COOKIE POLICY
Last updated August 28, 2026This Cookie Policy explains how InterviewBoom uses cookies and browser storage on interviewboom.com, which technologies are necessary, which are optional, and how you can change your choices.
1. What are cookies and browser storage?
Cookies are small text files saved by a website in your browser. Local storage and session storage are similar browser technologies that save data on your device. In this Policy, “cookies” includes these similar technologies unless we distinguish between them.
2. Categories and your choices
We separate technologies into the following categories:
Necessary technologies
These are required to provide the Website and features you request, including authentication, language selection, navigation, test sessions, security, and recording your consent choice. They are always active because the Website cannot reliably provide those functions without them.
Analytics and diagnostics
These help us find errors, measure performance, and understand technical interactions with the Website. Optional browser diagnostics remain off until you explicitly enable them. Rejecting them does not prevent you from using the core Website.
3. First-party cookies we use
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
interviewboom_cookie_consent | Records your optional analytics and diagnostics choice, including a refusal. Necessary. | 180 days |
NEXT_LOCALE | Remembers your selected Website language. Necessary/preference. | 1 year |
prevUrls | Remembers recent navigation so we can return you to the appropriate page after authentication. Necessary. | Browser session |
auth | Maintains authentication and account session state. Necessary. | Browser session |
redirectUrl | Remembers where to return you after sign-in. Necessary. | Up to 3 hours |
google_registration_legal_acceptance | Securely carries registration locale and legal-acceptance state through Google OAuth. Necessary and HttpOnly. | Up to 10 minutes |
4. Browser storage we use
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
guest_answers_<sessionId> | Temporarily preserves a guest’s test answers in local storage so test progress is not lost. Necessary. | Until the test is completed, the data is cleared, or browser storage is cleared |
liveTestButtonClick | Maintains continuity for a recent live-test interface action in session storage. Necessary. | Browser session, with a maximum logical age of 24 hours |
sentryReplaySession | Maintains an optional Sentry replay session for diagnostics. Analytics and diagnostics. | Browser session; used only after consent |
5. Sentry diagnostics and session replay
If you enable analytics and diagnostics, our browser application may send error reports, performance measurements, technical device/browser data, IP/network data received by the provider, and a sampled replay of technical interactions to Sentry. We configure replay to mask all text and form inputs and to block media.
Separately, our servers may process error, security, and reliability logs required to operate and protect the service. This server-side processing does not depend on optional browser storage and is handled under the lawful basis described in our Privacy Policy.
6. Advertising and other technologies
We do not currently use advertising cookies, Adobe Analytics, Flash cookies, or cookies for targeted advertising on the Website. We do not sell personal data through cookies. If this changes, we will update this Policy and request consent where required before activating such technologies.
7. How to manage or withdraw consent
You can accept all optional technologies, reject them, or make a category choice in the consent banner. You can reopen the same settings at any time using the button below. A changed choice applies to future browser processing. When analytics is disabled, the active browser monitoring and replay session is stopped.
Clearing cookies removes the saved choice, so we will ask again on a future visit. Necessary technologies cannot be disabled in our preference panel because they provide functions you request; you can block them in your browser, but parts of the Website may stop working.
8. Browser controls and privacy signals
Most browsers let you inspect, block, or delete cookies and browser storage. Instructions differ by browser and are available in its privacy or help settings. Because “Do Not Track” is not a universally standardized consent signal, use our cookie settings to control optional diagnostics.
9. Changes to this Policy
We may update this Policy when our technologies, providers, legal requirements, or practices change. The date above identifies the latest version. If a change requires a new consent choice, we will ask you again.
10. Contact us
For questions about cookies or privacy, contact support@interviewboom.com.
For more information about how we process personal data, read our Privacy Policy.