Cookie Policy

1. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies — such as local storage, session storage, and secure authentication tokens — may also be used to remember settings or keep you signed in.

On Gignix, these technologies help the platform authenticate your account, protect your session, remember interface preferences, and — only with your permission — understand how the product is used so we can improve it.

2. Why We Use Cookies

We use cookies and similar storage for the following purposes:

• Keeping you securely signed in to your Gignix account
• Protecting the platform against abuse and unauthorized access
• Remembering preferences such as light or dark theme
• Measuring product usage and reliability when you opt in to analytics
• Supporting subscription checkout and account billing flows

We do not use cookies to sell your personal information, and we do not run third-party advertising networks across other websites based on your activity on Gignix.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Gignix groups cookies into the categories below. Optional categories are disabled until you provide consent through our cookie banner or preference center.

4. Essential Cookies

Essential cookies and session identifiers are strictly necessary for Gignix to function. They enable account login through our authentication provider (including email/password and supported OAuth sign-in options), maintain your authenticated session, enforce security controls, and route requests reliably across our infrastructure.

Because the platform cannot operate safely without these technologies, essential cookies are always active and cannot be disabled through our preference center.

5. Analytics Cookies

With your consent, Gignix may load analytics tools such as Google Analytics to collect aggregated usage information — for example, which pages are visited, how features are adopted, and whether errors occur. This helps us prioritize improvements to interview preparation flows, dashboard performance, and overall reliability.

Analytics cookies are optional. If you reject them, we do not initialize analytics scripts on your device. You can change this choice at any time using Cookie preferences in the site footer.

6. Functional Cookies

Functional storage remembers choices that personalize your experience, such as your preferred color theme (light or dark) and certain interface layout settings. These technologies are optional and are only used when you allow functional cookies.

7. Authentication Cookies

When you sign in, Gignix issues secure session cookies managed by our authentication layer (NextAuth). These cookies confirm that subsequent requests come from your signed-in session, protect against cross-site request forgery, and expire when you sign out or when the session reaches its security timeout.

Authentication cookies are classified as essential because they are required to access account-specific features such as interview history, job tracking, communication coaching, and billing settings.

8. Third-Party Cookies

Some features involve trusted third-party services that may set their own cookies or identifiers when you interact with them:

• PayPal — when you subscribe, manage billing, or change plans, PayPal may use cookies as part of its checkout and subscription management flow.
• Google Analytics — loaded only if you consent to analytics cookies.
• OAuth providers — if you choose social sign-in, the provider may use cookies during the authentication redirect flow.

Third-party services are governed by their own privacy and cookie policies. We recommend reviewing those policies if you use subscription checkout or third-party sign-in options.

9. Managing Cookie Preferences

When you first visit Gignix, you can accept all cookies, reject optional cookies, or customize your choices by category. Your selection is stored locally on your device so we can honor it on future visits.

You can reopen the preference center at any time from the Cookie preferences link in the website footer.

10. Browser Cookie Controls

Most browsers let you block or delete cookies through their settings. If you disable essential cookies, parts of Gignix — including sign-in and account features — may not work correctly. Blocking analytics or functional cookies through our preference center is usually sufficient if you only want to limit optional tracking and storage.

11. Updates to this Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when we add features, integrate new service providers, or change how optional cookies are used. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page shows when the policy was last revised. Material changes may also be described in our Privacy Policy or communicated through the product when appropriate.

12. Contact Information

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how Gignix uses cookies, contact us at support@gignix.com.

For broader data-handling practices, see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.