Last updated October 2, 2026

Cookie Policy

Cookies are small files a website asks your browser to keep, so it can remember things from one page or visit to the next. Preinvite uses as few as it can. There are no advertising cookies, and no other company sets cookies through Preinvite, unless you open the Buy Me a Coffee panel (see Other companies).

The cookies we use

• pi_session Necessary

  Keeps you logged in as you move from page to page, and stops forms being faked. Only set when you log in, or open the log-in, new-account or password-reset form.

  Lasts until you close your browser.

• pi_login Necessary

  Keeps you logged in on this browser, so you don’t have to log in every time. Deleted when you log out.

  Lasts 60 days.

• pi_consent Necessary

  Remembers your answer to the cookie question, so we don’t keep asking.

  Lasts 1 year from your last visit.

• pi_vid Optional

  Only if you choose “Allow cookies”: a random ID, so our visit counts can tell someone coming back from someone new. It says nothing about who you are, and it isn’t shared with anyone.

  Lasts 1 year from your last visit.

Guests who just open an event page and sign up get none of these, unless they answer the cookie question.

Counting visits without a cookie

If you choose “Only necessary”, we still count your visit, but without a cookie: your internet address and browser are turned into a code that can’t be turned back, and the code changes every day. That lets us count you once a day without following you from one day to the next. The Privacy Policy explains what the counts include.

Other things kept in your browser

• pi_app_later Necessary

  Only after you press “Not now” on the pop-up about notifications: remembers when, so it doesn’t ask again for a few days. Kept in your browser’s own storage, never sent to us.

  Kept until you clear your browser’s data.

• pi_push_off Necessary

  Only after you turn push notifications off on a device: remembers it, so the pop-up doesn’t ask you to turn them on again there. Kept in your browser’s own storage, never sent to us.

  Kept until you turn them on again, or clear your browser’s data.

• Service worker Necessary

  For hosts who are logged in: a small script from Preinvite that your browser keeps, so it can show a notification when someone signs up, even with the site closed. It does nothing else.

  Kept until you clear your browser’s data.

Other companies

Our pages load their fonts from Google Fonts. That doesn’t set any cookies, but your browser connects to Google to fetch the fonts, so Google receives your internet address.

Our pages also show a Buy Me a Coffee button, for anyone who’d like to support Preinvite. The button doesn’t set any cookies, but your browser connects to Buy Me a Coffee to fetch it, so they receive your internet address. If you click it, the panel that opens is Buy Me a Coffee’s own page. It may set its own cookies, and Buy Me a Coffee’s privacy and cookie policies cover them.

Changing your choice

You can change your answer at any time:

Cookie settings

The same button is at the bottom of every page. You can also delete or block cookies in your browser’s settings, but if you block the necessary ones, you won’t be able to log in.

Changes and questions

If the cookies we use change, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. Questions: privacy@preinvite.me.