube video, the embedding provider may set its own cookies. We embed only the content that adds value to our pages, but we cannot control the cookies set by those providers.

Each of these third parties has its own cookie and privacy policy, which we encourage you to read directly on their site.

6. Local Storage & Similar Technologies

In addition to cookies, the SignalBots web dashboard uses your browser's localStorage and sessionStorage for client-side state, for example, to remember an unsent draft, to cache the last set of signals you viewed for offline reading, and to store your in-product onboarding progress. This data lives only in your browser and is never transmitted to our servers unless explicitly required by a feature you triggered.

7. Mobile Apps & Browser Extensions

The SignalBots mobile apps (iOS, Android) and the browser extensions (Pocket Option, Quotex, Olymp Trade, and others) do not use traditional cookies, but they use functionally equivalent storage:

Mobile apps: store your session token, your push-notification token, and your in-app preferences in the platform's secure storage. You can clear all of it by signing out or by uninstalling the app.
Browser extensions: store your extension settings, the broker you connected, and your signal preferences in the extension's own storage. You can clear all of it from the extension's settings panel, or by removing the extension.

The first time you visit the SignalBots website, a consent banner asks whether you accept non-essential cookies. Your choice is stored in the sb_consent cookie and respected on every subsequent visit. You can revisit your choice at any time from the "Privacy & Cookies" section of your dashboard or from the link in the website footer. Withdrawing consent does not affect any processing that occurred before you withdrew it.

9. Managing Cookies in Your Browser

Independently of our consent banner, every modern browser lets you review, restrict, and delete cookies directly. Common controls:

Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies (or Cookies and other site data).
Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data.
Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data.
Apple Safari (desktop): Settings → Privacy → Manage Website Data.
Apple Safari (iOS): Settings app → Safari → Advanced → Website Data.

Blocking essential cookies will sign you out of the dashboard and may break parts of the site. Blocking non-essential cookies will not affect signal delivery or trade execution.

10. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers can send a "Do Not Track" (DNT) header with every request. Industry consensus on how to interpret DNT is still incomplete; for now, SignalBots treats DNT as equivalent to declining non-essential cookies, alongside whatever choice you made in our consent banner.

11. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time. Material changes (such as adding a new analytics provider or a new category of cookie) will be reflected in the "Effective Date" at the top of this page and, where applicable, surfaced again in the consent banner so you can renew your choice.

12. Contact

Questions about cookies on SignalBots? Please use our contact page, and mention "cookies" in the subject so we can route the request correctly.