Cookie Policy
Last updated 25 August 2026 · Soulvaya Labs, Inc. · bellcowgm.com
Written in plain English. This document describes, accurately, how the product actually works. The corporate details — legal entity, state of incorporation, registered address and governing law — are settled and stated in the Terms of Service. Where anything here conflicts with the law that applies to you, the law wins. Questions or corrections: support@bellcowgm.com.
Bellcow does not set cookies.
Not analytics cookies. Not advertising cookies. Not "essential" cookies, either — our code never writes one. There is nothing in the app that reads or writes document.cookie, and there is no consent banner on this site because there is nothing to consent to.
What Bellcow does use is your browser's localStorage: a private key-value store that belongs to your browser, is never attached to a network request, and is never sent to us or to anyone else. This page lists every key we put in it and why.
What Bellcow stores in your browser
Every key is prefixed gm. so you can identify them at a glance in your browser's developer tools.
| Key | What it holds | Why |
|---|---|---|
gm.acct | Your session token and the email address you signed in with. | So you stay signed in for 30 days instead of typing a code on every visit. The token is sent to our own server as an Authorization header when the app calls our API — never to any third party. |
gm.yahoo | Your Yahoo OAuth access and refresh tokens, if you connected Yahoo. | So Bellcow can read your Yahoo leagues. These tokens are only ever in your browser — our Yahoo proxy is stateless and never stores them. Pressing Disconnect deletes this key. |
gm.intelmode | Which intelligence bundle the app is reading. | Remembers a display setting between visits. |
gm.ent | A cached copy of your entitlement (free or season pass, and when it expires). | So the app can render the right features instantly instead of blocking on a Stripe lookup. The authoritative copy is always on the server. |
Other gm. keys | Cached league state, your last-viewed league, and interface preferences. | So the app opens fast and remembers where you were. All of it is regenerated from your account if you clear it. |
None of this is a cookie. localStorage is not transmitted automatically with requests, is not readable by any other site, and cannot be used to track you across the web.
What Bellcow does not use
- No analytics. There is no Google Analytics, no Plausible, no Fathom, no Mixpanel, no Segment, no tag manager.
- No advertising or marketing pixels. No Meta pixel, no Google Ads tag, no LinkedIn or TikTok pixel, no retargeting of any kind.
- No session recording or heatmaps. Nobody is watching a replay of your mouse.
- No cross-site or cross-device tracking, and no data brokers.
- No third-party fonts that identify you. We load the site's typefaces from Google Fonts, which means your browser requests a stylesheet and font files from Google's servers; that request carries your IP address and user agent as any web request does. It sets no cookie and we receive nothing from it.
Cookies on pages that are not ours
Two places in the journey are hosted by someone else, and they run their own rules:
- Stripe Checkout. When you buy a Season Pass you are sent to Stripe's own hosted page. Stripe sets its own cookies there for payment processing and fraud prevention. That is Stripe's page under Stripe's privacy policy, and we neither control nor read those cookies.
- Yahoo sign-in. Connecting Yahoo sends you to Yahoo's own OAuth screen, which is governed by Yahoo's policies.
When you come back to Bellcow, you are back on a site that sets nothing.
What our host records
Netlify, which hosts the site and runs our serverless functions, keeps standard request logs — IP address, timestamp, path, status code, user agent. That is server-side logging, not a cookie, and we do not use it to profile you. It is covered in the Privacy Policy.
How to clear what we store
- Sign out in the app. That clears your session key from this browser.
- Disconnect Yahoo on the Yahoo card. That deletes
gm.yahoo. - Clear site data in your browser's settings for bellcowgm.com — in most browsers this is under Privacy, Site Settings or Storage. That removes every
gm.key at once. - Use a private window. localStorage in a private session is discarded when you close it.
Clearing local storage signs you out and drops the local cache. It does not delete your account or your leagues — those are on the server and come back when you sign in. To delete those too, see Cancellation.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
If your browser sends a Do Not Track header or a Global Privacy Control signal, there is nothing for it to turn off. We do not track, do not sell and do not share — that is already our only mode of operation, for everyone, whether or not you ask for it.
If this changes
If Bellcow ever introduces a cookie or an analytics tool, this page will list it, the Privacy Policy will name the processor, the "Last updated" date will move, and where the law requires consent you will be asked for it before anything is set. We are not going to quietly add a tracker and hope this page goes unread.
Contact
Questions about anything on this page: support@bellcowgm.com
Contact Support · Help Center · Privacy Policy